Right, things are getting serious now; if I want to leave 2 weeks for the ECA I need to finish units 8, 9 and 10 this week.
I'm amazed, with so little time left till the end of the course, that the tutors still haven't made a meaningful return to the forums.
I've read some other people's contributions (from the forums and their shared blogs) which have helped calm my nerves and given me some ideas (Emma, Colleen, Jim, Nigel S, Keely, Karen).
Let's see if I can post this to my blog today. I've had access problems again lately. Now I can usually view the blog but I can't edit the posts (I wanted to add tags to the posts that don't have them, which is about 90%), I wanted to change the name of the blog from "Metacog-what??!!) to something more formal/boring like "H808 blog". As I write this I'm still waiting for the blog to open. This morning I woke up thinking that I should perhaps move to a blog that actually allows me to use it 24/7. Some 3 years ago I blogged for about half a year. The experience was very positive as access was 24/7 and the blogs themselves had much greater functionality/"customisability". There was a definite sense of community that was enhanced by the blogs - not impeded by them.
It would be very nice if I got my TMA02 results back. I'd like to see the comments well before I have to write for the ECA. But Alan gave me an extension and my TMA02 was finally handed in on 26th Dec (coz of a couple of days of formatting problems).
Well, after 20 mins the blog still isn't opening. I started a blog for my students on Blogger so I know that it's accessible here in China. I'll open one for H808 now. This is very disappointing. Not at all what I expected when I started this course.
Ok, I've set up my new blog. It's at http://jmartel-h808-blog.blogspot.com/ . But I can't move posts over because I can't access my OU blog!!!!!!!!!! I've tried using Safari, Firefox and IE on a Mac, and IE7, Firefox and Safari using XP. At least my blog is showing no favouritism...Ah, I spoke too soon, a few minutes later IE7 on XP opened my blog - with errors, however the main text is visible. Then I tried to add a post and it's now loading interminably. Ok, time to forget moving the blog. I'll do that when I can.
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Hi Jose
ReplyDeletethis looks very nice! Although I've set up a Blogger Blog, I'm sticking eith OU just now to avoid my own confusion...
Yes, it is very quiet out there - I've been wondering where everyone has gone. The community seems to have dwindled to a few of us who are trying to juggle all the balls. I'm finding that some of the activities, particulaly some of the supplementary ones aren't working very well simply as there are are not enough people contributing. Anyway, Good luck. My goals are the same as yours. Get the main course units finished by the weekend and hope there's enough time to complete the ECA to a decent standard!
Karen
Hi Jose
ReplyDeleteWelcome back to "Blogger" land (not that I'm plugging it or anything). I can imagine it's a sense of accomplishment and being in command .. that must make it this especially satisfying.
Jim
Hi Karen and Jim,
ReplyDeleteThanks for popping in.
Yep, it's nice here,
Shame it's only for 3 weeks.
But I think I'll set up another Blogger blog for my next OU course.
Jose