Cognitive psychology and Instruction and my spring semester,,,

I would say that my first semester at SIUE was successful! Although I only had two classes (one of which, I had a lot of experience in: web design), getting back into the academic groove felt good! In fact, this blog arose out of the web design class, but instead of leaving it to whither on the magnetic platters of blogger.com's servers, I'll still use it to help guide myself through the study of instructional design and learning technologies. I think its reflective nature will reinforce the lessons/skills I'm developing...and there is another reason, too...but I'll explain that later.

This semester, I enrolled in a one hour design studio class, an instructional systems design course, and a psychology of learning course. As a requirement for the latter class, we are told to keep a journal of our thoughts about our textual readings. Ok, you busted me, that's my "other reason" for keeping this blog alive: well, it's more of a motivating reason. I intended to keep updating this blog, but would I have really kept it alive?! Don't know! Rock on!