e-chronicle

This is the last assignment for EMT1 - YEAH! Click here to read my reflection of the group process in the learning community design. The reflection addresses the following:

• description and analysis of the group process
• synthesis of readings and research
• reflection of how this process can further inform my experiences of learning communities.

I recently participated in a group project which involved designing an e-learning community. I have put up the design here on this page - SANJT: and e-learning community for 1st year nursing students. Alternatively, you can check out the wiki. Go to http://sanjt.wikispaces.com/

I would like to credit the contributions of my fellow group members: Nic Brett, Sabina Levine and Trent McAllan.

Hi, everyone. I had to be out of the scene for the last few weeks due to personal reasons. Anyway, I’m back. So keep a look out for more regular posts henceforth!

I started this blog on 9 March 2008 (a requirement of my part-time study in e-learning) as a total blog virgin. And here I am, 10 days later…and it’s been an amazing 10 days…it’s beyond words! I didn’t even know what a widget was prior to 9 March, or blogroll, or even the difference between a post and a page. Who’d have thought…

Click here (for EMT1) and here (for EMT2) to follow the weekly readings and activities in my e-learning journey…

The two pages will (hopefully) be updated on a weekly basis. So keep a look out for new, exciting stuff every week!

At the start of the block-mode class recently, we were asked to come up with 3 tags to describe ourselves. It’s interesting to recall the 3 tags that I mentioned (I was the first to go, and I’m not particularly quick on my feet!), and how differently I feel now.

I said I was excited (about the course), committed (to do well), and apprehensive (about returning to study after an absence of 10 years). In hindsight, these 3 tags didn’t describe who I was; they merely described how I felt.

The excitement has been replaced by worry and more apprehension. I still want to commit myself to this, but am finding it tough to maintain an ongoing passion-based learning.

Anyway, if I could re-tag myself, I’d have said: perfectionist, pessimist, worrywart!

My name is Joseph Yeo. I am the Student Administrator at the ELSSA Centre in the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). In a nutshell, the ELSSA Centre is a small academic unit that provides academic language and literacy skills assistance to UTS staff and students. I’m also a casual tutor with Charles Darwin University (yes, in Darwin, NT!), in a compulsory 1st year subject on academic literacies.

I’m also a part-time postgraduate student in UTS, studying for my M.A. in e-Learning. This is my first semester, and I’m enrolled in two subjects: e-Learning Experiences, Models and Theories (EMT) 1 & 2.

It’s been more than ten years since I assumed the role as a student (in the formal sense) - did my M.Litt. in Sydney Uni in 1997 - so I’m quite apprehensive about being a student again for the next two years.

I’ve created this blog to chronicle my e-learning journey, and you are invited to share in my joy and woes, tears and fears, and witness my growth in the field of e-learning.

Welcome aboard.