Sunday, August 5, 2012
Reflections after viewing other blogs
So, I'm in the midst of trying to organize myself to complete my project. The Google course is so huge, with so many overlapping threads, I find it hard to know sometimes where to begin. I just finished looking at the Blogs of all the Berlin participants. Inspiring to see everyone's creativity and unique ways of doing things. I'd like to cultivate a sense of fearless exploration that I saw in a few of the blogs. Having a goal (for example to add a video to a blog, changing the site - using colors and a theme. As opposed to thinking this is my final and perfected blog - it's a work in progress and a site to reflect on the many tools we explored in our week of classes. I liked a the idea of keeping notes after e.g. creating a form - to help avoid pitfalls in future form creation.As I go through some of the readings and find videos to explore which then lead me to further videos - realize I have to reign my explorations a bit and get down to the task at hand of actually working on my own site.
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Thank you Elizabeth about your encouraging thoughts Re: our blogs do not have to be perfect and are a work in progress. It does seem pretty overwhelming to a novice like myself. We have been fortunate to have the resources both online and with the instructors, but especially we have each other. We have a new tool to work collaboratively, which is especially importance considering how hard it is to meet in person.
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ReplyDeleteI too learned a lot by reading other people's blogs. I hope you have gotten a good start on your project now, and don't get bogged down by too much stuff. Remember that you intend the final project to be really useful to you- I think you should go for using the tools that make sense for your project. I found that, of course, delving into actually using the tools has been much more enjoyable and stimulating than just reading and talking about using the tools. Good luck!
Elizabeth, I am also a bit overwhelmed with all these new tools and possibilities. In retrospect, I think this course is better as a weekly class and not condensed. It takes time and practice to master each skill; it's impossible to master them all in a week. I'd like to audit the class sometime just to get all the stuff I missed. Meanwhile, I see this summer class as a providing me with a road map for how I can become more Google savvy - rather than feeling like I have to learn it all by next Thursday. It's alot of fun - isn't it?
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