Assignment 10

What was your personal impression of participating such a course?

When I first selected the course I could not figure out how this could be carried out. It raised a question - “Do we really make a course by ourselves?”. Fortunately this was the way and it is a good way to learn thru practical experience. Overall the materials were helpful and our facilitator was always monitoring our process, which was very good, because she identified problems that would have stalled our course development process.

I must say that the active participation of the faciliator is very important in e-learning, this course made by realize that. So whenever I would like to design a course and carry it out I have to play a lot of online time to make sure that something will be learned during the course.

Overall I feel more confident about e-learning and it really helped to see the background of the courses, which very helpful as myself am doing mu masters degree via e-learning.

One good remark is not to use googlegroups, which I learned the hard way but which useful for the next participants of the course. I am very satisfied with course and a little less satisfied with my work but overall it was very useful and good.

Thank you everybody in our group and our facilitator for making this course worth studying.

All the best,

Mart

Assignment 9

How well could I fulfill my goals?
Actually at first I also wanted to do a lot but I ended with problems with Google groups and was not able to edit most of the things. After we started with our wiki at gunospaces I could work more. I commented there and also made a change concerning our methodology, grading, points and other. I must say that the finnish guys were totally active and have done a huge job, could not have done without them.

I evaluated others courses and also commented a lot on our prototype. Overall I’ve learned a lot about e-learning and the now the sky is clear and I understand what is needed to start a course.

Week 14

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Quiet week, writing reflection and assignments.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Seeing more of other groups work.

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more about it?
Yes, the ending was confusing a little, but read the blog of e-learning.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
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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)?
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6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
Blog and blogs.

Week 13

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Seeing that it is really important how to design the poll (eg what tools to use). Giving feedback to team 5 was really uncomfortable.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Evaluation of group 5 was hard. They had not defined what they need evaluation on.

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more about it?
No.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
Seeing what other groups have done gave me feeling how other groups have worked.

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)?
Blog & Moodle and guno (our wiki) and ohter groups wikis (googlegroups).

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

Sonja basically.

Week 12

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
Evaluation planning and the questionnaire spaces.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?
Well, the it was hard to find the the questions at first, because there were many places in guno were the these were mentioned, but no questions were visible,

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more about it?
Yep. At first I could not see any questions in our space used Later this problem was solved.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
That there are free tools that can be used for delivering questionaires, which is useful knowledge because it is hard to keep track all possibilities available on the web.

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)?
Blog & Moodle and guno

6. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?
Gunospaces, e-mail - about evaluation.

Updated contract

See link http://teldev.wu-wien.ac.at/M%C3%A4e/#

Week 8

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?

How evaluation process is used and how we are goingt o gather info what the student already know (essays).

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?

Nothing special to bring out.

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more bout it?

Yes. but we are discussing these alreadu on our group spaces, so the sky will be clearer soon.4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?

None

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)?

Our new groupspace - discussing via a forum like thing.

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

Once again a long meeting with Sami where we discussed general matters and concrete issues concerning the course design.

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?

That you should really test a learning environment thoroughly before using it. Difficult enviroments make the participation very low and very unmotivating.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?

Seeing that the googlegroups is not luckily the only solution for group work.

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more bout it?

A bunch of things. No way of saying all.

4. What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?

Why is the google groups so not user friendly. Other services are very usable, strange.

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)?

Our new wikispaces environment and Skype. Unfortunately I got mixed with the time zones, very embarrassing, so I could not participate in our first group chat. Fortunately now I know, just add 1 hour to my local time

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

Kai, Sami and Sonja -problems and group work.

Problems

Hello,

I have two problems - firstly I cannot view any of the topics in googlegroups. Page claims that I have logged on with another address and asks me kindly to change it. Well, when I accept changing the address nothing happens. And every time I try to view the posts it delivers me this page, very strange. Tried to google this problem all the answers are in google groups, where the same messeage pops up

Feed - I do not understand why my feed on http://htk.tlu.ee/elearning/martmae/ does not display any new posts anymore. There are about 3 - 4 posts which it does not show on this page.

reflection week 5

1. What was the most important thing you learned this week?
I ‘ve learned what is actually a learning contract and what is its purpose.

2. What was particularly interesting/boring in this week?

Intersting was to understand how the course compiles togehter from different parts (I know we had a reading in earlier weeks also) - it always helps to carry out the learned things practically.

3. Was there something you didn’t quite understand and want to know more about it? What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
Yes, I do not understand about the contract that we are supposed produce. Kai explained that mine was for the group and not for myself. Is the aim to reflect my point of view in the e-learning course or rather my share in our group work?

4. 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)?
My blog and iLogue for contract.

5. With whom did you communicate during this week, how many times, with which tools, and for what purposes?

Group activites on googlegroups but I cannot perform any edits, because there is a technical issues -(google seems not to understand that gmail and googlemail are the same e-mail addresses and when I try to change it nothing changes. Very strange.