Jose-H808 - The eLearning professional - PDP Form (MyStuff) at 25-10-08

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Jose-H808 - The eLearning professional - PDP Form (MyStuff) at 25-10-08
Training or development
Title for training or development Jose-H808 - The eLearning professional - PDP Form (MyStuff) at 25-10-08
Organisation or provider OU
Type training course
From date 06/09/2008
To date 25/01/2009
Ongoing Ongoing
Actions and dates to action
Action / Date
Outcomes
Learning objectives
• Familiarise self with debate about learning objects including respositories, metadata and IMS standards
• Gain insight into guiding online discussions and key factors for developing online communities
• Try out more audio-visual tools such as Skype (eg Netmeeting)
• Familiarise self with a variety of models for elearning
• Gain further ideas for online activities and an awareness for situations where they would be appropriate
• Look into how sensitive and critical comments are given to others (students and tutors) in an online environment, improve own techniques
• Familiarise self with some of the research behind elearning
• Try out a selection of common elearning platforms
• Familiarise self with methods for tackling plagiarism and digital copyright issues
• Look into ways online games are used in learning
• Develop working knowledge of, and ability to effectively use, key elearning technologies (e.g. eportfolios, wikis, blogs, learning journals, etc.)
• Improve, and document, own Critical Personal Reflection

Skills and/or expertise developed
• First experience with:
- (Skills) an eportfolio: MyStuff (Ongoing)
producing eportfolio items
tagging items
filling out first Training and Development Form
- (Skills) electronically annotating a pdf file (Unit 3)
- (Skills) creating a Local Area Network (LAN) (Unit 3)
- (Skills) editing a wiki (Unit 4)
- (Skills) making and publishing a podcast (Unit 4)
- (Skills) adding subtitles to video (Unit 4)
- (Skills) using a mind-mapping tool: FreeMind (Unit 4)
- (Skills/Proactivity) producing HowTo guides (Unit 4)
- (Proactivity) attempting to lead, inform or otherwise motivate others in an elearning context (Ongoing)

• Continuing experience with:
- (Skills) using and publishing a blog (Ongoing)
- (Skills/Proactivity) using/collaborating in online forums (Ongoing)
- (Skills) editing video (Unit 4)
- (Reflection) critical self-reflection (Ongoing)
- (Critique) analysis and critique of the practice of others (Ongoing)
- (Proactivity) attempting to lead, inform or otherwise motivate others (Ongoing)


General
Notes A lot of the above taken from:
- Barritt, O. (2008) "MOADE - H808 The Elearning professional", shared MyStuff item, (accessed 25th October 2008)
- Open University, (2008) "H808-Assignment guide 2008.pdf", (accessed 3rd October 2008)
- Open University, (2008) "H808-Course-guide-08.pdf", (accessed 3rd October 2008)
- Stan, M. (2008) "Personal development Objectives for H808", shared MyStuff item, accessed 25th October 2008
Tagged with H808 . PDP . training and development . reflection . skills . proactivity . critique .

1 comments
Alan Clarke on Sunday, October 26th, 2008, 11:29 PM says (privately)

Hi Jose

A well presented and detailed plan - it is clearly ambitous in the range and scale of the objectives - however, it demonstrates enthusiasm and motivation. You have tried to identify skills and knowledge already acquired through the course amd acknowledge sources. A very good effort

Cheers

Alan

(New) CA3.1-My strengths and weaknesses as an elearning professional (from 12-10-08)

24 Oct 2008, 09:10

Edited by Jose Martel Penate, 24 Oct 2008, 09:12

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From: Jose Martel Penate 12 October 2008 08:50:18
Subject: (New) CA3.1-My strengths and weaknesses as an elearning professional
To: H808 ac6 08 Unit 3

Alan asked me to try to use my face-to-face teaching experience in this activity.

So I made a combined PDP needs analysis grid (please see "Jose-CA3.1-PDP combined needs analysis grid.pdf" that was shared with everyone in Alan's tutor group on 11/10/08).

Strengths

I tend to be good at analysing situations and providing solutions.
I'm not really a people-person, but I see the value of getting along and much prefer to.
Given the choice, I prefer not to lead, but if I have to, I will.
I'm comfortable with reflection, however, I sometimes forget that other people aren't.
I'm willing to put in the time to pass this course and my wife supports me.
I believe I have the reflective ability, language skills, mental agility...and...uhmm?...to pass this course.
I value a professional attitude and prefer to strive toward professionalism.
I prefer to do things well.
Pressure can often help me excel.
I'm comfortable using computers, and having used and owned macs and pcs over a number of years has helped me be, and feel, more proficient.
I'm good at abstract thought; I'm a good listener; I can be good at seeing things from other people's point of view.
I enjoy learning and thinking.
If I know what I'm talking about then I'm usually ok at meetings, discussions, etc.
Being bilingual and having lived in a number of different societies/cultures helps me relate more easily to people.
For such a negative person at heart, I can be surprisingly positive.
I have theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching techniques, methods, approaches, etc.
I have face-to-face teaching experience with up to 65 students per class.


Weaknesses

I can be a bit of a perfectionist: given 8 hours to finish, I will finish in 8 hours. But given 2 hours, I will finish in 2 hours and possibly more creatively.
I'm currently living in a society that values appearance, networking and bureaucracy. I'm not sure that the Western concept of professionalism is understood here. This means that I have little external motivation to work toward professionalism here.
A lot of what I'm learning on this course is new to me, and I've never studied at this level before.
Sometimes I seem to have a kind of mental block when learning something new. I can talk about the thing, I can have the idea in my head, but I feel no connection to it. I sometimes think I need to experience in order to learn.


Well, a bit of a mixed bag (is that a strength or a weakness?).
And was that reflection or just description?

Jose



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From: Alan Clarke 12 October 2008 23:59:24
Subject: Re: (New) CA3.1-My strengths and weaknesses as an elearning professional
To: H808 ac6 08 Unit 3

Hi Jose

I would judge the paper as overall reflective in character rather than simple description

Cheers

Alan

Reflections on my strengths and weaknesses as an elearning practitioner

10 Oct 2008, 14:20

Edited by Jose Martel Penate, 10 Oct 2008, 14:24

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Well, I'm not an elearning practitioner.


But let me trudge on anyway...


Strengths:

NONE - I have everything to learn
ALL - I will learn everything from my grounding in professionalism gained from H808

Weaknesses:

I have everything to learn



Notes written as I prepared the PDP grid:

Yourself compared with other "teachers"(?). Or should I compare myself with (what I perceive to be the abilities of) the other students?
Might it be better to compare myself with where I should be when I'm an elearning professional?
I may as well compare myself to an ideal standard.
I suppose I should be comparing myself to elearning professionals - the ideal elearning professional.

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I have had big problems doing this grid. I think it's because I have no (clear) frame of reference.
I'm doing this course (and the rest of the MAODE) because I hope it will be useful for me in the future.
But I'm not sure what exactly I will learn on this course, and I'm not sure what exactly I will need to know to be an elearning professional.
I also assume that I will learn as I go along. Of course knowing is better than assuming.
I have no-one to compare myself with - my fellow students are words on a screen, and my colleagues are happy ambling along.