- I love plants and have a huge garden
- We have over 200 roses bushes
- I have 1 cat named Happy
- I have 4 nephews whose ages range from 10 - 18
- I like to visit new places, but I hate the travel to get there
Final Reflection
13 years ago
Monday, June 9, 2008
Beginning of the Summer 2008 Web 2.0 Tools Course
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Reflections
What a learning experience this was! I learned to create a course in WebCT (I will be taking the class that teaches how to that this summer). I actually put everything I learned about facilitating an online course to the test. Overall I think I would have received a B for facilitation and maybe a B-- for design.
What did I learn from all of this and what will I do differently? A lot of what I learned and what I will do differently are tied together. I learned what can happen if you don't stress netiquette at the beginning of the course and will start every course with reading and a quiz on netiquette. I learned that people get upset when they miss the first week and can't catch up. So from now on, no late arrivals. Mainly I learned that I need to tweak the weekly lessons. So between now and June I will be making some changes to the course.
What will I remember the most from this course? The looks on their faces when they would tell me how proud they were that they accomplished the task for the week. The pride in their voices when they spoke of their accomplishments (because several of them didn't think they would be able complete the tasks). How several of them took what they learned and ran with it, one especially comes to mind: Pam's Genealogy Blog. I am proud of all of them.
Was it all fun and games? NO!!! Was it worth it? YES!!!! Will I be doing it again? Yes, starting in June.
See you in June!!!!!
What did I learn from all of this and what will I do differently? A lot of what I learned and what I will do differently are tied together. I learned what can happen if you don't stress netiquette at the beginning of the course and will start every course with reading and a quiz on netiquette. I learned that people get upset when they miss the first week and can't catch up. So from now on, no late arrivals. Mainly I learned that I need to tweak the weekly lessons. So between now and June I will be making some changes to the course.
What will I remember the most from this course? The looks on their faces when they would tell me how proud they were that they accomplished the task for the week. The pride in their voices when they spoke of their accomplishments (because several of them didn't think they would be able complete the tasks). How several of them took what they learned and ran with it, one especially comes to mind: Pam's Genealogy Blog. I am proud of all of them.
Was it all fun and games? NO!!! Was it worth it? YES!!!! Will I be doing it again? Yes, starting in June.
See you in June!!!!!
Weeks 8, 9 and 10
A lot of time has elapsed and I am finally catching up. At the same time I was teaching this course I was taking an online course. To read about my experience in the Certificate in Online Teaching go to: http://thoughtsonline-roseypenguin.blogspot.com/ Now on with the course:
Week 8 was social networking where we covered MySpace and Facebook. The general consensus was that everyone seemed to prefer Facebook over MySpace. Facebook does seem to be older and more professional. Now that is not to say that you will not find teenagers on Facebook. As a matter of fact 4 of my friends are teenagers. As soon as I had added my nephew, two of his friends added me as well. The week we were studying social networking, MySpace was in the news (again!). We had a really good discussion on safety differences between the two with people posting links to articles about safety and tragedies. It was one of the better weeks.
Week 9 was podcasting and YouTube. We listed resources for them to go and listen to podcasts and then asked them to find library related videos to share. Some of the videos were a little off the mark, but hey, they tried. I created a podcast to show them how easy it was, I was hoping someone else would give it a try. But nobody was up to the challenge. It was a looooong week.
Week 10 was Second Life and a party. Yeah!!! All they had to do was sum up their experience and read about Second Life. They were not required to actually go create an account in Second Life. A couple of people did and last I heard they were having fun. The demonstration of Second Life hit a few snags. (It work perfectly during the dry run). I couldn't get Second Life to run, it took me about 20 minutes so I kept a running dialog and took questions. Then Sarah got stuck in a sitting position and couldn't stand up, wish I had taken pictures. We toured the Statue of Liberty, took a ferry ride (Sarah fell through the boat), visited the Sistine Chapel, and Information Island to see the libraries. Then it was on to pizza. Yeah!!!
Week 8 was social networking where we covered MySpace and Facebook. The general consensus was that everyone seemed to prefer Facebook over MySpace. Facebook does seem to be older and more professional. Now that is not to say that you will not find teenagers on Facebook. As a matter of fact 4 of my friends are teenagers. As soon as I had added my nephew, two of his friends added me as well. The week we were studying social networking, MySpace was in the news (again!). We had a really good discussion on safety differences between the two with people posting links to articles about safety and tragedies. It was one of the better weeks.
Week 9 was podcasting and YouTube. We listed resources for them to go and listen to podcasts and then asked them to find library related videos to share. Some of the videos were a little off the mark, but hey, they tried. I created a podcast to show them how easy it was, I was hoping someone else would give it a try. But nobody was up to the challenge. It was a looooong week.
Week 10 was Second Life and a party. Yeah!!! All they had to do was sum up their experience and read about Second Life. They were not required to actually go create an account in Second Life. A couple of people did and last I heard they were having fun. The demonstration of Second Life hit a few snags. (It work perfectly during the dry run). I couldn't get Second Life to run, it took me about 20 minutes so I kept a running dialog and took questions. Then Sarah got stuck in a sitting position and couldn't stand up, wish I had taken pictures. We toured the Statue of Liberty, took a ferry ride (Sarah fell through the boat), visited the Sistine Chapel, and Information Island to see the libraries. Then it was on to pizza. Yeah!!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Week 7: Wikis
This week is all about wikis and so we set up a FAQ Wiki for the GSU Library. We are going to explore collaborative group work. Our wiki has a page for each of the departments in the library and the idea is to post commonly asked questions along with the answers. The beauty of a wiki is that one person can post the question and someone else can come in and supply the answer.
There is also a good discussion going about the authenticity of the entries in wikis. The fact that some wikis allow anyone to edit with checking the facts raises flags. We are discussing the different ways of limiting who edits the wikis. There are passwords, locking the wiki, and the discussion is continuing.
There is also a good discussion going about the authenticity of the entries in wikis. The fact that some wikis allow anyone to edit with checking the facts raises flags. We are discussing the different ways of limiting who edits the wikis. There are passwords, locking the wiki, and the discussion is continuing.
Week 6 Wrap-up
Well we survived Week 6. There were a few problems with downloading the del.icio.us buttons to the toolbar. For some unknown reason different computers showed different buttons. It was a little confusing, but it got straightened out. There was also a little debate about tags, subject headings and bookmarks.
Tags are subject headings that are assigned by the user. There are popular tags which many people use and there are suggested tags which are recommended by ? I don't know who recommends the suggested tags, are they experts, authorities, I am not sure. I have noticed that many of popular tags are the same as recommended tags.
Tags are subject headings that are assigned by the user. There are popular tags which many people use and there are suggested tags which are recommended by ? I don't know who recommends the suggested tags, are they experts, authorities, I am not sure. I have noticed that many of popular tags are the same as recommended tags.
Week 6: del.icio.us and Technorati
Here is my wrap-up of del.icio.us and Technorati. I use del.icio.us all the time and I am slowly changing all of my Google bookmarks over to del.icio.us. It is easy to use and to share, each tag (subject heading) that you use will have it's own URL and RSS feed. You can share the URL or they can subscribe to the RSS Feed. If you are working on a group project, you can assign a group tag and everyone can pull up all of the websites that you have tagged. You del.icio.us tags are accessible on any computer, anytime, anywhere.
Technorati, well I just don't see the use for it at this time. I claimed my blogs and well that was fun, now what? I will check occasionally to see if it gets any better, but for now I don't plan on doing anything with my account.
Technorati, well I just don't see the use for it at this time. I claimed my blogs and well that was fun, now what? I will check occasionally to see if it gets any better, but for now I don't plan on doing anything with my account.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Week 5: Play Week (Image Generators, Rollyo, and LibraryThing
Can you believe it? Week 5 already. This week are playing with Image Generators, Rollyo and LibraryThing. Let me start off with LibraryThing, I have just started adding my books and I don't see the attraction. Maybe I will change my mind after I have added a few more books.
The image generators are fun, here are a couple of images I created:
I used the fortune cookie generator to create my own fortune cookie.
The image generators are fun, here are a couple of images I created:
I used the fortune cookie generator to create my own fortune cookie.
I used LunaPic to alter a digital photo. I can see libraries using image generators to create images for signs or displays.
I create a search roll in Rollyo on the topic of plagiarism that is located on the side of the blog. I can see libraries (especially public) using this to create search rolls for online dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.
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