Showing posts with label IFI7139. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

WEEK 11: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION AND SELF-ASSESSMENT

Revise your personal learning contract if needed, considering what you have learned so far, what has gone differently from your last plans, how your personal learning environment has changed. Please start a new blog post for revision and keep the previous versions of the contract. Reflect on your study process and the course. Have you fulfilled your goals?

I am glad I particpated in e-learing course. Like I said previous posts I hadent experiences before. But know I know how to do e-learning prototype and I have experiences to work in international group. If I look back these weeks I really enyojed comparing e-learning courses individually.
In group work we created e-learing prototype for middle-aged people how learning about social-networking. In group work we had problem at the beginning, because everyone didint paricpated right time. But we experineced we must not meet every week to do group work. Everyone can give their part individually too. But ofcourse collobration is needful during group work. Also is important to test e-learing course at beginning already.
I want to thank my faciliator Terje how gave appropriate feedback, construct needful course and materials . Also I want to thank all my group members who teach me a lot about e-learning.


Assess your work based on your learning contract. What is the grade you deserve? This grade will be taken into account for your final gradeAssess your work based on your learning contract. What is the grade you deserve?
I think I will deserve C. I think I had some errors in posts and at the beginning writing to my contract I didint know what to expect this course. But I think I did good job anyway and I really enjoyed this course.

WEEK 10: FINAL COURSE PRESENTATION, GROUPWORK EVALUATION

What is your evaluation of this week's groupwork? (What did go well and what did not? How did groupwork influence fulfilling your personal learning contract?)

In this week we only gave a feedback what we had done. We gave a grade and feedback to we final prototype. Manys in group was agree with A, but finaly we grade or group work with B, because we didint achive the aims. In we group task I loved we topic. Was good idea to do e-learning to middle-aged people. We course prototype gave a overview main social networking, so middle-aged can choose appropriate social software which they can use longer in the future. In structure I like that we course tasks was in diffrent pages so that is simple to find easily place.

What was the most important thing you learned this week? What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?

In this week I read about formative evaluation. This module talk about test your course already when you finished and helping if you are achiving goals. If you dont handle this way it may be risk for goals, unintended consequences and may occur unpredictiable sitations. During testing is very important collobration and evaluation. What a test plan should include can read more in a module.

WEEK 9: COMPILING THE COURSE

What is your evaluation of this week's groupwork? (What did go well and what did not? How did groupwork influence fulfilling your personal learning contract?)

In this week we finished main part of course. Everyone finished their part. When I look back these weeks I liked to give more. Maiby I am not the activest people in the group. Despite of that I think everyone has a new experinces. I preciate Alice, Maibritt and Chiara work. They was very active person. By the way everyone gave something to group work, still:)

As Terje commented Chiara 9 week post we challenging situations, try out diffrent strategies
and working international group. Main challenge to me was to share my work and school tasks. I am satisfied I did my own tasks on e-learning course. But despite of that I feel I could to try more.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Week 6

Reflect and summarize on course readings in your personal Weblog: What do you consider as important elements in an e-learning course?

1.Objective-relevant content
2.access to course webpage, access to content
3.feedback
4.interface-easy to use interface, good tools design
5.evaluation-facilator evaluation

What was the most important thing you learned this week? What kind of questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?


I read Kai Pata presentation. For me was new instrutactional research term and models. Instrutactional research help study people more effectively. Instrutactional research use ADDIE model which can use in effective learing curriculum(bihaviorism) Also there is Kemp indrotactional design, which can use if group is bigger. RD2D use social constructive learning enviroments. There students involved development process. RD2D design progerss is a spiral.

In my groupwork I learned its hard to find right time to do groupwork. We cant meet appropriate time. We are diffrent people. Its difficult to find time to get togheter in Skype. Luckily we did gropup work appropriate time.

What is your evaluation of this week's groupwork? (What did go well and what did not? How did groupwork influence fulfilling your personal learning contract?)

As I said we didint find appropiate time to do groupwork together. Group work didint influence my fullfilling personal learning contract.

Describe what has changed in your personal learning environment and in group environment?

In my personal learning and in group work I do not use google apps. In group work we use PBWork, Skype and also Twitter and Facebookf for course design.

Sunday, March 28, 2010

IFI7139- 4 week

Week4:What is your evaluation of this week’s groupwork? (What went well and what did not? How did groupwork influence fulfilling your personal learning contract?)

Our group page http://tallinnuniversityprojects.pbworks.com/
We had first skype meeting where we discussed our home work. I think all went well, because everyone in group paricpate in homework.This week we had group work. We met the with group members in Skype. Was nice to do group work which was multicultural. However everything went well. Everyone did work and wrote own things to shared Google Docs document.

Explain, what are the components of course design.


Material-these must be cleared. Also there should be good grammatics and locigal designs.

Ofcourse there should be relavent topics.
Feedbacks- User get feedback by others learnens and facilators
clear interface- learnes dont be confused where they get needful learning objects
clear information- there are evaltion criteriars and goals, also tasks
involvment- I think its very important. Learners and facilator must be purposeful and
motivated to do many tasks

What was the most important thing you learned this week? What kind of

questions/ideas/experiences this week’s activities raised for you?
I have learned new methods. Most important thing what I have learend was how to do group work if you cant meet others

group members. For me it was first time do to group work in this way. One thing is how we get agreement which tools we can use. Second important thing is how management this group. I think I learned from every member something.

Describe what has changed in your personal learning environment and in group environment?

I think in my personmal learning environment nothing has changed. In group environment I am using collobration tools which I used before rarely.

Find at least one good and one bad example case of course design and reflect your opinions of these courses in your personal Weblog. Visit the blogs of your groupmates, read their reflections of course designs and add your opinions as comments about these courses.

I havent take part of following courses. I search them to topic which I have intrest and where I want to particpating.

Introduction to USA history
Information are well structured
Well-defined evaluation criteria
Well-defined goal
Information is cleared and its easy to read

Photoshop
Evaluation Criteria is missing
Course facilator is missing
A few information about Photoshop tools
Information hasent well structured I think this is information is not easy to follow.

example goals are defined almost in the end

IFI7139- 3 week

I have a read a 8. chapter „Developing team skills and accomplishing team projects online “ by Debora C. Hurst and Janice Thomas. In the beginning e-learing could could be negative aspects for learners if they are scare working in team. If they are scare they would fail when they are using new techchnologies. In this point is very important other group members supports and minimize a stress. That encourages take risks and overcome challenges in team work.
People also must sharing information about they inviduals commitments others group members. This helping predict project deadline and how difficult is complete project. Subsequentaly are points if team wants to work in succesful way.

1. The deadlines must be met. This project was important to all.
2. Whoever was best able to lead on a particular task would do so.
3. Each member would contribute 150% to this project, and
endeavor not to let the other team members down.
4. Team members would raise a flag (let others know about tasks
not likely to get done on time).
5. Team members would pitch in to complete work as needed.

In this week I introduced my group members via blogs. Also we pondered which gropuwork communication tool we can use. We decided to use PBWorks. For me it was new collobration tool.
Others weeks I will try to follow these 5 points:)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Reflect and summarize on course readings in your personal Weblog: What are the trends in e-learning and how do they influence online course design?

E-learing become popular. Student can choose appropriate programs and learning style. They cant be passive. In e-learing is very important collobration. E-learing helps grown students indepedencies to make choices and social skills.

One of the common e-learing trend that people who intrest something can work to togehter. If a student cares about something--if they have a passion for something--they can learn about it and they can actually produce work in the field and become a contributing part of that community.” (Hargadon 2008) The main thing is people cant be anymore passive. All people should make collobration.

Martin Weller believe that in the future have un-structured e-learning content managment systems. She belive the walled garden of the VLE provides a "trusted brand" (as Grainne Conole discussed at OpenLearn2007) which is very attractive to students. Otherwise, why would they want to pay us £3k a year for tuition - and then use Google?”

Most important things what I learned about was theorys for online learning. Which on students are in e-learing, how they behave there and how to teach them.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Introduction to IFI7139

My name is Ketlin Hiob and I am studying to become an informatic teacher in Tallinn University.

I live in Viljandi and for some time I live Tallinn also.
2009, I graduated from Haaplsau College of Tallinn University, where I studied an apply informatics.

I have worked with content managment systems before.For now I am teaching informatic to primary and secondary school.

I like to travel. Unfortunaly I have visited a few countries. I am sure in future this change. I love outdoor sport. Especially I like to running and skiing. My hobbie is IT where I like to use manys Adobe software.

I have used many social programs: Facebook, Orkut, Flickr, Twitter etc. Also I have used Wikiversity and Wikispaces.

I expect that I can ideas for my lessons and new skills as a leaner. Also I want to practising my English.