My Final Post- The Instructional Videos

This is my final post for EDM310. I have really enjoyed this class and my teacher. I truly believe Dr. Strange was right about acting as a coach. That is how his teaching is reflected on students and it has put me more at ease in the classroom. I have really felt like he wants his students to do well in his class and has gone above and beyond to make himself available and devote himself to us entirely when we needed help. I learn best this way if someone is there to guide me from beginning to end, and that's exactly what he did. Every week he updated the class blog so there would never be any confusion with assignments or a failed attempt to seek his help on a project because you could always contact him through this.
Every time we learned something new he would posted a home-made video repeating what he just taught us, either so the students could go back and learn it all over again if they forgot and use it to practice, or if they were absent one day and missed class. These videos were on the Internet so you could watch them anytime, and when you needed to study. I personally watched them over and over and was very grateful that they were there. They really helped me a great deal. They were so detailed and you could even stop and start them to learn at your own pace. He always explained things very thoroughly. I sometimes learned more through those than in class because i could stop and start them to listen again. Computers and technology can be very stressful and frustrating just as much as helpful sometimes, and he made sure he told us explicit instructions so everything would always come out right. If you watched the videos and did everything step by step as he explained it you couldn't go wrong, and that was comforting. I like classes where you can be certain about whats going to be right or wrong on a test or project. He didn't leave us guessing on anything. Everything was right there in front of us and all on the access of any computer. I really learned a lot and am all for the use of the instructional videos. I watched almost all of them multiple times and they were a huge help.