elearnz » Term One http://elearnz.edublogs.org An elearning journey Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:05:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Enrolments, telephones and cars! http://elearnz.edublogs.org/2008/02/11/enrolments-telephones-and-cars/ http://elearnz.edublogs.org/2008/02/11/enrolments-telephones-and-cars/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:23:59 +0000 mrsuds http://elearnz.edublogs.org/2008/03/21/enrolments-telephones-and-cars/ Much of my time in the second week was completing, changing, adding enrolments. At times I felt I was permanently chained to my laptop as email after email came rolling in. But there was something rather fun about it all and I finally felt I was beginning to do my job and not just reading about it!

When I wasn’t on my emails I was in town searching out cellphone plans. I finally managed to sort one out, but it did surprise me how long it took.

Then I drove out Methven way to sort out a car which I have already clocked some miles on!

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I also found out I would be teaching Classical Studies to some students in Twizel and Mt Hutt. This prospect was extremely exciting. I am a Social Scientist by trade, with History and Classical Studies as my senior subjects. I have used online tools to add to my courses for quite some time, but I was looking forward to taking to the next level – which this was definitely going to require. At this stag the cluster doesn’t really have an online environment / learning management system so I decided I would use a blog to deliver the course to my students. It has worked really well and I like how the students are starting to contribute.

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