Well, how good a feeling was it to get the first real assignment in. A great relief for me! Except for the usual self sobatage of course on the monday I made a mess of uploading it, gladly Lesley was on the ball and pointed me in the right direction.
I started reading Unit 5 on the tuesday, obviously I was delirious from the work on TMA01 !! Then I promptly forgot all about it until now, funnily enough even though I should be reading my case studies I was eager to post a blog tonight! I think it must be like surrogate class colleague, whereas normally I would have a chat with a friend about the course now all I have is good auld trusty blog!
I read some of Mr Waba's comments in his group work for Unit 5, he mentioned he had no "feeling" on how to write, in University he was very used to the style expected but here he's not too sure. I agree 100%. I usually have a good idea what mark/grade I'm heading for but in the OU context I'm not sure. I'm happy with the work I put into it and the resulting essays so we'll just have to see.
Another surprise was the work I had to put into the reflection part, and what a challenge it turned out to be. i was probably over-confident having written reflective pieces before, the difference hear is that we are being guided on our reflection, whereas before its been based on my initiative.
Finally I think I am still finding the online context of our research a definitive challenge. I've never used the Internet for formal research, I am much more comfortable with books. The Internet is a great tool obviously but not somewhere I've looked for "deep learning" (Moon, 2001), [that's a TMA01 joke
].There maybe something sub-conciously saying books are more real or serious, Lesley if you're watching I'd love your thoughts on this.
Talk later
K
