I am absolutely thrilled to have met several people already on teleconference, email and on blogs. Seven out of fifteen people have set up their blogs and introduced themselves and also notified the link on the wiki Discussion. Nine people have posted introductions on the wiki Discussion. This is a wonderful start. Don't forget to click the watch tab on the wiki so you get an alert when someone has posted. It is great if people can go back to the Discussion regularly and respond to people.
Also keep an eye on others' blogs so you can comment on what people are posting. Watching each others blogs is easier if you set up an account on Bloglines and add all the blog links there - then you only need to watch to see if the numbers change. Be sure and access some help on using a RSS reader such as Bloglines if you need it. I have decided only to have a link to participant blogs on the course blog, rather than a feed coming in there. Note: To read the writing on the image just click on it.
This week the topic is all about quality.
The presentation this week will give you an overview of the importance of evaluation and the relationship to quality. Hopefully it will stimulate some ideas for you to use in your evaluation project. There is also some light reading on the importance of evaluation, and some questions to respond to on your blog. If you look in the resources area there are several online journals which you might like to start exploring.
The first two weeks are light to allow people time to get set up and confident using the course wiki and blog, and to start posting on their own blogs. It is okay to move faster through the schedule if and when you have the time. You will find you will move through faster some weeks, and this is good, so when you need to take some time out, for whatever reason, you will not get left behind.
6 comments:
Hi Bronwyn
Do we need any special software to run the My Plick presentation? (It could just be that I can't access it at work and need to try at home). I'm not having much joy with technology at the moment.
Hilary
Hi Bronwyn, Not too sure which is the best way to contact and communicate with you? Apologies but i won't be able to make it tomorrow night - have work in Hamilton 2morrow then am off to Auckland for the night. Also - I don't have a microphone. Is there anything else I'm going to need. Have never used my computer for talking with people so will have to get it set up for this - any advice would be gratefully recieved. Thanks heapz. Rika
Hi Bronwyn, Not too sure which is the best way to contact and communicate with you? Apologies but i won't be able to make it tomorrow night - have work in Hamilton 2morrow then am off to Auckland for the night. Also - I don't have a microphone. Is there anything else I'm going to need. Have never used my computer for talking with people so will have to get it set up for this - any advice would be gratefully recieved. Thanks heapz. Rika
Well you can tell i'm new at this - couldn't get this to work at all yesterday or this morning and now i manage to post my comment twice! How about that!!! :] :] Rika
hilary
myplick is web-based and it may be treated as a pop-up website if your work security is tight. It depends on which browser you are using - Internet Explorer you can add preferred websites via Tools/Internet options. click the security tab then sites button and add the website address to the area called Trusted sites.
Let me know if you use another web browser.
Bronwyn
rika
you can email me at the email I contacted you on originally or via the Blackboard email or on here is fine too. also the wiki discussion area is a good place. no worries if you cannot make any of the "real time" sessions and thanks for letting me know. Some people like using a web cam for computer (web) conferencing but that is very optional. If you want to try it out now is the ideal chance of course.
yes the x2 posting is what happens when you think the thing isn't working - you are not alone in that and I have done it and also lost comments when the thing failed. I always select my post and copy now just in case it happens again. Mostly it doesn't.
Bronwyn
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