My notes from week five in PLENK2010

My notes from week four? Here they are

My notes from week three? Here they are
My notes from week two? Here they are
My notes from week one? Here they are

Hope it's not too late for participating in the Friday Session discussion in PLENK2010

I am to slow to say something in the sessions but better late than never:-).

A clip from the Friday session where Stephen Downes speaks.

I understood that

• One long term goal was to get to know the city

• Short term goals was to move to place A, B, C

A review could be:

Good! You managed to:

• Set a goal but still stay open minded for other paths
• Choose a method but still stay open minded for other paths
• Remain curious and mindful along the way
• Eventually reach A, B C..
• Reflect over the outcome
• Realize that side-effects had a relation to your long term goal

Good skills for exploring (a city for example)!

But note, if the long term goal instead would have been to learn and practice how to plan more effectively. Maybe a good review would not have been given to you.

My point is that the validation of the outcome in some way must depend on the long-term and short-term goals. Of course the goal can be flexible. (Maybe this is the landmarks mentioned in the clip?) But the person that evaluates needs to be aware of your goals. Like a life-coach.

How can we NOT learn by living?

The challenge is, as I see it, to learn in the direction you want to learn.

Goals and sub-goals as tags in blogposts in MOOC´s like PLENK2010 for following progress?

This school year I made a natural science course in Blogger for my students.

I tagged the different posts (tasks) with the different goals for the course. This as an attempt to make the goals more clear for the students. And then I also made a tag cloud from the tags.

But what if it instead was a MOOC like PLENK? And if the students had their own blog/portfolio/PLE with their own goals and sub-goals? And if they then tagged each of their posts with the proper goal(s)/sub-goal(s)? And then made a tag cloud from it?

Would this make it easier to follow the progress and to assess?

When you miss fast feedback and ratings in PLENK2010

you can always

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/sheep/reaction_version5.swf

for a while.

Assessment when I set my own goals ? Maybe I could have my blog as my portfolio from the moment I declare my goals. My first blogpost should then describe my goals. And the last one should show that I have reached my goals. And the posts in between show how I reached them. A portfolio like that would be possible to rate I think.

My Notes from Week Four in PLENK2010

My notes from week three? Here they are
My notes from week two? Here they are
My notes from week one? Here they are