E Learning Week Conclusion

E Learning Week Conclusion

Have I achieved my learning goals? How did I make that happen? Were my learning strategies effective and efficient? How might they be improved?

I think over the last week, I have managed to achieve some, if not most of my learning goals for ICT in the first two weeks. Firstly, I have learnt to blog and navigate through a Wiki page. Honestly, I am quite impressed with how much technology can help to facilitate learning. However, new teaching methods will almost always come bundled with new problems. One problem that stared right into my face was the fact that I am not familiar with both Wiki and blogging. I got by through tertiary education without ever needing to be involved with either Wiki or blogging these concepts are very new to me. Nevertheless, I am happy that I've manage to clear the first hurdle.

I did not have a very effective learning strategy and I realize now that I was trying to learn several things at the same time. Before actually carrying out the E Learning deliverables, I had to learn how to navigate the Wiki and blog. However, in an effort to save time, I tried to learn these new concepts while I ws carrying out the E Learning. I ended up confusing myself with tons of instructions.

The only way that I can improve is to keep on doing and keep on trying. I think I'm already getting the hang of it though and foresee myself getting familiar with these interesting and innovative learning/teaching tools.

Did the group processes support my group's learning? Why and why not? How can I/we improve?

This group is made up of students who joined the class only during the second week and we have missed quite a lot that was covered in the first lesson.

Naturally, progress has been slow initially but I do think that the pace is picking up and we will be able to catch up. I remember when the E Learning week was on, we were asking each other technical uestions that we couldn't answer.

For this group, it was a matter of everyone jumping into a deep pool of the unknown at the same time. Although there were some hiccups in the first week of us setting up this blog, I'm confident that we can improve and help each other along the way. We just have to keep on trying and persevering.