#ocTEL - Week 0 – Expectations, Familiarisation & Practice
OK, so sitting here in Melbourne, Australia, I am not going to attend many (any?) live Webinars run in sensible UK times that would have me bleary eyed despite any good intentions to join in. So I aim to watch the recordings. The first one watched, and available as Blackboard Collaborate session or via YouTube:Learning the Ropes - ocTEL 2014 Week 0 Webinar
The tips I picked up to help towards answering my question of the previous post follow.
From facilitators and previous students or both:
Quote/paraphrase
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My notes
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Sue
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No way can you even get through half the content
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So no content curation?
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Encourages engagement with others as more important
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Therefore, connectivism?
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Sue moderates Yammer for ocTEL
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Link into this with my Yammer account.
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Martin
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Important to update your personal spaces online – which are pushed back to ocTEL community
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Doing now.
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If no blog, can join up with a group to discuss different topics, or use Google+, or bookmarking sites like Delicious, Scoop.it, etc.
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Start a separate blog – i.e. this.
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Points to the ocTEL ‘Reader’
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Found it; it lists all linked up blogs, etc.
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Elizabeth
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Limit to ‘if I only do one thing’ activity to get some traction, and lurking is OK until find your feet
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Good. Sounds achievable.
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Groups this year look geographical, c/- last year which were job related
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Hmmm; geographical I understand re time zones, but …
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Have a big question, which may change/evolve from week to week, to help focus your pathway (and not get overwhelmed)
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OK
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E visited frequently, but in small time spans, 2-3 times per week after completing the ‘one thing’, to read, reflect, respond.
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Good again. Sounds achievable.
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Jim
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Make a plan, a participation pathway, with own key questions
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OK.
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Example, do 30 minutes/day in ocTEL – no such thing as being behind
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Sounds achievable.
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Sandra
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Got through ocTEL 2013 by mainly working engaging on Sundays
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Found what ‘everybody’ was saying was very interesting
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Used forum on site (had no blog of own) and downloaded all (own?) work to reflect on post course
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Handy, but I’ve purpose created this blog, so I’ll be able to access my stuff…
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Found Twitter helpful
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I’ve linked my Twitter; I better start using it for ocTEL instead of always doing political or movie Tweets…
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David
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Why does ocTEL encourage own blog? So you keep your record.
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Good advice.
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Badges – new feature this year
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Martin
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5 Badges within each week; different badges, some for credit just for turning up, another for completing the “one thing”, and more
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Look out for and claim badges (I got 1 badge from early in the OLDS MOOC for completing Week 1 activities & it gave me at least a tiny sense that I’d achieved something)
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Benefits of badges include looking to see who else is active
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Looking at providing ‘open’ badges, that can be used on own sites, etc.
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Cool - I believe there is a badge to get now that I've watched to Webinar... quickly I go to retrieve now...
