Finished!!!

I just finished my final assignment and closed the it´s learning window for the last time, at least for the next days. It was really a lot of work these last days, and I am very happy that I managed to meet the deadline. It was much more work than expected on these last meters, and a few blog entries ago I doubted that it would be possible for me to finish in time. But now I am glad that it worked, and I am very curious about the feedback and naturally my grade on the e-pedagogy-course.
Right now I can say that it was a great experience, and I use the new tools every day now, so the first benefit is already there. Thank you all, Anne Karin, Grete Oline, Wim, and Mark, for your support, discussions, feedback, help and much more! I hope all of you will have a nice summer lying ahead, and I am looking forward to the next meeting with you!

Screen Lecture

Today I made my screen lecture for the final assessment. Wow, this is so much work! A good 10 minutes of screen lecture, and work for approximately 4 or 5 hours, and the product is by no means anywhere near professionality! It is only to show what I have in mind. But I am pretty proud, even if I don´t have the video on the it´s learning platform yet, but I hope I will manage to do so! And I think that I will be able to meet the deadline, but really on the very last moment!

The final assignment

I am working on my course structure and content now every day, and it is almost impossible I think to be ready on the deadline. The semester is in its last two weeks here, and there are a million things to do I had not on my agenda. So I am almost sure that contrary to my optimism to be ready at the end of july I will have to use the second deadline.
I totally missed the task 7, because I have to admit I didn´t quite read the task 7 description to the end, but stopped halfway through reading when grasping that it was about the course structure, then remembering one of our teachers during one vitero session mentioning that my course structure can clearly be seen in my course development, and that was it... One more mistake because of making fast, fast, fast, and I think it has no point to keep on going like that, because it will cause mistakes on the way, in structuring the course. So, I will keep on trying to finish it to the june deadline, but if I have to see that it won´t work, then that´s how it is...
wim seems to be the one of us with the clearest structure and working plan, congratz, wim! I hope you can keep on!
and now back to work on the course...

Working on the course

I am working on my course of mental disorders now almost every day, and I can say that I meet your working time estimation, Anne Karin and Grete Oline, now much more than I did in the first weeks :-) In order to be ready on the deadline I have a lot to do on the course, and I think now I am working on the e-pedagogy-course approximately 12 to 15 hours per week. And I am not sure if I can make it. To prepare these things costs so much time!
I want the first week - the absolute beginning and the pre-start-week - to be the first part of my course program to be evaluated in the final assignment, because I am convinced that the start of the program is the most important part of it: the "first sight". If this goes wrong I will lose the students right from the beginning. So I am really trying very hard to make everything as clear, precise, helpful as possible. Even if there is a lot of material in our course of e-pedagogy we can use or we can take as a model, it still costs so much time to adapt it, structure it, fit it to the course we have to build... at least that´s my opinion, but I am curious about the reflections of my colleagues on this topic.
One thing I wasn´t really able to do is to cut the curriculum plan down to two pages. How is this for you, Mark and Wim? And Anne Karin and Grete Oline, because the curriculum plan in the e-pedagogy-course is three pages, is it ok not to reduce the curriculum plan too much? Because in its form now I am really satisfied with my curriculum plan and I don´t want to delete anything, but I would have to, if I had to fit it down to two pages.
Today I also received Anne Karins feedback on my trigger, and it is very useful feedback! It will help me to further the use of my trigger in my course, and I will do so when I work on my course week about eating disorders.

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.