Blog Post #8

For this week we were assigned to watch Randy Pausch's Last Lecture. It is very inspirational because even though he was given only six months to live and he did not give up. He decides to give a lecture like it is the last lecture that he would give. He starts his lecture by talking about his childhood dreams and then goes into detail about them. The first one he talks about is being in zero gravity then he goes on a talks about when he wanted to be in the NFL. He said that he got more out of that dream than any other dream that he had even though he did not make it.

Later on he started teaching a 'Building Virtual Worlds' class. For college students this project seems like a good one for students to do. I like how he would change up the groups every couple of weeks because it gives the students a chance to meet and get to know different classmates and the students can also learn different things for the virtual world that they have to make. Some students may be able to make their virtual world a way that the others can not. This project would be a great way for students to learn from each other and also teach others. You will not be able to know everything about something and it is okay that you do not know it all. There is always something that you can learn form things. Learning as you go is a great way to learn things because you are actually able to do it all on your own and you do not have someone telling you step by step on what to do. Doing things on your own will stick to you alot better than just taking instructions.