A4 Submissions
Some of you are ready for your A4 (Participation Portfolio) submissions, so here are a few details.
The first part is simple – select your example set of 5-10 postings, capture their links, wrap them together with a short overview of your participation, and email that directly to me.
The second part is also simple, and completely optional. We’re always running experiments in this course, and always trying to improve it, so your comments and suggestions for making the experience more effective for future 522ers would be sincerely appreciated. You can also email these privately to me, but don’t hesitate to post them in the blog as well. Use the “Venture Forum” category again too, if you wish, so that other students can like/dislike your suggestion and also add comments.
For example, originally I really wanted to run the Emerging Markets Poll anew this week (along with the Venture Forum), just to see how much your opinions about the most opportunistic emerging markets had changed following weeks of immersion in them. As fascinating as that would have been, I thought your workload this week was plenty already. Was I right?
If you have questions, please email me or reply to this post.
Thanks!
David
Posted in: Announcements, Questions & Answers
Deb Giesbrecht 5:33 pm on November 30, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
yes – thank-you – the workload was plenty.
schiong 9:01 pm on November 30, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi
I agree.
I think the challenging part is going through the 10 assigned A3.
The A3s I am currently reviewing are all good. Unfortunately, we can only choose 3.
kstooshnov 10:50 pm on November 30, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi David,
Thanks for advice on how to keep the discussion going, and I hope that more students are willing to take you up on the challenge of reviewing past choices in this course, and determining what may have got them to change their mind on certain educational innovations.
In most MET courses, the final week of class is a bit sombre, with most classmates finishing off their assignments and not very interested in starting up new discussions. Usually a few will post their farewells to classmates they enjoyed chatting with, and then in a few weeks the discussion board disappears into the ether, as WebCT will only stay open about a month after the term has ended. Here we have a unique opportunity to keep the discussion going indefinitely, as past examples of ETEC 522’s blog are still active and easily found on-line. It is comforting to know that mine and others’ thoughts and reflections will be accessible in the months and years to come, and I fully intend to keep my Virtual Globe 3.0 post active, with some updating of video content, as a permanent location for future stages of this venture. It would be great to see how many other wonderful ideas in the field of learning technologies can be traced back to this group’s postings.
I really don’t know how much I will be able to post on my original “Emerging Market Poll” as it seems like another lifetime that I made those choices. I would rather like to see where classmates think their ventures will be in five years time, keeping with the forward-thinking push seen in many of the posts so far.
All the best,
Kyle