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September 16, 2010

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Hans Roes

wrapping up O-week / week 0

All right, looks like I am set to go. A quick review:

 

  • Started using the (ugly) discussion board in WebCT. Of all the web apps in use for this course, WebCT strikes me as the most dull, unappealing, yet is seems to be the core system in use. I'll get over it Smile.
  • Completed the course pre questionnaire on Wednesday, WebCT warned that it would take an hour, when in fact it wasn't even two minutes.
  • Put up a profile in the 'who we are, where we are' wiki page in WebCT. Looks like this module comes from Atlassian's enterprise wiki Confluence (http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/tour/?gclid=CMqOr_f). (Why doesn't the 'insert link' option in this blog software work? Ah, you need to select some text first? Nope, it opens up an insert box but not a field where I can insert, at least using Google Chrome.) Thank God I am a bit familiar with that product, it has a steep learning curve and I had to tinker quite a bit to get everything to look right.
  • Put up a rather spectacular Wink video on the Wallwisher (http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/idel10-1) page, and found out that I couldn't upload video directly to that site so made a detour and created a YouTube account and linked to that. It sure added to the YAA (Yet another account) experience.
  • I had set up a Twitter account earlier but don't like it very much. In order to avoid to go there as much as possible I added RSS feeds for the hash tags #mscel and #mscidel to my Google Reader.
Looks like I'm mostly done. I need to still redirect the UofE mailbox. I wonder when the invoice from UofE will arrive. And I want to take a look at the library services on offer.

 

Keywords: IDEL10

Posted by Hans Roes

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    Hi Hans

     

    It was a spectacular video!  I’m rather jealous – I’m terribly allergic to horses but I do love them.

     

    The multiplication of accounts, particularly in these first few weeks can be a tad overwhelming.  So kudos for keeping at it.

     

    Hopefully during out ‘twittertorial’ in week 3 you’ll get a sense of how Twitter can be used.  It would be good to come back to these feelings and critically examine them in the light of the readings we do that week.

     

    For the invoices – we have to note whether students are ‘in’ class in by around week 2.  After students are confirmed as attending, the finance office processes the invoices.  It can be a slow procedure, so it may be a good few weeks before you see an invoice.  If you are worried, you can contact the Finance Office.  (Info on student finance is in the ‘myStuff’ tab of MyEd).

     

    Cheerio

     

    C.

    Clara O'SheaClara O'Shea on Monday, 20 September 2010, 08:55 BST # |

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