With the website up and running and a bit of time before I go back to work I couldn't resist a look. First impressions are just what I expected everything links nicely from the student homepage and resources are easy to find.
Having skip read some of the material and had a quick peek at the TMA, I know I couldn’t resist, experience has meant that I keep the TMAs and assessments in mind from the off. A really useful document is the technologies schedule I printed this off straight away, it will form a useful guide I am sure.
Initial concerns are also as expected there is an awful lot of reading, plenty of technology to get my head around but it looks really interesting. So many writing styles as well, I am out of practice here so will be looking early for examples of academic writing, reflective writing and reports. I have been using Pebblepad for a while and GoogleApps. I need to decide early on which app to use I think. An important criteria here will be what I can access at work. I look forward to discussing them in the conference later.
A quick look in the conferences revealed a few early birds, will stay away from here for a while I think. The OU has learn’t from previous courses and its good to see that my tutor conference does not open until the course start date. A quick email to my Tutor just to say hello I think, and that will do for today.
Thursday 27 August 2009
Wednesday 5 August 2009
Referencing
Refworks
Referencing on the course follows the Harvard structure Some examples
H808 Guidance
Braeking all rules at the moment I have pasted the main bits here to edit and provide quick reference for me later. Ref works has also been setup.
Referencing
Referencing is important in the presentation of work, particularly at postgraduate level. Complete and accurate references are a hallmark of high-quality academic writing. You may be familiar with another referencing system, but for your assignments in this course please use the Harvard (author/date) system, which is the one we use in the MAODE programme. List your references at the end of your assignment, alphabetically by author, and by date within author, as explained below. When marking your work, your tutor will look for accurate use of the Harvard system.
Library: Cite references:
"How to organise your references
You can acknowledge your sources by creating a list of references or bibliography. You do this in 2 steps:
Step 1:
In text citations In text citations are where you indicate in your work where you have used ideas or material from other sources. How you do this depends on which referencing style you use. Here are some examples using the Harvard referencing style. Further work (Brown, 1999) supports this claim Further work by Brown (1999) supports this claim 'This theory is supported by recent work' (Brown, 1999, p.25)
Step 2:
List your references at the end of your work Everything you have cited in the text of your work , e.g. journal articles, web pages, podcasts etc, should be listed at the end. These are your references. References should include everything you need to identify the item, and should be in a standard and consistent format. Your reference list can also include items you have read but not referred to directly in your text. Electronic sources should also be cited consistently and systematically. With e.g. web pages, e-journals, podcasts, you need to say when you last accessed them. This is because electronic sources are updated frequently, so saying when you accessed them is like giving the edition of a book."
Referencing on the course follows the Harvard structure Some examples
H808 Guidance
Braeking all rules at the moment I have pasted the main bits here to edit and provide quick reference for me later. Ref works has also been setup.
Referencing
Referencing is important in the presentation of work, particularly at postgraduate level. Complete and accurate references are a hallmark of high-quality academic writing. You may be familiar with another referencing system, but for your assignments in this course please use the Harvard (author/date) system, which is the one we use in the MAODE programme. List your references at the end of your assignment, alphabetically by author, and by date within author, as explained below. When marking your work, your tutor will look for accurate use of the Harvard system.
Library: Cite references:
"How to organise your references
You can acknowledge your sources by creating a list of references or bibliography. You do this in 2 steps:
Step 1:
In text citations In text citations are where you indicate in your work where you have used ideas or material from other sources. How you do this depends on which referencing style you use. Here are some examples using the Harvard referencing style. Further work (Brown, 1999) supports this claim Further work by Brown (1999) supports this claim 'This theory is supported by recent work' (Brown, 1999, p.25)
Step 2:
List your references at the end of your work Everything you have cited in the text of your work , e.g. journal articles, web pages, podcasts etc, should be listed at the end. These are your references. References should include everything you need to identify the item, and should be in a standard and consistent format. Your reference list can also include items you have read but not referred to directly in your text. Electronic sources should also be cited consistently and systematically. With e.g. web pages, e-journals, podcasts, you need to say when you last accessed them. This is because electronic sources are updated frequently, so saying when you accessed them is like giving the edition of a book."
ePortfolios ?
A quick look at what an ePortfolio is I have found a couple of useful links which I want to note for now. My initial thoughts looking at the content is that there is a graet deal of reading and information to absorb. It it evident that organisiation is required. How will I remember whwere I saw a piece of useful information? What am I going to use to logg activity? A blog, a google doc? This will be a discussion point in my conference asap I need to know what others are using?
There is a fear of information overload here.
Anyway some links
Balancing the two sides to a Portfolio Dr Helen Barrett
Focuses on the two sides to a portfolio
Investigations into differant types of ePortfolio apps. A whole range of apps where does she find the time. No reference to Moodle?
http://electronicportfolios.org/balance/index.html
There is a fear of information overload here.
Anyway some links
Balancing the two sides to a Portfolio Dr Helen Barrett
Focuses on the two sides to a portfolio
Investigations into differant types of ePortfolio apps. A whole range of apps where does she find the time. No reference to Moodle?
http://electronicportfolios.org/balance/index.html
H808
H808 The eLearning professional starts on Aug 24th. This Blog will be used amongst a number of other web 2.0 apps to provide evidence and support for my studies.
At this stage I am not sure what wil be my main app that I will use. Other currently used apps include:-
iGoogle
Pepplepad
Vstuff
My Stuff
The main app that I use at the moment is iGoogle it offers a whole range of facilities from just one link. http://www.google.co.uk/ig?t=3
At this stage I am not sure what wil be my main app that I will use. Other currently used apps include:-
iGoogle
Pepplepad
Vstuff
My Stuff
The main app that I use at the moment is iGoogle it offers a whole range of facilities from just one link. http://www.google.co.uk/ig?t=3
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