Sunday, May 11, 2008

FET8604- "Pedagogical Event"

Two weeks ago, I know nothing about the new tools used in supporting online learning. Most of my peers have started their pedagogical events. I kept long time in thinking about a topic for my event. At last, I decided to talk about tools that I have found them useful and used them during this course. These tools are:
- Blogs
- Google Docs
- Slideshare
- Evernote

My event will begin on Tuesday 13/5 till Fri 16/5. I will create my event in a blog to make it easier for participants to add their comments there.

Laila

Thursday, May 1, 2008

FET8604- Theme 5: Tools to Support Online Pedagogy

We are approaching week 10 in this course. Unfortunately, my group hasn't started yet in the collaborative activity and some member in other groups have already started with their pedagogical events.
Bee is the first one who started running her pedagogical event and I was really impressed by her topic. Her topic was about Voicethread platform. I didn't about it before. It seems that I am too poor in updating my knowledge regarding the recent tools in Technology. Because of Bee's presentation, I have to search for new modern tools that can be used to support the online pedagogy. I will start my search for these tools and discuss it with my group. I really hope that I could learn about new tools. That will be like finding a treasure.
Regards,
Laila

FET5601- Evaluation Activity

It's week 9 since the course has started. We are approaching now the last module in this course which is about ( Evaluation of Flexible Programs). I found one of the reading materials provided in this module (Evaluating open learning (Rowntree, 1992) is really helpful to understand the process of evaluation. However, I felt the reading was not enough for me because I wanted to know more about Formative and Summative Evaluation. I found some good articles that helped me a lot to start in my evaluation activity in the web discussion. I have listed the articles I found within a new post in my group forum to share with my team.

I have to say that before starting reading and searching for more articles, I didn't know what's formative and summative evaluation. I always come across these two types of evaluation but I wasn't able to understand them clearly till I started reading about them with the intention to use them in my evaluation activity.
Laila