Resource Log 18/Reflection

Pausch, R. (2007). The Last Lecture. Retrieved on Feburary 28, 2009 from http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184&ei=zeW2Sfu3M5K-rwKWj-yjDQ&q=Randy+Pauch&emb=1.

This is a very touching video. Randy Pausch was a professor who taught at Carnigie Mellon and specialized in virtual reality. He passed away of terminal cancer after this video was made. The reason I included it in my resource was that I was in awe of his constructivist approach and the way he motivated students to create these amazing projects. What he seemed to do is give students guidelines then allow them to add their own to it and take it as far as they could. He had students work in teams and in one of his classes he started to have them preform their virtual worlds live in front of an audience. He mentioned that part of the presentations was having an interactive audience. I think the strongest thing I saw was how he motivated his students and was enable some of them to get jobs where they were able to apply their experience. Although the video it not about his teaching methods per sey, it seemed to apply and reminded me about many concepts we are learning in class.