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Edited by Sue Capener, Saturday, 29 Aug 2009, 18:58

Time to celebrate my first thousand words! They're pretty much the right words though, as Eric Morecambe said, not necessarily in the right order. In fact, the words are going to have to change quite a bit too, I fear. But I'm sure I'll speed up.

I'm doing an evaluation of blogs and vodcasting as my two technologies, and I'm nearly done with blogs for now. There are so many ways of assessing their use so I'm finding it extremely difficult to come to any concrete conclusions. I have to keep on dragging myself back to specifics. The only way to make progress seems to be to pin everything I say down and forget the fact that I'm actually ignoring the vast majority of what has been written on this subject.

Still, I'll be glad when I get on to video as that's what I'm going to do for my learning design, so it's going to be a lot more interesting to assess.

Back to decide on word number 1023 and the other 4977, I guess. It's going to be a long bank holiday weekend!

 

 

 

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Well, it's a start

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Edited by Sue Capener, Saturday, 29 Aug 2009, 18:51

Just got going on my ECA (End of Course Assessment, or final project) today and have rewarded myself liberally with a highly unhealthy snack that I'm ashamed to describe.

Two paragraphs of my introduction completed. Writing intro's is wonderful: everything seems so clear and straightforward - I've outlined the picture, now all I need to do is colour it in.

This is, of course, a cruel illusion. Before I finish this work of devastating acuity, insight and creativity, I shall rub out the outlines countless times and re-draw them, having recklessly coloured over the edges, or found I don't have suitable colours to fill some areas in.

Once I actually settle down to write I always wonder why I've been procrastinating. It's actually fun, I rediscover; I'm going to enjoy this! About 1000 words in, I experience mild frustration, at 2000 words crushing boredom; self-hate at 3000 words becomes despair at 4000, and at 5000 words all emotions are subordinate to a grinding determination to reach the target of 6000.

Somehow it will be done!

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