Monday, 7 September 2009

In this activity you are asked to write a short reflection on your first impressions...

Ok, first impressions...
  • Finding it difficult to know exactly what im meant to be doing over the next few weeks for unit 1. I think this is because in H800 we had specific activities to achieve. Its possibly starting off slow to get the wide variety of people on the course up to speed.
  • As expected there is lots to read, and it seems to be dotted all over the place. I know that im going to miss something.
  • There is already a lot of discussion on the forums - some people are very keen. Its great that people are willing to share their thoughts and ideas it makes the course so much more interesting and valuable. I was reflecting the other night how my H800 course would have been totally different with a different set of people, or if people were not as enthusiastic to collaborate. I tried to post a quick "hello" only to find that i have 'read access' to the forums which is frustrating. Ive logged a call with support, they have 3 days to sort it.
  • Its nice to see a wide variety of people from different backgrounds, ive noticed some people from the NHS and from universities. Its going to be good to share perspectives.
  • Not really looked much into the content as yet. Its mostly about defining the e-learning professional, and getting to grips with the course tools. I think im going to investigate using google docs for my portfolio system. Some people have done some interesting things with google sites which i need to look into.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Alan - good to see you on this course also. I didn't realise you were taking it. I agree on the first Unit. Compared to what we just went through on H800 it is very light for the first two weeks.....will give me more time to complete the ECA. I've started looking at some of the ePortfolio readings in Unit2 when I'm travelling though. All said, I think this should be a less stressful experience.

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  2. Hi John- cheers for the comment, its great to see a name I know! Yes I signed up at the last minute, took me ages to decide to carry through, im pleased I did now. Its turned out nicely with the workload for unit 1 and the H800 ECA. I actually emailed my tutor to ask if I was missing something! I need to look into these e-portfolios in a bit more depth, however I feel drawn just to use Google docs/sties.

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