I want to deepen my knowledge, eLearning is familiar to me, but there is always something to learn more. Meaningful is my experience, maybe the courses I have done give something to this team too. Especially the wiki courses I´ve made.
What I would like to add is the pedagogical aspect: that is what I need to learn the most! Different technologies to set up a course are quite familiar and I think the management side is easy to me :)
What resources will I need: What software tools and resources I am going to use? Resources can be people, different artifacts, materials.
I most definitely need my team! I have already done one group work almost alone in the autumn ;) I will need my laptop, Internet connection, Firefox, Word, Excel, Photoshop..
Peer evaluation and discussions are to be important.
What is also needed: blogs, wikis, Skype, email, Doodle (a new thing for me, making polls).
How will I do it: What is my strategy to achieve my objectives? What is the order of my actions? How will I use different resources in my actions?
I believe some planning is to be done with Word and Excel, but maybe we also will use wiki or something (LATER EDIT: Google Groups). Laptop is the artifact to work with and I need Internet connection and Firefox to keep contact, deliver material and so on. With Photoshop I most likely do some pictures or something.
I will read the course materials, join the discussions with my team, do all the weekly assignments and with the help of these join the design of our team´s own course.
Evaluation criteria: How do I know that I was successful? Develop measurable criteria to evaluate your activities in respect of your objectives.
Well, the team will give feedback. And I´m quite harsh to myself as usual ;) I will rely on straight feedback, I will give myself points or something.
The peer evaluation will hopefully be lively :) And I believe the facilitator will guide me.
Self-reflection: Did I achieve my objectives? Use the criteria what you developed to assess how well did you work. Reflect, what worked and what did not?
For now we have been doing some planning. Of course I suspected a bit more activity, but as it has been seen so many times it´s so damn difficult. Maybe I should really study how to activate people to do group works via Internet / webcourses. Finding some successful ways would really help many!
The current situation is better, I´ve managed to get a babysitter on daytime :) These first months with a baby have shown me that there is no planning anymore.. Just have to do things when it´s possible. Evenings seem to be the hardest (the baby is in her most demanding), at daytime I have time to study since the baby usually sleeps a long nap. I would have enjoyed doing more, but I just have to settle with this I´ve got. The guys have been so hyperactive that I have troubles following them and that is really new to me!
Google groups didn´t work that well, somehow it was very plastic or something. Wiki has worked out much better even though they are not that much different. Little things count :) Doodle´s polls are easy, del.icio.us got me confused at first, Skype has worked well as usually. We´ve really used a lot of different softwares and services!
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Based on the comments
At the beginning of the course I felt I´d do a lot as usual, be the one who does things when others don´t have time or loose interest or something.. The surprise was quite big when I noticed that I don´t have the time to be the one anymore. Luckily in this group there are two very active fellows :) And I ended up kind of being late and fell back, I lost the sense of "what is the current situation". After that I´ve been more or less confused, trying to catch up. Still am.
My objective to the group was to participate a lot, be in the middle of the actual thing. I ended up commenting to GoogleGroup/wiki/blogs, adding some links to del.icio.us, collecting something about wikis.. Those (wikis) are kind of what I was planning to give to this group and I actually did write something about my experiences, but so much more could have done.. But I will rise again! There are still weeks left so now my objective is to give as much as possible to this next task, evaluating.
EDIT:
Well, you can see that I tried, check the history of Formative evaluation page in the wiki.. All deleted what I tried to put in there. Well, at least I created one page to there.
So I´ll stay as a commentator, try to suggest things to every part of the course. Discuss. And try to find some useful materials and so on.
I just have to settle for the grade I get.
Well, now I´m trying to make our course visible and be part of the gang to produce the evaluation poll / questions.
2 comments:
would you think in the group task context, what is your objective to do there?
I think a bit more precise aspects of whwat and how you do as part of the group could be elaborated. For example: if the group has decided to collect certain materials, what you feel you will collect and why, how it relates with your general course objectives.
Also, if you detailize hwat you do for the group, it is clear to see did you do it in the end.
It has been a good experience working with the group where are people from different backgrounds and situations (read babies)
I have read most of your blog posts and i think that your self evaluation is quite objective. I think you are very self-directed learner and in this new situation with the child you demonstrated it very well.
What concerns of collaborative learning - it seems to me that sometimes the challenges that are pushing you from the usual track (read where YOU DO ALL FOR GROUP)and coping with them are the main thing what we actually learn.
On my opinion your adaptation to collaborative mode where you are not in leader role didnt look so bad from aside. I could always feel your presence in the team and see your actual contributions.
The self critical reflections have given a good insight that you are thinking about the issues. Can we really see what we learned? I think not before application of new competences in new situations.
I have given you the highest grade.
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