The problems associated with the ice storm, bursting water pipes, cars that won't start, dangerous driving and extreme cold along with the start of the semester made for a difficult start to the course for me. I am always advocating that students not procrastinate in an online course and now am feeling the anxiety of being behind.
In addition, Sharon and I have been working on a new program, eStart, which is a collaboration with the online high school in Exeter that just started last January and the Community College System of NH to offer online college courses to high school students for dual credit - high school and college credit for the same course. The collaboration has been problematic and difficult. Their systems and ours do not mesh, their registration process is not consistent with the college semester registration timing and there are endless details to resolve.
I have had difficulty organizing all the links and loading some of the technology like Skype. I loaded it but the sound does not work on my computer.
It would be helpful to have an assignment schedule on one document. I have spent a lot of time searching for things and more explanation of how to do some of the tech tasks would be helpful.
I highly recommend the bookmark organizing site Delicious as a way to manage all the links in this course.
I am currently running to catch up with everyone else.
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Don't feel bad, man. I'm just trying to catch up. Initially, my Skype didn't work either, and I couldn't connect with Jeff. I just spent my first Skype call with him, last night. Nothing is ever perfect. That's why we keep working at things (like registration callaborations) until we get it right. Just look at President Obahma's oath of office. Even he and the Chief Justice slipped up. It worked out all right, and he moved on.
ReplyDeleteSome things that look enormous become normal when we take our magnifying glasses off. Life has bumps. Do you have cushons? :)
Thanks for your comment Carl. You are right...we can only do what is possible sometimes.
ReplyDeleteAll the Best, Paul
"It would be helpful to have an assignment schedule on one document."
ReplyDeleteGood point...I'll remember this in the future.
"I have spent a lot of time searching for things and more explanation of how to do some of the tech tasks would be helpful."
Awe...but that is what this course is about. Learning how to learn. I could make screencasts for you, I could give you step by step instructions, but what would you learn? How to follow instructions? Learning through doing is the best way...IMHO (In My Humble Opinion). If you find you are searching a lot for information this video might help to better understand how Google works.
http://www.edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=2368
Part of teaching and learning in a networked classroom is understanding how to find things, so that you can teach your students how to find what they are looking for. These new digital literacy skills are what teacher need to have so they can help students learn how to search for content.