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This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.

#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.3 Extended: An Evaluation of my own participation in #ocTEL

I’m finally joining in again at the end.  As ocTEL is finishing this week after its first run and I have been being a lurker rather than an active participant since week 4-5, although I did tutor on week 5 and 7. Tutoring was good but often meant that in …

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#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.3 What do you think about ocTEL?

Revisiting the big TEL Questions… At the start of ocTEL I wrote the following blog post around the BIG technology enhanced learning questions. I was concerned with the wider questions around: Political changes in the education system Change occurring in society (e.g. technology) Interpreting and understanding how these affect both …

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#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.1

Reflecting on evaluation instruments / tools. Whilst being quite familiar with evaluation tools such as Bristol Online Surveys, SurveyMonkey and evaluative tools in VLEs such as Blackboard I have chosen a bespoke use of Moodle to perform an evaluation for study days. The Context and Tool There was a need …

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#ocTEL Week 10 – Activity 10.3 Extended: An Evaluation of my own participation in #ocTEL

I’m finally joining in again at the end.  As ocTEL is finishing this week after its first run and I have been being a lurker rather than an active participant since week 4-5, although I did tutor on week 5 and 7. Tutoring was good but often meant that in …

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#ocTEL week 10 Reflecting on the ocTEL experience

My big question from the start of the course was  ‘How do we use technologies to enrich teaching and encourage our students to use them to enrich their learning, while still respecting individual differences and preferences? While I don’t think I have answered this question during the 11 weeks of participation, I have widened my appreciation of […]

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#ocTEL week 10 Reflecting on the ocTEL experience

My big question from the start of the course was  ‘How do we use technologies to enrich teaching and encourage our students to use them to enrich their learning, while still respecting individual differences and preferences? While I don’t think I have answered this question during the 11 weeks of participation, I have widened my appreciation of […]

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MOOCS: P2 W0 D1 L1

Okay, so it’s confession time, I haven’t been engaging with the ocTEL MOOC since having signed up back in April! MOOC 1 – 0 Phil I started with the best of intentions, as I’m sure we all do, but life

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MOOCS: P2 W0 D1 L1

Okay, so it’s confession time, I haven’t been engaging with the ocTEL MOOC since having signed up back in April! MOOC 1 – 0 Phil I started with the best of intentions, as I’m sure we all do, but life

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#ocTEL Week 9 Risk Management

This week’s activity is called”Cheating Murphy’s Law”. I was about to embark on the first activity – reviewing a previous project and saying where it had gone wrong, what I would do differently etc when real life intervened and I was suddenly confronte…

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Live by the sword… (MOOCs)

Using technology in instruction, meetings, or presentations has always been a double-edged sword. The more it is depended on, the more spectacular are the failures when technology doesn’t cooperate.  When technology is so fully integrated into the…

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