We hope you are in good health and still going strong in your Mphil HSE journey! We suspect everyone is enmeshed in their research assignment at the moment – good luck for that process.
Our e-Learning module starts in 12 days’ time and we just wanted to give you a heads-up so that you can have the most meaningful module experience possible. Our experience from last year showed very clearly that getting out of the starting block was the most difficult thing to do and some colleagues only got blogging and commenting and working on their own e-learning intervention in week 2. Once going everyone found the process enlightening and very exciting.
We want to give you a chance to “hit the ground running” come Monday 30 September and that is why we are asking you to do the following two very simple tasks:
1. Log on to your own blog (the one you created in February) with your Gmail account details. In case you forgot, your blog can be found in the right-hand colom of this blog.
2. Read the blog post with ideas you made in February and write another one reflecting on your expectations for the module.
That is it for now! Please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
Warm rEgards
JP (jpbosmanATsun.ac.za) , Steve (walshATsun.ac.za) and Lianne (lkeillerATsun.ac.za)
Hi JP, Steve and Lianne, as I said at the beginning of the year, I have started a gynae FB page, the outcomes for which were hazy at best; not considered at worst! The one major problem I have is that the useful links I and others put up become swallowed up with all the millions of FB status updates. Can one turn off news feeds etc. on FB?
ReplyDeleteHi Chivaugn
DeleteI'll respond directly to this question on your blog but think it's worth saying here that I like the questions that you're asking, questions that will hopefully lead to a thorough analysis of your e-learning intervention. Happy blogging!
Some glitches:
ReplyDelete1. The Youtube ADDIE video on BB won't open- have tried on Mac and laptop.
2. The Traxler article (Traxler, J. (2009), Learning in a mobile age. International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 1(1),1-12.) is not available through SUN libraries. Does anyone have a hard copy that can be scanned for us?
@Chivaugn - Thank you for finecombing the materials and pointing out the two issues.
ReplyDeleteWrt the ADDIE video on Webstudies: I have now replaced the AVI video with an MP4, it should work now (if the embedded video does not play, feel free to click the Download the video link below the vidoe. I am sure this will play on your computer.
Wrt the Traxler article: Apologies for referencing an article that is not available through the SUN library profile. For mobile learning you can look at the following article: • http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/5229/
I ask the other facilitators - or fellow students - to come up with a response or feedback on making Facebook more useful and less of a "deluge".
TThanks for indeed "hitting the ground running". Let's design and so improve our students' and our own leanring!