I learned a great deal about Pressbooks, and my sense that this generation of students picks up technology very quickly was confirmed.

I learned that one advantage to Pressbooks is that it allows students to easily see each other’s work, which can be inspirational (and aspirational). This replaces the way I used to try to show good examples, which was copying and pasting them into Word docs and putting them in the module and hoping someone might read them. This might be way better – the test will be what happens at the end of the semester when they read and respond to each others’ work

I wish I could figure out a more efficient way for the students who pick up the tricks of the Pressbooks platform to tutor the rest of us. It’s difficult to do in class, where everyone is self-conscious and reluctant to claim expertise even when they’re getting further, more quickly, than others. Even harder when students are trying to do all their work at home, with no one to ask questions of in the moment.