This weeks topic was 'collaboration and cooperation'. In the lecture Stuart Duvall took us through a guideline type structured lecture that explained what makes group work successful and what makes group work unsuccessful. This lecture made me feel quite positive and excited about getting task three started as the members in my group are all intrinsically motivated and strive for high marks. None of this P's get the degrees stuff, we want HD's!
Topic six was really based around task three, how to get started and what not to do. I loved this little bit of input Stuart added in to lecture.
I believe this idea of acting like your mother is watching you is not only linked to task three but is great advice to follow with in task one and two as well. As I suggested in my last blog that this unit has made me realise that Facebook is not a joke, it is a site that is a depiction of my personality, work ethic and reputation. future employees will look at my Facebook and this potentially could make or break my job opportunities. I believe that not only in a group situation should you act like your mother is watching you, but, that should be your strategy for the online world too. There is stigma about being able to edit yourself, allowing you to only show the highlight reel of who you really are, so why not take that opportunity to make yourself look better rather then, well, like a drunk party animal for most people!
In the work shop this week we were working in our groups for task three and one of our members was away sick, the rest of us were stressing about making the group contract and worrying about how we were going to get started without her information. Then we remembered we live in the 21st century. I had all of Sarah's details on the contract before the other two girls had even finished typing, sometimes you just have to love technology! the rest of the workshop we discussed how excited and nervous we were to get our grades for task two back, yet we decided to make a silver lining out of a possibly bad situation and make a meeting for next week, to go through our peer reviews and grades, see if we were on the same page and hopefully using the guidance to improve topic two and make a start on topic three. From then on we have decided to meet up once a week as well as in out tutorials to work on task three and also so we all something excellent to write in our blogs under 'networks and communication'!
Safe to say I drove (sped) home to check my results, without giving to much away, I was very happy little Vegemite. I thought the feedback was fair, relative and informative so I could do better with task two. It was largely my blog that I could achieve higher marks in. Hopefully you can tell I have been following the guidelines you handed out conveniently after task one!
Speaking of grades and marks, this weeks lecture left me slightly frustrated towards the end when it was revealed that the sample social media site that is on LMS did not receive excellent marks for all the categories, I noticed that it even had a few sufficient marks. I just asked myself why they would upload an average site when they know everyone will be using that as a guideline? kind of seems like a nasty trick to me! Luckily I took the low marking as a guideline and immediately added increased descriptions and information on my site.
On the same day task two is due for our peer reviews I have an essay due for another unit about how I used a specific form of technology to increase my learning. Boy did this unit come in handy! The amount of information I crossed over and linked to in my essay was enormous, it is so nice when all my units correlate, makes me feel like a real future teacher! As I wrote that essay and study this unit I become more and more invested in the idea that technology belongs in schools. That every year, every stand and everyone should be using technology in some way or form. A great point I cam across this week was that using applets and programmes for things that can also be done physically is a great way to allow the students to individualise there learning, make them feel responsible for their learning and allow them the choice and freedom which in turn I believe will induce higher grades and participation. In a way using technology to work on that self regulation.
My head is about to explode!
That is all from me, will blog after my peer review for the final time before I submit task two in. Holy moly where is this semester gone!
Blog you soon!
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