As many of you have noted, this course has been quite a journey or ‘venture’ in itself. I did, however, find that my own participation came in ebbs and flows and fits and starts. After some reflection, I think that the weblog platform and missed opportunities for further engagement could be improved. When it comes […]
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Hello everyone, I’ve really enjoyed the Venture Forums this week and I’m amazed at the innovation of so many great ideas from eveyone. For our participation portfolio, we have the option of giving constructive ideas on how participation could be improved in future ETEC 522 courses. One thing that I would add is to have even more […]
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Hi Donna,
I like the suggestions you made, particularly the one to review pitches in advance with a small group. Along the same line of thinking, I would have liked the option to create our ventures in small groups, partnering with peers for more expertise, to bounce off ideas and *perhaps* to create a BETA or prototype of the product/service we want to offer. I’ve enjoyed seeing everyone’s ideas, but it might be nice to begin implementing them, which could be possible if we worked in small teams. I realize this could make some programming-intensive ventures impossible to create, but it would be wonderful to be able to move forward and get our ventures to a real marketing stage rather than role-playing one.
May
Hello May,
I like your idea of creating our ventures in small groups and then moving forward to getting them on a real marketing stage! That would be an entire degree program in itself. Perhaps a new doctorat program we should propose:)
Cheers,
Donna
Hi Donna
I was thinking along the same lines as you. Peer editing /feedback on assignments would promote participation and learning.
I have enjoyed working with you and reading your contributions.
Valerie
Hello Valerie,
I’ve enjoyed working with your too. Our BYOD group was a great one!
Cheers,
Donna
May,
I was thinking along the same lines as you in regards to giving and receiving peer feedback prior to the due date of A3. I have always had very positive experiences in courses that have done similar exercises in the past. I think such activities really go a long way in contributing to an active and engaging community of practice.
gillian
Hello Gillian,
I’m glad that we’re thinking along the same lines. Peer support is a must!
Have a great summer,
Donna
I agree with the opportunity to seek out peer feedback in advance of handing in the venture pitch. I feel as though we should be using each others’ comments to strengthen our pitches. Very astute comment, I feel.
Todd
Hello Todd,
Thanks for your comments.
I know that I learned so much from the others’ critiques of my Venture Pitch and would have loved to have had another week to clean my presentation up a bit.
Enjoy your summer,
Donna
Hi Donna,
It was a pleasure working with you again on another MET course and I was great being your group member for A2. I agree we have all learned so much from each other in this course and peer collaboration and group collaboration opportunities are always great for this!
Thanks for your insightful input, great work ethic and for sharing your contagious desire to learn with the cohort!
Hope to see you in some of my courses in the fall 🙂
Sheza
Hello Sheza,
Like I said in my other course posting, I was a pleasure being in 511, 522 and 532 with you this term.
Looking forward to working with you again.
Have a great summer.
Donna
Donna,
I really like the idea of reviewing and critiquing Elevator and Venture Pitches prior to submitting. Having never done one, nor seen one before, it would have been very beneficial. Also the feedback I received from colleagues could have helped immensely.
David McInnes
Hello David,
Thanks for your comments and have a fabulous summer
Donna
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Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the info. But I noticed that the LinkedIn hasn’t notify its users about this issue.
I don’t know why they haven’t done that yet, but a friend of mine had his account hacked.
After reading this: http://mashable.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-password-check/
I tested it, and my password my stolen 🙁
Hi all, I just posted into the week 3 forum and I had embedded a YouTube video in my post. Everything looked fine on preview and the video ran beautifully. When I posted, however, I noticed that the embedded video had disappeared. I have embedded videos in previous blogs without issue. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks […]
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Hi Deborah – I’ve posted several embedded videos since this post and they’ve appeared to work fine – if you’ve tried again and failed let me know and I’ll see if our tech team has any suggestions.
David
Next meet time in Google Docs: 7:30 pm (PST) Wednesday May 23, 2012 There will be ice cream. Dave promised.
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Um, so I am guessing if this is the “next” meet time, I missed the first meeting? Can someone send me an invite to the google doc so I can see what I have missed? Also, where have we been planning the meet times? I have been watching the posts but obviously missed it 🙁 I am still getting used to maneuvering through the posts so I probably just overlooked something or am looking in the wrong place.
Sorry …
Janet
Hi Everyone! I made up a quick app for the course this morning. You can get it if you point your phone’s browser to http://ibuildapp.com/projects.php?action=info&projectid=235609 or you could try to scan the QR code If you have any suggestions about what you would like to have included in the app, please just let me know! FYI, […]
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Nicely Done Kenton!!
Heh, slick!
dat’s l337! 🙂
That is awesome Kenton. I want to do that!!!
Dennis
Hi Dennis, it is nice to see you again!
If you are interested, the program I used is found at ibuildapp.com. It is fairly easy to create as long as everthing is already on the web, no need to program. Another option that works is a site called appmakr.com again easy to use but you will need to know some programming to get the phone to do more than just show rss feeds, its kind of a pain but with practice it gets better.
I have to say I prefer ibuildapp for its easy of use over appmakr but I think that there is more you can do with appmakr if you are good at programming.
K
That’s pretty sweet, particularly the ease of the QR. Any chance of tweaking it for the iPAd?
I’ll have a look and see what I can do. I currently don’t own an iPad or any tablet for that matter so I’m not sure how it looks as is on them, but I’ll try and tweak it a little bit. As always, with things like this, it is a work in progress and can only get better!
Neat stuff, Kenton! I’m porting some Android apps (apk) to Playbook (bar) over the summer. I might be able to port your native app to Playbook if there is a demand. 🙂
Not too confident that this one will hit a million downloads, but feel free to do with it what you want! I guess we will have to wait and see if it is useful for people first.
Excellent! Great share.
Awesome! I put xCode on my Mac and tried once to get building but gave up before I got anywhere. Any suggestions for skill development?
Sorry Chelsea, I am not much of a programmer, I tend to find sites and web 2.0 applications that I can use and modify for my personal benefit! I have tried to do some coding but have no experience with xCode or Macs in general. I do know that Apple does offer some online tutorials and support for people wanting to learn how to use xCode and make their own apps. I think too, a lot of getting better at programming and creating apps is practice and refining, its not going to be perfect the first time, you just need to keep trying.
Hey thanks – added this to the iPhone. One of the benefits of taking a course entirely on WordPress rather than the LMS is that is instantly becomes mobile friendly. Great work Knewton.
I agree! I really like how WP renders on the smaller screen without a hassle.
Side note: Has anyone had any problems accessing any of the pages?
Hey Dennis. I viewed the app on my phone and it looks great. I have an Android phone though … how do I put it on my phone? (Sorry … a little technically challenged here …)
gillian
Hi Kenton,
Wow! I’m impressed! Thanks for creating this app.
Cheers,
Adriana
Thanks, Kenton! Much appreciated.
Deborah
Good stuff Kenton!
Hello Kenton
Thanks for the application. I am using both systems iOS and Android. I tried the application on iOS ( iphone) and it is working properly. I haven’t tried it with my Android tablets. It is an interesting application.
Thanks
Nice work Kenton! I wonder if I’ve missed something since I can’t find the entry to install it (only can view it in safari). Isn’t it supposed to redirect me to somewhere with a “Install” button? Sorry I’m a newbie of iPhone. Tell me the steps pls, can’t wait to use it.
Thanks!
You are going to have to open it in safari for the iPhone and then add it as a bookmark to the home page. Its not like a normal app store app in that it needs to be installed, its just a web-based app at the moment.
Thank you Kenton, I got it. 🙂
Really cool stuff – Thanks Kenton 🙂
Before you publish your posting, please make sure that you select a category (eg. Introductions) as well as assign some meaningful tags (keywords).
janetb 1:00 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian,
Great comments – I, too, found the navigation in the blog format a little off-putting at times. I also found that there were more individual comments about concepts, but far less interactive discussion about them than in other courses.
I also agreed with your comment about “the Ask” part of a venture. I was stumped on that, too. I also had no idea what is generally considered acceptable for both amount and timeline on the Return, so more guidance on those would have been helpful.
Thanks for your post,
Janet
gillian 2:11 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks for your reply Janet – it was nice to know I wasn’t alone :). I was happy to have the opportunity to express my thoughts.
gillian
vawells 2:03 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian
Great suggestions to facilitate greater participation! The format of the blog did not lend itself to interactive discussions but instead as Janet said posts were mostly comments about concepts covered. For me a LMS offers more structure, ease of use and facilitated more collaborative learning opportunities.
Enjoy the rest of your summer
Valerie
gillian 2:12 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Valerie,
Thank you. Best to you for the rest of your summer as well.
gillian
Dennis Pratt 3:11 pm on August 4, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Gillian;
Great ideas. I did like that this course was not “post heavy” as some courses eat too much time reading and posting comments. I believe the amount of time on discussions should match the weight of the mark given to it but that seems to rarely be the case. I agree that some things were difficult to navigate and I am aware of a few instances where directions were unclear.
Enjoy what is left of your summer.
Dennis
gillian 10:16 am on August 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Dennis,
I agree that there have been some courses where participation expectations have been overwhelming and the value placed on them rather … um … underwhelming. The value in this case does seem to match the time and effort allotted; however, I do feel that there were missed opportunities for learners to give and receive constructive feedback which would have helped to build a more supportive and active community.
Cheers to the rest of your summer as well.
gillian
Deborah S 8:20 am on August 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian,
I agree with your comments about navigation. I found it time consuming to locate the posts I was supposed to provide feedback on this past week. I had the same problem in weeks two and three of the course before the group presentations started. While it may have been easier to administer the course in a LMS, I was happy to get experience with this blogging tool and I’m certainly feeling more confident with it than I was at the start of the term.
Deborah
gillian 10:18 am on August 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Deborah,
It certainly was a valuable learning experience in regards to using a weblog as a learning platform. While I still prefer the accordances of an LMS, weblogs are a less costly alternative.
Thanks for your comments and I hope you enjoy the rest of your summer.
gillian
Danielle Dubien 10:08 pm on August 5, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Gillian,
I agree that it would have been useful to have more information about estimatiing the value of the “ask” and “return”. I was able to estimate some values, and having watched Dragon’s Den a few times, I had a bit of an idea of values that were reasonable. Perhaps references or a video on cost and profit estimates would have done the trick.