premesis of virtual learning

we decided to change to the blog:

www.slyhauseb.edublogs.org

there is allready  my article about e-learning

through that blog administration.

Seems to me a bit overcrowded, so many options in the admins menue without priority-listings, so that you have to have a lot of time to find your way.  I am still not able to find out, how to delete or edit our “about” text. Hmm, maybe my fault, because i am more used to wikis

our first task for the seminar was to write about our expectations for the seminar and experiences with e-learning. My short comment on the wiki is repeated below:

Well,
my interests in the seminar are on the one side comparing technical systems in their “social software context” meaning which kind of e-learning platform has what kind of picture of educational processes as software-development-basis.
On the other side i am interested to exchange experiences with e-learning in schools and other fields as i am studying as a teacher for informatics.
Third point would be that i am interested to develop my english conversation skills and widen my view on learning processes in different contexts outside hamburg university.

For the second question i would just comment some experiences i made with wiki, moodle and commsy technology. As the wiki process is a quite transparent and open one, when i was setting up a wiki once it was very positive to have even non-finished content allready sorted and available via internet from everywhere. other people can easily develop content in a cooporative way and via history you can recognise any changes later on. So i really like wikis for coordinating, developing documents and exchanging information. The moodle platform has a much more restrictive and observing context. it is possible to check, how often somebody “was there” and the roles of participants are of more importance, than on a wiki where there are all participants working on the “same level”.
The third is commsy, which is good for exchanging documents and has a clear structure of distinction between scheldules, announcements, groups and so on. on the other side it is not handy for documentary purposes.

thats it for the beginning
Hauke

http://loveitorchangeit.com/seminars/summer2008/2008/03/19/task-1-how-about-yourself/#comment-6

As we decided on tuesday, we are going to write our “seminar-diary” with two persons using this one blog. possible we decide later to change something or maybe also to create a kind of dialoge about aspects of e-learning and questions raised by the seminar. maybe sly is going to correct my non-correct english as well

[02.04.08 by: hau]