Enter the Blog

This blog was created as part of my studies - MTeach (teacher librarian) -hopefully here you may find some musings on education, libraries, life and studying along with generally witty and insightful comments (if i can manage any!).

Please add comments along the way. I'll be glad for any input, especially from fellow students and library lovers

Kylie




Friday, April 25, 2014

ETL523 Assignment 1 reflection

This has been an interesting assignment on a number of levels. Having to create a digital artifact was a great way to encourage me to explore new tools and ways of creating and 'selling' information and ideas. I can now see how this could be a useful tool in the classroom.

The group aspect has also been interesting too. I can also appreciate the value of collaborating and would like to add some of the group members to my professional learning network. I have made more connections and had more useful interactions about an assignment through this process than in any other assignment so far. The group work certainly does promote discussion and bring a level of collegiality to things. On the downside the variations of pace of work were hard to manage - I often read very widely and take some time to bring all the strands together - which is usually only a week or so out from the due date - but this assignment forced me to move faster and i don't think that I had fully internalised all the information when we were being pushed to make decisions. As a result i'm not entirely sure that our approach is what I would be recommending now. How the wiki is marked is also interesting as the number of edits doesn't necessarily reflect the amount of thought or work that has been put in - there has definitely been discrepancies in that area.

well ... here's my digital artifact. I arrived at the idea that you need to follow 3 steps to teach digital citizenship in a class digital learning environment. I haven't gone into depth about how the choice of the digital learning environment can  empower good digital citizenship practice by virtue of its design and way its used - rather this is a how to for those who may not know where to start.



Thursday, April 17, 2014

ETL523 wiki

I have just created a video for our wiki. Its the first time i've ever made a video and uploaded it to youtube. It is designed as an introduction to our wiki page and a way of conveying the information we needed without eating up our word count.

In many ways I can see how this assignment is a model of the ways in which we could implement an action/project based assignment for students. It has also encouraged me to try new tools.
Here is the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcnYUICDVSA