losing focus?

There just don't seem to be enough hours in the day to do some reflection and blogging. Together anyway. I am enjoying exploring the variety of web 2.0 tools out there but have been benefitting on more of a personal level than a professional one. Perhaps because I am at the stragetic level rather than the coal face within my organization? Developing training strategies which could use these tools is more in the realm of some of my colleagues. And it looks like I am staying where I am for the next several years so my work won't see much increase though as our integrated learning environment rolls out, there may be some more opps at my level. TIme will tell. In the meantime, this works for me as student. Perhaps I should post some of my course work on facebook for my friends to see what I have been doing. Is that too boring??!

a pause that refreshes

The past two weeks have been very busy while working on my course assignment. Using Web 2.0 tools to create a presentation on a Web 2.0 tool definitely took me outside my comfort zone. I am more accustomed to writing essays and the like.

For this course, I had to come up with my design concept, then figure out how to execute it by determining the appropriate content and translating that content into the audio, video and slide formats, finally assembling them into the complete presentation. The saving grace, for me anyway, was that we had to post a draft version the week before the final one. That forced me to find out what worked and didn't work in a less threatening fashion, then incorporate the feedback from my peers into improving the final version. A great learning strategy which bears repeating. Thanks everyone.

Now I can relax a bit and continue to work on my concept map.

Cheers