So today was the first official day of my first ever MOOC (massive open online course). I thought I was ahead of the game because yesterday I found the Fb page and how to access the course, resurrected my Twitter account to Tweet about its upcoming start AND was re tweeted!
Today on course, I read about how NOT to become overwhelmed and to pick and choose what materials and conversations I feel most comfortable interacting with. Awesome. No pressure. I'm liking the way this course is set up for me to gather and glean the knowledge I find most applicable to my teaching and learning style.
And then I started reading Tweets which were referring to how wonderful this video or that article was FROM WEEK TWO !!! So much for "No Pressure!" But then I realized that of the 17,000 people who are taking this course, perhaps some of them didn't have the commitments which I had today. For me, getting my Twitter account set with the same password on my phone AND iPad, watching four videos (which did not portray technology in a very favorable light), and downloading the PDFs for week 1, was a tremendous start for day 1.
Oh, and I started my first blog. (Something this digital immigrant NEVER aspired to do)
Go get 'em tiger!
ReplyDeleteYou too! :)
DeleteHi digital immigrant,
ReplyDeleteReading your blog felt as if I had written it ... I feel exactly the same and didn't even get to the course content. Thanks for making me feel less guilty (OK, here I pretend not having seen your second blogpost)
Lol. I'm just getting past the guilt. With that aside I can give serious thought to the course topic!
DeleteCan you *be* behind in the "massive"? You certainly can't be "ahead". Perhaps you just have to *be* - trapped in the present, and not worrying about what has just passed you by. :-)
ReplyDeleteYes, tonight I am beginning to "get" that. No "required" reading, no after midnight blog post with the clock manually set to the proper day.
DeleteI just floated around and read and posted and found sites which I never knew existed--for almost 5 hours!😴