In general, I found this glass very useful. I absolutely plan to use several of the tools mentioned in the class in my own work, in particular I've already started putting Zotero to use for Firefox, and I'm really liking some of the things that I can do with WEFT QDA. I'm not entirely sure when I will have the opportunity to use Audacity, but I love all of the things that it can do, in particular clearing out background noise to make transcriptions easier on the ears. I'm not a fan of Windows Moviemaker, I admit, and probably won't use it in in the future. It's a very standard and widely available tool, but I found myself frustrated with its lack of user-friendliness (ironic for a Windows product) and it doesn't actually seem to be all that compatible with my video recorder, which led to much frustration. Other than that, all of the tools seemed useful, and it will take a while and my own experimentation to find out which ones are the best for me.
As far as the course content itself, I found it immensely helpful. The walkthroughs for the technology were clear, comprehensive, and responsive to my concerns, and I came out of each class feeling that I had a really good idea of where to start with each piece of technology. I enjoyed the assignments, particularly the encouragement to play around with the tools for ourselves; I'm still sad that I couldn't get NVivo to work, however.
All in all, this was a very useful and entertaining course. Honestly, I would have liked for it to be a full quarter long and go in more depth with some of the programs, particularly the analysis tools.
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