Edited by Stefan Install, Sunday 20 February 2011 at 18:33
It has been a long time since I actually wrote a blog. As a self-confessed early adopter I started a personal blog back in 1999 which I updated pretty much daily for a few years but I started running out of things to say and it petered out; eventually I and wound it down in 2008. For a while it had mainly been about the social side of blogging and that had largely migrated to facebook anyway.
This is different however, this is a blog with a clear purpose, a blog to document and share my journey through H800.
The technology aspects of this course hold no fear for me as I am a home-based worker and a bit of a geek so webinars and podcasts are everyday fare for me. What is un-nerving though is the everyday aspect of participation in education i.e. assessment. It is 16 years since I last sat an exam or wrote an essay that would be marked and scored. I write reports and white papers as part of my job and people form opinions based on those and I'm fine with that but a grade...?
Of course work has just started to get really busy now that the module is due to start so I will be juggling a lot of conflicting activities over the coming months. For that reason I thought I'd use a little Sunday morning down-time to do some background reading and organise my notes and activities in OneNote, my personal knowledge management tool without which I fear I would know or remember very little. Oh how dependent on technology I have become!
Back to (the old) school
It has been a long time since I actually wrote a blog. As a self-confessed early adopter I started a personal blog back in 1999 which I updated pretty much daily for a few years but I started running out of things to say and it petered out; eventually I and wound it down in 2008. For a while it had mainly been about the social side of blogging and that had largely migrated to facebook anyway.
This is different however, this is a blog with a clear purpose, a blog to document and share my journey through H800.
The technology aspects of this course hold no fear for me as I am a home-based worker and a bit of a geek so webinars and podcasts are everyday fare for me. What is un-nerving though is the everyday aspect of participation in education i.e. assessment. It is 16 years since I last sat an exam or wrote an essay that would be marked and scored. I write reports and white papers as part of my job and people form opinions based on those and I'm fine with that but a grade...?
Of course work has just started to get really busy now that the module is due to start so I will be juggling a lot of conflicting activities over the coming months. For that reason I thought I'd use a little Sunday morning down-time to do some background reading and organise my notes and activities in OneNote, my personal knowledge management tool without which I fear I would know or remember very little. Oh how dependent on technology I have become!