Well I have finally finished the course. I feel that I have learnt so much but also feel these is so much more to go. I'd heard of most of the programmes and used a few of them but had not really had the opportunity to explore them in depth. I enjoyed the hands on approach and also enjoyed the interaction with my fellow participants. I found some programmes more challenging than others. I also feel that some of the programmes perhaps could have had more specific instructions , probably because I'm a little computer literate ...but I learning. I think that I'll have to go back to a few and refresh my memory of them...easy to forget when not actually using them regularly.
My sister-in-law is a teacher co-coordinator and was very impressed with the course and has herself signed up to do the course. She thinks it will be invaluable for teaching the teachers and is looking into organizing to have the teachers do the course. Also my craft group teacher who owns the largest tapestry store in Victoria was very impressed when I showed her the LibraryThing programme, as she has a vast collection of books she wanted to catalogue but did not know how...she will also use this programme to catalogue here collection for her shop...glad I could pass on some useful information.
Many thanks to Fiona for her many helpful hints, and also thanks to my fellow participants for their thoughts and input.
Congratulations on finishing, Jenny! There certainly was a lot there .... more than I had time to look at. But even dipping in to as many tools as we did, in a structured way, was well worth it, wasn't it?
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Margaret
Yes Margaret, I enjoyed doing the course and certainly did learn a lot...time was an issue with me and I also lost my home computer for about a month, what a disaster....I'm hoping to go over some of the programmes again which interested me and which I think would be useful at work. I'm also going to have another play around with some of the fun things, must have another look at my facebook, registered but did not really do much with it....Jenny
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, Jenny! Since I've been a bit slow getting the certificates happening I'm going to send you a certificate of completion. It's great to see your feedback, and that you have been able to investigate some of the things you already knew about. I'm glad to hear that you've encouraged others to do the course - it's definitely valuable for those in the education sector to learn about these tools! Syba Signs deals with enrollments for the education sector so you can tell your sister-in-law to either contact me or them - they typically have around 150-200 participants at the one time so it's great to have a lot of other people to bounce off! Good luck using these tools in the future! Fiona
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