460616 Week 1

Have just completed the first Skype discussion and its great to hear that this unit will not require listening to recorded lectures and has an experiential learning approach. I am thinking at this point that this environment will be like an online folder where I will keep all the information and learning so that when the access to the unit disappears after the unit is completed I will still have a record of resources and things I found to be important/interesting/of use in the future..

I have selected a wiki for PLE as I am familiar with this wiki environment. I like the ability to organise the learning into sections (pages) and that it easy to embed widgets, files, images, videos etc.

I considered facebook but do not wish to share my learning journey with all my facebook friends - not that I have hundreds.

However may change my mind and use google groups - see what happens next week after further discussion. I am not sure about access to google groups for others to contribute i.e. if they have to have a google account.

Virtual Learning Environment assessment:

Starting a new job in Faster care and Friends of Foster Care in recruitment, assessment and training. Considering setting up a learning environment for training, induction and strengthening the volunteer carers network across the region.Starting on 22-3-10 so will have to suss that out.