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Glad to have the final assignment for the course posted.

It has been a great course, as the folks in 4H say, learn to do by doing.

The course site and blog page are done. It has been quite a learning experience. Now on to the final reflection.

Working in reverse order –  the html portion of week one is complete. Now I will need to set up the forums and week 1 quiz in MOODLE and make sure the groups are set up and that the selective release is set up. Hopefully that will go smoothly.

My week 2 learning module is done, at least the part I need to do in html. I have the workflow down. It is actually generating the content that takes time.

Since this course and 512 are the only courses I have taken online, I keep finding myself trying to adapt activities from these courses to work in my course. Not a bad thing, I just keep having to ask myself if this is the best way to do things.

After several misadventures, the digital story is up on the Story page. I think it was a valuable lesson for me – give yourself a project to work on if you really want to understand the limitations of an application!

My Moodle site is working! I got rid of the pages I did with NVu and redid them in Dreamweaver.  Now the links are working as expected and the photos show up. I think there problems with the links the first time round. I will know what to look for next time.

I used Word to compose the splash page image and icons and then used Jing to convert them to png files. There is probably a more elegant way to do this, but I was using the tools I was familiar with.

The differences between the wiki and the Blackboard discussion that jumped out for me were the anonymity of the contributions to the Wiki. I am accustomed to having all of our contributions identified.

The other wiki I have used was WYSIWYG, so I was a little surprised to see the html tags. Fortunately ? I have spent a fair amount of time with Nvu and Dreamweaver tutorials that I am beginning to recognize the simple tags.

My Flight Plan is up. It feels a little more concrete and I am mulling over what I need to get done to make it all happen. I think the next is to ask to make sure I have access to Elluminate.

So far so good, but next on my to do list is a flight plan for the course. I don’t yet have agood sense of what the options are, so it is hard to narrow it down. I will need to do a little more reading – hopefully it is explained in the flight plan assignment.