Last few days of my Masters in Online and Distance Education … bring on the coffee :)
by I tried to do myself a nice motivational picture in my coffee break … Sadly it looks more like I am banging my head against a brick wall … Oh dear ….
Tag: H800
Digital Technologies, Experience and Evidence | The final bit of my MA ODE journey …
I have just counted up the days left until the deadline for the final piece of coursework for my MA … I have 57 days left until submission deadline … blimey best get cracking then … I’ve got to pick two digital technologies that have played an important role in my journey this year so I have chosen to do mine on Microblogging and use of Synchronous Audiographic Web Conferencing … I can evidence from …
Week 23: Meaning-making and metaphors / A3: Thinking about your own learning
Think about your own learning – the resources and tools you use, where and when it takes place What is your experience of being a learner? I consider myself to be an open practitioner, and by the same vein an ‘open’ learner. I think the whole idea of being able to learn in an open and honest way suits my learning style and personality. I think this may have had something to do with the …
PLE – Personal Learning Environment
Week 21 / 22 Activity 2g – Write a blog post on personal learning environments and where you think they are heading. Incorporate a representation of your own PLE Here is my mind map of my personal learning environment. Using Martin Weller’s blog post on his PLE example as a framework I have tried to incorporate the main tools that I currently use. I remember doing this exercise a while back for another course ( before …
Week 18 Activity 1 : What is digital scholarship and why does it matter ?
Activity :Read Chapter 1, ‘Digital, networked and open’ Martin Weller’s Book The Digital Scholar Weller summarises the key changes as: digitization of relevant content online social networks the range and variety of content via Twitter, blogs, news feeds and so on. Have your own practices, whether as a learner or as a digital scholar, changed as a result of the same three areas of impact of the internet? I would agree that my own practices as …
Yay I found my sketch book …
Was soooo delighted to find my sketch book behind the sofa today with my scribbled notes on the Kerawalla … Paper on Blogging and Richardson Paper on Student approaches to learning … Piccies here lest I lose it again 🙂 #knewtheyweresomewhere Also we were asked to reflect on our learner experience of blogging so here is a brief mind map of my initial thoughts about blogging ( a work in progress ! )
Week 16 Activity 4
Activity 4 Your decision Find blogs that interest and engage you. Share the urls in the forum or include them in your blog, explaining one or two things that you like about them. What a fab activity ! Well I already have several blogs identified on my own blog in my ‘ blogs I follow’ list and it is soooo hard to try and narrow these down for this particular activity. I think I will stick …
Deb is back … sort of
For those that know me well , you may recognise the significance of this little candle and therefore you will know and understand my absence over the last several weeks. Suffice to say it has been a very difficult few months and I have been kept busy with personal stuff so I haven’t been able to engage online as much as I would have liked. Anyhow, I am back ( sort of ) and this is the …
H800 Week 3 OU LIVE REFLECTIONS ( When Charlie met Harry …. ?)
Reflecting on the experience of the OU LIVE tutorial and breakout room discussion and using the questions provided as a prompt … ( Permission has also been kindly given by all those involved to refer to comments etc ) What were your experiences and feelings during the session? I enjoyed the whole experience of the OU Live Session in Week 3 with Janet, Adrian, Cathy and Gillian ( although we lost connection with Cathy at …
