Tuesday 18 March 2008

Working on the course again

To day I have been preparing the weekly programmes. I have been looking for some literature about competence based curriculum planning and from my search in Google I came over an article and a ppt made by my colleague and friend Jan Agten at the KHKempen in Belgium. I think I will present this in the course. I have also been thinking that may be Jan could come to Bergen and make a short screen lecture about this?? I also found an article about Gender and Competence-based training
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/ampro/cinterfor/publ/gen_cbt/index.htm.
This I have to look into more, it seems interesting.

I think that making good competence based curriculum plans are difficult. I notice when I look into the plan for this course that many things might have been different. I hope my students in the course will comment on this and help to improve the course. Meanwhile it has to be like it is for now:)

This morning I planned the Skjerjehamn seminar. There will be 1o participants and they have a many different and interesting subject they want to present. I'm also looking forward to show them all the nature at Skjerjehamn and do hope people will enjoy this stay. You can take a look at the website http://www.skjerjehamn.no/

I looked into Mortens blog in it's learning to day. Found some interesting reflections on difficulties by using the blog, or technical limitations. Probably that's why he recommended me to start to use the Google blogger. I have to be more familiar with this tool and make more experiments.

I contacted my contact in Germany that has used the conference room VITERO to day. Finally the company made contact with me as well and we will set up appointments where we can use this tool and see how it works. This will be part of the course when people come to Bergen in May.

Well, this has to be all for to day. I want to look at some crim films on TV.

Tuesday 4 March 2008

preparing e-pedagogy course

To day I have been working together with Morten F. at the Media Centre on the construction of the e-ped. course. We want to bring in more people to do presentations in the course to give the participants variation. We have decided to introduce blogger as a tool for reflection on learning in the course and I'm curious about how the participants will react on that. Are they already bloggers or will it be their first time?
I notice my own reactions when starting this blogpage. A lot of different choices have to be taken; what skin? what name? how will I present myself? in what way am I going to express myself in this room? What editing functions are there, what am I allowed to do? And will this be a useful tool for presenting my own reflections on the e-teacher role and will other people be interested to participate in this?