Hi Noralee:
First, I'm glad you feel the modules in ED105 are useful for you. I am always amazed that new ideas and varieties of methods constantly appear.
I'm find your comment about repetition interesting, because I personally feel this is one of the more underused (yet simple) tools we as tachers have at our fingertips.
Repetition is powerful. It works in sports and with atheletes. It works in theatrical and musical performance. Some will say that rote memory is a lower level of learning. I agree to an extent. What I would maintain is that through repetition, basic, fundamental information can be learned that will expedite the more complex spacial or critical thinking that is often required later on. We used repetition to learn our multiplication tables. Then, that foundation allowed the exploration into whole new and higher levels of math.
Just an observation. It seems time constraints has removed this from our curricula. But students can still practice it on their own.
Regards, Barry