4th workshop Thursday, July 27, 2006

Thursday, July 27, 2006
4th workshop

We're at our 4th workshop and I had no idea how much I had learned in this time. Listening to my fellow students present their project made me realise how much info has been observed and used. Thanks to Sean & Marlene.

Notes on this weeks session.
Salmons model of online learning:
Access & motivation--Setting up system anc accessing, welcoming and encouraging.

Online socialisation--Sending and recieving messages Familiarising and prividing bridges between cultural, social and learning environments.

Information exchange--Searching personal software, facilitating tasks and suporting use in learning materials.

knowledge construction--Conferencing, Facilitating process.

Development--Prioviding links outside closed conferences, Supporting responding.

Guest Speaker: Michael Coghlan
Michael went over salmon 5 step in depth. very informative. Role of the Facilitator was a helpfull chart. His information was quite usefull and real, gave food for though, good messages from his experiences. Encouraged us to step out of comfort zone within reason.

My learning update

Well I'm back and have just finished downloading skype and then phoned a friend in Sydney to see if it worked and woohoo it did!. This will make my overseas calling easier. I have also finished recording and then like the show off I can be, sent some recordings via email to family and friends..Just to look clever..
As the school holidays are upon us I will try and explore some more.Still havent figgered out how to put music to my website yet although must admit havent realy looked into it... all suggestions welcome!

Still plodding alone and enjoying the learning however finding I'm isolating myself with this little puter and not doing any of the things I usually do..must create a time management tool to drag me away.

New York from Ellis Island

first shots always the hardest

Well here goes, I've just created this here little gem, well I think it is as I'm very new at all this techno stuff, however am beginning to enjoy it as I learn more..dont want to become a rambler so am going to leave it here for now until I'm not so nervous about where this is going to end up!
Now I dont care !
Well when I first started e learning I was excited to find I would be learning so much about new tools and technology, now I find when I get on this here little computer time runs away and if I'm not carefull before I know it its the wee hours of the morning..anyone got any ideas how to keep track of time whilst exploring and learning?
I found once I got the hang of things its not that hard and my patience is getting better, less choice words are flowing out the mouth. I'm to tired to think straight now been on this thing for hours tonite.