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Working from home is WEIRD - I guess this is the kind of self-disciplne you need to exercise when you're studying 'for real' on an online course - it's easy to get very distracted, after all the rest of the net is only a lick away from your course/work.
Against that is the weird time and space demarcations being erased and evapourated - you don't have to get up for x o'clock, put suit on and drive to y then spend z hours there before you return. Instead I drift between doing some reading/planning then doing somehing else then back to reading/planning then read more then it's somehow 9:30pm and I'm thinking'have I done enough today'?
Still, no-one's in at work and there's no real need to be there as I can connect to everything from home now that broadband is up and running. The VPN gives me access to my files and the network drive, I have all the software of work on my laptop here so can open the projec documents etc. excpet the VPN does slow it all down to supid slowness but hey.
And this blog - what's it for? Random rambling musings? A repository for the days insights? A link amalgamation? I dunno - I guess I'll let it evolve and see which of (all) of these things it becomes.
Key stuff from today:
Will need to reproduce the whole of Chapter 10 of Susan Ko's excellent book 'Teaching Online a Practical Guide' for the end of the e-learning experience. Also wondering about extending the course for an extra 2 weeks with the shift in module developments...
Finsihed that book, delved into Alan Clarke's 'E-learning study skills' - definately good pre-reading fo the course, need to look at the guide Kathryn James suggests for their course - will have to get back to her on that one.
Have begun looking through the activities of the Gilly Salmon 'E-tivities' book, need a bit more meat to get discussion and tasks going in the e-learning experience, a combination of case studies dawing on Ko practical approach and Salmon's 5-stage model should produce something concrete, ad I'm feeling I need t move towards the concrete really. Will have to focus more tomorrow (didn't I say that yesterday?) but want to let this stuf wash around in my head emore for now and then maybe brainstorm on big sheets of paper.
Should also try an get chain fixe for my doen'-seem-quite-so-good-now mountain bike which I really hope isn't a headache and will last a good while but fear it may not be quite the great thing i seemed after busting on first ever ride (still that's what I feared for my van - you can't win them all!)
posted by Steve Wright @ 1:35 PM
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