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The process of writing this manual was an interesting one. This practicum has been the first time I have been challenged to such an extent in a long time. Writing the manual is indicative of the learning process that I have gone through during this practicum. When I began the manual I had only just signed-up for a WordPress blog. However I have always thrived on such challenging situations. The quality of learning when there is urgent necessity seems enhanced. This is how I learned enough about WordPress in six weeks to facilitate 6 workshops, set up a blog, and write a 25 page manual.

 

Online: Sites

 

Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.com

Edublogs: www.edublogs.org

WordPress.com: www.wordpress.com

WordPress.org: www.wordpress.org

St Marys University: Wiki

WordPress Blogs

Delicious Tag Learning

Email with friends

 

Online Activities

 

Set up:

 

WordPress.com blog: Lucaseportfolio.wordpress.com

ecoaching site: www.ecoachingubc.edublogs.org

Contacted a host and hosted a WordPress.org site. The has allowed me to test the final program that the teacher candidates will be using

Picture Blog for my father www.yukonjohn.wordpress.com

Downloaded SnagIt software

 

Meetings

Joe Zerdin (OLT) about some WordPress basics

Bryan Lamb (OLT) about embedding artifacts in WordPress

Michelle Lamberson Director (OLT) about the overall UBC TEO, OLT plan

 

 

I not only learned about WordPress through this process I learned about Web 2.0 applications and computer use and the Internet in general. The manual needs some editing and revising but it designed and written well enough that I think it will become a valuable resource in the program.

 

The process that I followed in this process was networked. I went to multiple sources online and face-to-face and I gained knowledge from community as well as expert sources. This is my learning process and this is part of the reasons that personal learning networks are so compelling to me. I learn in a network. I would be interested in other’s perception of learning networks. Is that how they learn.

I expect within the year to have began to concentrate more on my personal learning network. The process of completing this manual revealed some of the intricacies of my own learning process.