Edited by Owen Barritt, Tuesday, 21 Oct 2008, 10:50
I started the activities for week 4 quite late, because I wanted to do the reflection activity from week 3 first.
The reading for this section was quite daunting when I looked at the first paper, which appears to be 27 pages long. It turned out the main part of the paper was only 16 pages and the rest was appendices and references and the other 2 papers were much shorter.
My aim is now to start the reading at the beginning of the week for sections with large amounts of research in order to allow more time, even if the actual activities wait until later in the week.
The activities this week included a brief "online discussion" activity where we posted what we found out to the discussion forum. Although there were some interesting things shared and it was interesting to see what Mitchell picked out from the same paper I read, the discussion was very much everyone making a blog-style post to the forum and no real discussion around it, which seems a shame.
I am now trying to get into the materials earlier in order to reply to people when they first post these comments in order to actually have a discussion on the topics which arise. We all seem at the moment to be working individually with very little discussion of our ideas.
The criteria was interesting to put together, as part of my work I reused the Penn State examples, because I felt it was important to include good and bad examples. Alan has suggested that I go back and replace these with my own examples to show greater understanding, which I will probably try to do over the coming weeks.
Week 4
The reading for this section was quite daunting when I looked at the first paper, which appears to be 27 pages long. It turned out the main part of the paper was only 16 pages and the rest was appendices and references and the other 2 papers were much shorter.
My aim is now to start the reading at the beginning of the week for sections with large amounts of research in order to allow more time, even if the actual activities wait until later in the week.
The activities this week included a brief "online discussion" activity where we posted what we found out to the discussion forum. Although there were some interesting things shared and it was interesting to see what Mitchell picked out from the same paper I read, the discussion was very much everyone making a blog-style post to the forum and no real discussion around it, which seems a shame.
I am now trying to get into the materials earlier in order to reply to people when they first post these comments in order to actually have a discussion on the topics which arise. We all seem at the moment to be working individually with very little discussion of our ideas.
The criteria was interesting to put together, as part of my work I reused the Penn State examples, because I felt it was important to include good and bad examples. Alan has suggested that I go back and replace these with my own examples to show greater understanding, which I will probably try to do over the coming weeks.