Well I am all set for E856

Unable to make the first online tutorial but thanks to another a recorded elluminate session I was able to get the general idea of the course. One week into the course and as usual the national forum has already become to busy with far too many postings. It tends to set the fear of panic as some students seem way ahead already, I can't believe they are reading all this or they must have far too much time on their hands.

E856 Journal Of Learning Many of the links referred to below are restricted for my own use but nevertheless this should give an idea of how I am organised and setup for online study.

I am finally all organised and have read session 1 and given some thought to my Journal my Symbaloo page is set up I have decided to use an Online Google Document as my Journal to store key points from learning which combined with my Diigo references and blog Postings should form my journal of learning . The forum message feeds have been added to my Google Reader feed and this will make searching and staying informed a lot easier without having to find my way through all the forum messages. Piecing all this together is my MAODE ePortfolio which has grown to be invaluable over the past few years.

I have also added a few additional Google Docs to be used in preparation for the TMAs

TMA01,

TMA02
TMA03

And the Project notes
Guidance Sheet
Project Ideas

Well that's me organised, what ever you are studying this year, Good Luck.

Want to Build Better E-Learning Courses? Think Beer » The Rapid eLearning Blog

Want to Build Better E-Learning Courses? Think Beer » The Rapid eLearning Blog

I felt for a colleague today, just started a new job full of enthusiasm and ready to transform the training at his college. He has recruited a couple of very knowledgeable learning technologists so its all systems go. Only to be told to transform the training to level 1. Talk about restricting capability and stifling creativity. There must be some room for some creativity.
My suggestion, produce some level 1 stuff then,  ''Show them what you could have had'', I wish them luck and hope they don't jump ship yet, the wheels can sometimes turn slowly. 

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They could also approach using the beer metaphor it may go down better but then again they are probably larger drinkers anyway.