ETL411 - I'm starting on Assignment II

I'm starting on assignment II for ETL411, and part of the assignment will need to focus on some skills that I have learnt.

I hope writing this blog entry will stimulate some ideas which I can use later on, and perhaps this entry can be included as a reference or in the appendix.

I'm sitting here thinking about what I have learnt in using facebook for educational purposes? Well I'm familar with the basics of facebook, but what about in an educational context? Hey this is the first time that I am doing this so thats something new.

But what did I learn?

• Posting content in a professional manner.
• Using the word document feature "create doc" as they call it to post a document.
  
• Applying basic web ettiquete - no personal attacks or harassing others, showing respect for other views.

But frankily, I didnt learn much else. I didn't really refine my skills either. Nothing wrong in admitting that when I do the evaluation and reflection.

But what about in professional practice? What implications does this have for me?

I am personally not keen to use facebook for educational purposes just yet. I just want to see some research and practice in this area given the legal issues that schools have with it. I do like the fact that the group in which I take part in for the unit is exclusive - I don't have to be their friend on facebook to join. The creator of the group (lecturer) is the one who decides and the parameters were spelt out very clearly.

I thought about the web publishing skills that I have learn't and I have come a very long way. In an undergrad assignment at ACU in 2009, the marker felt the asthetics were a problem as the page was "plain". To address this, I did google searches to learn the basics of my web publishing software (NVU) such as adding backgrounds, images and files. It was straightforward. It was a little time consuming at times, but I had to take my time if I was to create the site that I wanted.
Obviously I typed the paper on Microsoft Word, did the editing and did a simple copy and paste. I was also able to make adjustments in Microsoft Word 2007 in the final stages though some features were changed and had to be changed again e.g random font changes.

Uploading the site proved to be quite easy once I listened to the podcast that was provided. You upload your html page, the files that will support the content and change the paths to the relevant directory and presto it was there. It was done and I had the page that I wanted. I hope everyone likes it.