Receiving feedback

Today I read the feedback Wim gave to me concerning my curriculum plan. I read his feedback both as a student (seeing how I could improve my work) and as a "teacher" (enjoying his complying with our feedback rules, by starting positive, being concrete, resourceoriented, helpful), and I can say it was really a pleasure to read his feedback.

especially useful in my opinion is, that he gave me his feedback in part directly into my document on google-docs. I think this is really the easiest way to give feedback, so it is good for the teacher, and at the same time it is the easiest way for the student to use the feedback, so everything for me is just perfect! he makes specific suggestions, and everything he says makes sense to me, so I think I will be able to enhance my work.

I can say that as a student I would enjoy it very much to have Wim as a teacher! And I think this is exactly what you, anne karin and grete oline, aimed at by constructing your feedback rules. I really like these rules, and I would appreciate it if they would spread as wide as possible in the field of teachers, not only those in the e-learning-environment!

Giving feedback

As task 5b we had to give feedback to one of our fellows´ curriculum plan. that was very similar to a practice we had during our campus week. then we had to give feedback on written tasks we did not know the authors of. this was pretty easy for me, especially because the feedback was not written to the author and it was not written on the internet.

now, when I had to give feedback to Marks curriculum plan, it was a little bit different, because now it was clear that he will read my feedback, and that with every "critical point" I will probably cause some emotions on his side, and furthermore perhaps the need to invest more work. working means time, and time is of high value, so I felt the strong obligation to follow our feedback rules in a most proper way: honest feedback, but clear and constructive and precise, with ideas how to use it. I hope I did this in an according way.

What I experience nevertheless is this: if you are to publish your feedback on the internet, it is not so easy to really be honest as if you just write your feedback for your own papers or directly to the author.

So far Mark didn´t comment on my feedback, but I hope he will do so, as well as the teachers, so that I can see if my feedback is useful or not, and if not why not.

A visual trigger for the course of mental disorders

Follow this link to get to my audiovisual trigger on the topic of Anorexia for my course of mental disorders.

Course Construction

After finishing my own curriculum plan I have a few days to work on my own course of mental disorders. Like I did with the curriculum plan I think there is no need to invent the wheel a second time - especially after being encouraged to do so by Grete Oline - and I use the course construction of the e-pedagogy-course as a model. There are really many useful tools and notes and links... in this course we can use in our programs aswell. One question in this concern: can we use things like the tutorials and screen lectures on e-learning you, Anne Karin and Grete Oline, made during the preparation of your courses? I find this material extremely useful, and it would spare us a lot of time if we could use these materials for our own courses. Because everything you made about e-learning is useful for our students, even if we have different topics to cover. So I would be very glad if these resources would be available!
I sill enjoy the "new world" of e-learning very much, and I am integrating more and more parts of it in my campus teaching. I have 5 weeks of teaching left, and after this a lot of time to work over my lectures and seminars for the next semester!

Curriculum Plan

I finished my curriculum plan, and you can see it here. Thank you for your useful reflection and feedback! Now I´m looking forward to your feedback to my curriculum plan, Wim, as our teachers pointed you out to give me feedback. But feedback by the others will be very welcome, too! ;-) everybody can give me her or his feedback here as a reply to this post.

The curriculum plan

During the last days I worked on my curriculum plan. The model we received during the campus week was extremely useful for me during my own construction process! I think that curriculum plan on "social work in school" is really fine and well structured, and I didn´t feel ashamed to copy several parts of it that were absolutely applicable to my own course :-) On tuesday we will have a Vitero session all together, the first "big sit in" after the campus week. I am really happy to see anne karin, grete oline, wim and mark again on tuesday!

Taks 4

Here is the link to our document in google-docs, in which we present our group work on the question on pros and cons of e-learning.

That task was really an interesting work. We had in preparation one session of MSN on tuesday, and that session alone was very very educational. At first we needed approximately three quarters of an hour until the session really started and everybody was able to see everybody. I remember some of Murphys laws, almost every time I have to do something on the computer. One of them as I remember goes as follows: "If a problem seems to be easy, it will be hard. If a problem seems to be hard, it will be unpossible." It was almost like that - it seemed so easy to get this MSN chat running...

But finally we succeded. Then we found out that if there was a task at hand, it is very useful if one of the team takes the lead of the chat process, because otherwise the communication will not be very constructive. We managed that very well, and in my opinion this pre-session was really very useful for the whole process of the writing of the document. we did the work in the following days according to our plan, and even if it is not totally finished by now I think I am not premature if I say now: it was really good work!