Observations of the speed of learning

Can’t quite believe it was only just over a week ago I sat in the E-Learning Experience Block Class as a Newbie. I was excited but definitely worried about how/if/what I was going to learn. 

In the last week I have:

- Participated in a Collaborative Web space - Ning

- Set up this weblog from scratch - Edublogs

- Learnt a whole new range of technologies I didn’t know existed 

My learning style has been definately influence by immersion and trial and error. I have completely thrown myself into the online space by spending time and concentrated effort on acheiving some tangible outcomes to show progress and have little milestones to remind myself of how far I have come.

For example, this Weblog is tangible evidence to me that I have acheived a certain level of competency in mastering the edublogs software.

Each day I would go back and re-look at my weblog and think of ways I could improve it. 

I would add a widget here, delete a widget there and rearrange pages and categories.  I am sure it will be forever a work in progress.

The readings have supported and reinforced my learnings however I realised I much prefer playing in the online space. I prefer to search for videos and slideshows which discuss and visually represent the theory.

Part of what is working for me is understanding my own learning style and finding knowledge and information in the online space which engages me and is relevant to my current learning focus. 

I am still amazed  it has only been 7 days…..

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