Blog 3

This week we began searching for more articles to support our topics and annotated bibliographies. My topic is Motivation in E-learning. I started with Keeping E-learners Interested, but I think Motivation in E-learning is a more direct approach and that I'll be able to find more supporting articles for that topic. So far I have three of the necessary articles for the bibliography. One of the articles discusses five strategies to enhance learner motivation in e-learning design. It tells how to incorporate past successful instructional enhancers into current e-learning courses. It is a very interesting article and I'm sure there are more out there to be found. Here it is if you would like to read it.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/18990507/Learning-Solutions-Motivating-Learnings-to-Learn

Blog 2

I got together with my partner to discuss our approach to our presentation. We're both happy about not having to give it until mid-November, which gives us more than enough time to give a very good presentation. This semester has taken off very quickly and it seems like it's not planning on slowing down at all. I am looking forward to working with the 343 students that we will be mentoring. It was just last semester when I took that class and I wish we worked with students that have already taken it. I think it would have allowed us to get some insight on what to expect from the rest of the program. I'm sure that's what a lot of the mentees questions will consist of. I'm sure they will have questions about the workshops as well, but most of that will be pretty obvious. I'm sure they will appreciate having someone right there to answer their questions instead of having to ask the professor everything.

Blog 1

We have our teams and projects for the class. It seems I'll be giving a workshop on OpenOffice Calc. At the moment I have absolutely no idea what it is myself. So this is going to be a learning experience for both the attendees and myself. By the time it comes around to doing the workshop I'll be a pro at it and they'll never know that this was something that I recently learned too. As always I'm looking forward to a very productive and successful semester. I wish the rest of the class the same!