Saturday 18 April 2009

First day in the Campus week

It was really nice meeting the three guys who is participating in this course. I was impressed by their ideas about what course they were thinking about creating themselves. I think we had some good discussions and that we started a good process on what is going to be their final work.

Now the weather is too good to sit inside anylonger so I think we should end the work today and start to look at the surroundings of Bergen.

Friday 17 April 2009

TO MORROW

....the campus week with our e-pedagogy students will start! I'm excited about meeting our new participants and do hope we will have a good time together even though we will be a very small group. Starting the course on a Saturday and working on Sunday is not ideal, but still a good solution since several people could not stay the whole next week. So we will work and then do some sightseeing in the afternoon. I hope the weather will be good as it is to day.

Thursday 19 March 2009

EVALUATION OF THE WORKSHOP

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Anne Karin

Tuesday 17 March 2009

Making screen lectures

WHat is a screen lecture???
Well this was the subject today. XAvier managed to have an interactive lecture with our partners and different and good ideas came up about what is a good screen lecture.
It has many of the same features as an ordinary lecture. It should be engaging, interesting, trigger the students interests and have a portion of humor.
One thing i the ideal and another thing is to manage to do this in front of a camera in a language which is not your mother tongue. - It is not easy.
We did try all of us, and some good examples came up. Rina and I had some fun in front of the camera I think. It was a too long recording, but I think it was a good try. We was speaking more freely about our own city and interviewing each other in a way. Too short time however to edit and to put in the pictures that could have made the presentation better.
I had to leave the group 16:30 to join Bieke for her recording of AI. I think she did a good job. But everytime we experience that it is important to have a good manuscript, and to be well prepared by knowing the text as best as you can to bring in the feelings and emotions in the speach.

Well non of us is professional television persons so we all have to learn the skiills to come out of the screen.

It was a long days work. We continued till 19:00 with the recording.
To morrow we will be focusing on the trigger production.

Monday 16 March 2009

1 day in the workshop

Well at the moment I am saticfied with the first day. I'm tired after a long days work and a very good meel at Neptun. It was in a way a little bit scary when Benjamin started to go through the menue with us, and I think that people had the same thought as me, will we manage this together?
BUT WE DID!! And the workpackage 8 in SW-VirCAmp - collaboration and companionship went very well. It was a demanding workpackage done in 2 hours with three main deliverables: starter, main course and dessert.

Well this was the evening. I think the day also went well. I'm curious to see how many of us that manage to write their blog to night, because there was no time for that in the end of the working day.
To morrow we will start with a report and reflection of yesterday.
I think it has been nice meeting the new participants, and I hope they will feel good together with the rest of the gang that have met and worked together for a while.