I feel as if I’ve been a bit late with this week’s assignment but also a part of me saw that it was about assessment and I’d be lying if I said I was happy about it. I know that assessment and feedback is critical in our field but in my experience in the corporate […]
Week 5: Platforms and Technologies for #OCTEL
This week we had to reflect on Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory and answer the following questions: Reflect on whether you accommodate these learning styles in your teaching practice. Do the technologies you use help you achieve this? If so, how? Or do they hinder it? What tools relate to the quadrants of the diagram? Does the […]
Week 2: Teach the Web cMOOC
Mozilla Thimble Project with #TeachtheWeb I spent my Saturday afternoon in front of the PC (again) because my husband was watching the footy on TV. When the game is on, I clear out because it means obscenities being hurled at the umpires whenever any ball play goes against his football team. During these times, I […]
Week 1: Drilling Into TEL Concepts and Approaches for #OCTEL
This week’s entry on reflections of Technology and Learning Concepts and Approaches for the OCTEL MOOC have been interesting. In particular one video about how dentists are trained to drill a tooth through the use of sophisticated simulations. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTBJTgTLywE#t=0m25s] I hate going to the dentist at the best of times. When I’m in the chair, […]
Week 1: Introduction to #ocTEL
Just because I’m a sucker for punishment, I joined another 10 week cMOOC called Octel: The Open Course in Technology. (Actually, methinks I was on such a high with the Educational Technology MOOC #ETMOOC which recently finished that I just wanted to recreate that ‘buzz’ again). David Hopkin’s writes more about this course here. As […]
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Studying Children in Kindergarten
Last week I started another MOOC and in all honesty, between this #etmooc, #edcmooc, full-time job and family commitments, I’m struggling to squeeze it all in. However, true to my nature I do the best that I can and from what I’ve learned from MOOCs already is that, “don’t let them overwhelm you!” What has been […]
Slave to the Machines or the Crowd? – #edcmooc Reflections
I registered as a last minute afterthought for the e-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC (#edcmooc) on Coursera a couple of weeks ago. I saw the stream of tweets of people excitedly looking forward to this MOOC and thought, “did I miss something?” Previously, I registered for the Fundamentals of Online Education and Planning (#foemooc) because it […]
True Stories of Openness – The Challenge is On
This is a first. Not only will it be the shortest post I have written in my blog – but there are two video podcasts! Alan Levine (@cogdog) wants our stories about how sharing on the web has helped our lives. He wants to know what happened to you when you shared something on the […]
A Turbulent Mind
Lately I’ve had a turbulent mind. At the LearnX Conference a few weeks ago, it was described as being in ‘hyper-attention’ but I believe that this not the right definition for my state. Wikipedia describes hyper attention as a “cognitive style due to a generational shift in youngsters, therefore, having a short attention span, needing […]
Game On! Learning About Gamification on a MOOC
Some time ago I attended a Personal Learning Conference in Melbourne that was conducted jointly through Deakin University and the University of Aveiro Portugal. I was the “odd man out” being the only one from corporate attending a conference in a sea of academics – but I didn’t mind. In fact, that conference turned out […]