Reflect & Connect - it started with a goal

For the next few weeks or so will be concentrating on reflecting and connecting as I grow and develop my reflecting and connecting skills. Doing this great course - Reflect and Connect based on CHCORG428A Reflect on and improve own professional practice with Carole and Junita. So far have learned much. Watch my progress here - started with a goal:
"Firstly to develop a personal learning network and secondly to establish an eportfolio of my work to bring some order to bits and pieces I have scattered all over the internet. I would like to be able to show competencies to RPL towards my TAE qualification and to have them in an ordered place would be extremely helpful."
On some thought and reflection, came to the realization that:

"That my eyes were bigger than my belly: Like Sandra and following Monday night's session I have re-thought my goal and decided as usual, I was trying to fit way too much into my goal to be successfully achievable in the time frame available. On reflection I think it is much more reasonable to take one of those small steps and focus on a smaller more achievable goal in the time frame I have. Therefore my goal has altered to now gather my artifacts from this reflect and connect course to develop my e portfolio to use as an RPL for CHCORG428A Reflect on and improve own professional practice. Thinking about it, for me - this is what this course is all about.... reflecting and evaluating as you go and making adjustments to goals to make them more achievable. If I can accomplish this small step, it is then just a matter of applying the theory to the bigger picture ."

Reflect & Connect - my progress with mahara

Well it has been an interesting week! Have begun to sort out my eportfolio in Mahara.
Mahara seems to be a very professional looking and involved program to use however with a little playing in there I have managed to start filling in my profile, my resume and actually made a view to load in artifacts for the CHCORG428A  RPL process.
How would i rate Mahara ? It does take a little time to work it out, not a simple program to use, you need a little time to get your head around it and really you do need to plan what you are going to do before you start in Mahara, however I can see the merit in it. I have to say I was most impressed to find I could embed my external blog into there although not so impressed that I cant post into the blog from Mahara :(
Bottom line - I am very glad to have been able to experience Mahara under the support and guidance of the Reflect and Connect Team - Carole and Junita.

Reflect and Connect - A new beginning....

Started a course - Reflect and Connect!
My goals to achieve during the course - to develop an e-portfolio to use as a showcase of my abilities, gathering all the bits and pieces together as well as demonstrate the necessary competencies towards gaining my TAE via the RPL process.
I will use Mahara for this purpose and so will evaluate the process and mahara as an e-portfolio tool. Watch my journey through the course as I evaluate my processes and tools used. Post titles will contain the words "reflect and connect"!

Voki !

Okay, this tool is really fun to use especially creating your avatar - you can be very creative and easy to use too.
So here we go my first attempt at a voki lol:





If you have issues playing my voki, here is the link:

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=3800943&height=267&width=200

I was most impressed about what I could do with this tool and how I could implement it into my classroom activities to make learning more fun and its free!
Stay tuned for some more e-adventures been playing with lots of cool tools .........

Have just been experimenting with animoto! What a great little program this is. Very easy to use and produces lovely slideshows complete with transitions, music, text etc. Here is my first attempt -

Glogster!

Learned all about "Glogster" this week ! The opportunity to use it soon followed. I was driving home from work, listening to the radio as usual when the announcer kept using the word "segue". What tha! Naturally being a women I was able to retrieve a pen and scribble the word how I thought it was spelt on my hand as I was driving - carefully I might add and only at the stoplight ;) when I was stopped.
To cut a long story short find out all about segue in my first attempt at a glog!:

http://mevnci.edu.glogster.com/new-word/

I just think of all the ways you could use this application - a simple fun way to get your word across or tell a story, the possibilities are endless.

My "e-journey" so far.........

In 1996-7 saw a computer in the Radio Rental shop window - second hand for sale, became infatuated, bought it lol. It was from memory a windows 3.11 operating system. So then decided I needed some lessons and did a 40 hour intensive computer course at the local neighbourhood house using windows 95 and never looked back!
Following on from there several worked for several years part time repairing and upgrading computers amongst other things lol.
As a self confessed geek,  when I was introduced to elearning through ACFE in my curent position at the Mt Eliza Village Neighbourhood Centre I grabbed it and ran! So here I am just really starting to embed my elearning and create my digital footprint!