EMIM / E-Learning / Week 9 Reflection

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
I enjoyed the conversations about people´s experiences - again ;)

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Our group is really active in our wiki :)

3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Noup.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
Lot´s of reflecting about other´s experiences.

5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog & Moodle, our team´s Google group (mainly just reading since we´ve moved to a wiki), wiki and now we have also a del.icio.us account.

6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
In wiki with the participants, email.

EMIM / E-Learning / Assignment 7

From the perspective of my tasks in our workgroup, what did I learn from theoretical materials, how to make/use the course materials/activities/assessment/tools?
Well, have to say that we are still in process so much that I have to get back to this subject later..

Later:
My tasks ended up to be more of a commentator, link collector, wiki-specialist.. I thought I would have been maybe the pedagogical "expert" or something but.. Maybe I should have been more offensive.. But that is not my style. Well, luckily I have studied eLearning quite a lot, 25ECTS points in university level + around 10 in lower level, so I don´t feel that I missed now something important.

EMIM / E-Learning / Week 8 Reflection

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
I enjoyed the conversations about people´s experiences.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
It was very nice to chat with the group! And also to see that in our Google group we have some discussion all the time.

3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Noup.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
This week we discussed a lot of the group work itself, about the use of blogs and wikis and so on.

5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog & Moodle, our team´s Google group and Skype. Now we also have a wiki

6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
In Google group with the participants. We also had a Skype-chat on Sunday 20.4. :)

EMIM / E-Learning / Assignment 6

Explain, which type of learning environment is best suitable for your e-learning course?
Our group/team decided to use wikis and blogs. Wiki would be the "home", where are all the materials and so on and the students will have personal reflection in blogs. The topic of our course is blogs and how to use them, that is why the students also need to actually use a blog. So the course is about basic concrete skills in setting up and using blogs and also skills to use these technologies in a pedagogically correct manner.

We will use behavioristic way of learning in the beginning since we want everybody to be at the same level with knowledge and skills. Then we will also use the constructivistic approach since part of the course is about letting people to learn through experience.

From our team´s Skype-chat:
"I think what we could say about the latter iterations would be that we'd give the learners some basis which they could found their learning process to obtaining these skills and also try them out to find out the ways that suite them"

EMIM / E-Learning / Week 7 Reflection

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Selecting a suitable learning environment. We already have chosen to use blogs, but in general.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Different learning environments though Moodle, WebCT and some others are already familiar to me.

3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Noup.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
Blogs and wikis can also be used as learning environments. In a way. You just need to have some other ways to for example measure the activity and give rates and so on.

5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog & Moodle and our team´s Google group.

6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
In Google group with the participants.

EMIM / E-Learning / Week 6 Reflection

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
How to use Google´s groups ;)

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Finally our team really starts to work!

3. Was there something you didn't quite understand and want to know more about it?
Noup.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week's activities raised for you?
I told about my experience with wikis to my team. Now we are going to test blogs as a way of learning.

5. Which tools did you use this week, explain what was the purpose of using these tools (e.g. social talk, to regulate my team activities, to work on documents)?
This blog & Moodle and Skype and Google group.

6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
Via Skype with Ani i Lyubo and one thought with Kai Pata ;-) And in Google group with the participants (discussion, editing materials).

EMIM / E-Learning / Assignment 5

What are the best ways of finding a social network of your interests?
At least it´s a big job to do ;) You could start with Google, search for for example articles and blogs about the subject. Through this you get at least some idea of the situation. From one blog you most likely find links to some others and soon you have a kind of social network; at least you know who writes about the subject. Then just get familiar with them. Maybe even Facebook could be helpful?

From this week´s materials:

"Online learning is at the cusp of a transformation that ought as well to inform social networking: the transition from a centralized, institution-based system depending on a top-down structure and rigid standards to a decentralized, grassroots system of creation and sharing based on informal and ad hoc standards."
Source

Sounds good, let´s do that! :) ;)

Social networking websites
Web2.0 tools
(Thank you Kai!)