Dear Social Computers,
Grades and comments have been left on your e-portfolios for Lesson 7. I also checked for any late submissions, there were just a couple.
There were also three (3) revisions of assignments that had already been submitted and graded. I noted this new work in my overall considerations of your final grade for the course, but please understand that a grading system that allows for open revision of work that was already graded would be unworkable, a course could never end.
Thank you for the feedback on the End of Semester Survey, it is useful for me in a number of ways.
Although, I do wish we could have talked more about ways to improve the course in other ways too.
All the best to you.
Sincerely,
Owen.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
SCICU Information: Lessons grades update
Dear SCICU class,
I have just caught up with grading, mostly Lessons 4, 5, and 6, but did go through each portfolio and graded a few late postings for Lesson 2 and 3 as well. You may access your grades as usual in the comments for each lesson post on your e-portfolio. I am sorry that I fell behind on grading, I need to do better.
A couple Lesson 6 posts were incomplete, missing the graph of survey results. Yet, I do know that those particular students did complete the graph in their spreadsheet. In this case, I am confused why it was not included in the post for Lesson 6.
Tomorrow may be our last class. However, I am looking forward to learning more about Zotero tomorrow, when you are teaching.
I have just caught up with grading, mostly Lessons 4, 5, and 6, but did go through each portfolio and graded a few late postings for Lesson 2 and 3 as well. You may access your grades as usual in the comments for each lesson post on your e-portfolio. I am sorry that I fell behind on grading, I need to do better.
A couple Lesson 6 posts were incomplete, missing the graph of survey results. Yet, I do know that those particular students did complete the graph in their spreadsheet. In this case, I am confused why it was not included in the post for Lesson 6.
Tomorrow may be our last class. However, I am looking forward to learning more about Zotero tomorrow, when you are teaching.
Best, Owen.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Adding value to GDS and You!
1. If you could start posting work and other kinds of information to your GDS Inbox by email, what kinds of information might you send? What purposes could this serve for you?
Click 'Upload' button to find your GDS email address. Add your GDS inbox to your list of contacts.
2. Tracking activity. If you could keep up to date on changes that collaborators make to shared documents, by adding the RSS of the documents to your GReader, what kinds of documents might you want to track? What purposes could this serve for you?
To see a document's RSS feed, open a document and click the Collaborate tab. Then, click "View RSS feed of document changes" (on the right side).
3. Personal knowledge database. Your Web research, as well as when you create documents in GDS, publish them to the WWW, tag them, and save them to Delicious is one way to map the knowledge centers of your brain. Each tag can represent a node of understanding and your tags visualise what you know, for yourself, and for others. In what different ways might a map of your brain be useful?
Please see Wikipedia "Tag Cloud". Click to make your own Delicious tag cloud. My Delicious 'brain' is shown in the post above.
Click 'Upload' button to find your GDS email address. Add your GDS inbox to your list of contacts.
2. Tracking activity. If you could keep up to date on changes that collaborators make to shared documents, by adding the RSS of the documents to your GReader, what kinds of documents might you want to track? What purposes could this serve for you?
To see a document's RSS feed, open a document and click the Collaborate tab. Then, click "View RSS feed of document changes" (on the right side).
3. Personal knowledge database. Your Web research, as well as when you create documents in GDS, publish them to the WWW, tag them, and save them to Delicious is one way to map the knowledge centers of your brain. Each tag can represent a node of understanding and your tags visualise what you know, for yourself, and for others. In what different ways might a map of your brain be useful?
Please see Wikipedia "Tag Cloud". Click to make your own Delicious tag cloud. My Delicious 'brain' is shown in the post above.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Links for Lesson 6: Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Explore (e-Portfolio)
It is easy to learn a new way to create, share, publish, collaborate, and access you work anywhere. The video that follows explains more about Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Watch it a few times, stop and start it at critical points (the narration is fast!), take some notes. Try to identify two or three things about using GDS that could make studying easier for you. Please watch this video.
Do
1. (ROW) SCICU set up. Please do these things:
a) Get Google Docs & Spreadsheets (GDS)
b) Make your GDS home one of your homepage tabs in Firefox (Tools>>Options>>Main)
4. (ROW) Put your results into a table. In Docs Home, create a new spreadsheet. Make a simple spreadsheet to display your results. Label the data in your spreadsheet e.g. Stumbling blocks in collaboration, Number of responses. You might like to refer to this sample data sheet, however, be sure to use categories which relate to the responses that you have collected.
It is easy to learn a new way to create, share, publish, collaborate, and access you work anywhere. The video that follows explains more about Google Docs and Spreadsheets. Watch it a few times, stop and start it at critical points (the narration is fast!), take some notes. Try to identify two or three things about using GDS that could make studying easier for you. Please watch this video.
Do
1. (ROW) SCICU set up. Please do these things:
a) Get Google Docs & Spreadsheets (GDS)
b) Make your GDS home one of your homepage tabs in Firefox (Tools>>Options>>Main)
4. (ROW) Put your results into a table. In Docs Home, create a new spreadsheet. Make a simple spreadsheet to display your results. Label the data in your spreadsheet e.g. Stumbling blocks in collaboration, Number of responses. You might like to refer to this sample data sheet, however, be sure to use categories which relate to the responses that you have collected.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Adding value to your e-Portfolio and you!
1. If you began posting your assignments to your e-portfolio and then inviting your professors to view them there, instead of or in addition to giving them a paper copy,
what advantages/disadvantages can you see?
2. If you could start posting work and other kinds of information to your e-portfolio by email, what kinds of information might you send? What purposes could this serve for you?
-> mail-to-Blogger address
3. In what situations might you want to share your research on your e-portfolio by embedding GReader?
-> Greader embedding
what advantages/disadvantages can you see?
2. If you could start posting work and other kinds of information to your e-portfolio by email, what kinds of information might you send? What purposes could this serve for you?
-> mail-to-Blogger address
3. In what situations might you want to share your research on your e-portfolio by embedding GReader?
-> Greader embedding
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