Ok! I've finally finished the Course - what an amazing learning curve. Throughout this journey I experienced a myriad of emotions: hesitancy, frustration, pride, relief, confusion, amazement, excitement and finally success - thank you for providing me with this opportunity!
A few suggestions from the perspective of someone who subscribes to the "KISS philosophy"
* It was easier to create all the Accounts in the initial stages rather than as I went through each Module and DEFINATELY download the template in the First Steps to record passwords etc.
* Future participants would benefit from completing the Course with a buddy or a group of people so that they could bounce ideas off eachother and provide support (I really struggled at times to complete tasks on my own)
* I found that I became overwhelmed with information at times when there were a lot of Youtube clips or other links provided within Modules and then lost my direction. Could they be reduced to cater for "IT Challenged" people like myself?
* Future participants need to know that PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE is what they need to do in order to become more confident with all the new skills.
Finally, the tools that I found most beneficial to me within an educational setting include: Blogging, Bubble.us, Google docs, Digital Storytelling, Delicious and the Blooms Digital Taxonomy Map.
Thanks again!
Brid Bowers
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Hi Brid,
ReplyDeleteWow! Fantastic effort - you have learned heaps. I'm so proud of you. This blog is a really honest account of your experience stumbling through Web 2.0 and your reflections about its application to Teaching and Learning have been very insightful. Now we may be able to motivate others to have a go too.
Cheers