Clearly something isn’t working here, and how ironic isn’t that. We’re supposed to be students of ICT & Learning, and we all look like imbecils here, don’t we? I can only speak for myself, and I always feel I have the lousiest excuses for not doing what I should. But all of us? That is kind of ridiculous, right?
Last week I felt a spark of inspiration, some purpose in what I’m doing, but I fear it is too late. But if nothing else I will hopefully be able to give some ideas for improvement for coming classes. Conceited and arrogant? I hope not. Anyhow, last week we agreed upon working on the wiki Jill set up for us. Excellent idea, I thought, and my plan was to edit the page about Laurillard’s text on categorizing media for learning technology. As usual life screws up my plans, and I found out that it was too much work and too little time left.
So, Julian Dibbel’s “Rape in Cyberspace”, that I could do. I thought so, anyway. Full of guilt I felt I at least had to do something. Good girl, you know. Wikipedia was also helpful, and yesterday I edited the page on our wiki. But it’s then I realize that I’m the only one that has done anything at all! Well, until just now, that is – by sorting all pages by date it’s easy to follow the progress on the wiki (or simply check your mail – the PBwiki Changebot will notify of any changes), and an hour ago this page was edited. Couldn’t tell by whom though, but I have a hunch. I’ll have to find out tomorrow, just to satisfy my curiosity….
Sorry about that…I must confess I had every intention to write, but as usual got entangled in the web of everyday life and never got further than writing a line or two I think. In the end I had to take the survival instinct rute and look after number one: me. Oh my, that sounds terrible!!! I am sorry that we failed you karin…. but good luck tomorrow.
Don’t be sorry, no one has failed me! I see now it may have sounded as I was disappointed in the rest of the class, my excuse, but that’s not exactly what I intended. In a way a was relieved to see that I wasn’t the only one not doing anything, on the other hand, it clearly shows that something is wrong. Not with the students primarily, but with the system that we are supposed to understand and work within. I have so many issues and ideas about that, and it would be interesting to discuss them with someone who also got a life besides studying. I’m hoping for a better semester next year, as always…