11 Jun 2003 (Wed)
AH SO NE! i have been ‘misplaced’ in the Group Pages. Now i see that i belong more to ‘Industry’ than ‘Tertiary’ (’Academia’). Although our institutions are classified within the tertiary education category, our focus tends to be very industry-oriented.
This is getting clearer and clearer, especially after the video conferencing session that we had with G., S., et al, on one side (in Australia) and with our in-house Instructional Design (ID) program participants on our side (in Singapore) yesterday morning. Read the rest of this entry »
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10 Jun 2003 (Tue)
A CONSOLATION: All was not lost, some ‘work’ did get done while i was at rest. During my four-day retreat in May, the thought ‘God, the Divine Teacher’ kept coming to mind. Even now, this still comes as i re-read Laurillard’s paper Teaching As Mediating Learning which i finished yesterday. As she put it, “…teaching is a rhetorical activity: it is mediated learning, allowing students to acquire knowledge of someone else’s way of experiencing the world.”
Each evening, in accordance with the Ignatian spiritual exercise, my spiritual director (SD) would give me four recommended passages to pray over four hours the next day. The thought came on the third day when my SD was listening very attentively to what i was telling him about my prayer experience — the thoughts and feelings that came to mind while meditating or contemplating over the scripture passages. As usual, he has asked a few strategic questions in the beginning and was about to recommend readings for the next day at the end. Read the rest of this entry »
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9 Jun 2003 (Mon)
NO APRIL’S FOOLS JOKE. Posted the following de-motivating factors for me as a learner on the discussion forum (DF) on 1st April:
“1. Prior Commitment.
I have work-related matters and eh, a week-long holiday to attend to. [Then, it was SARS-related quarrantine for almost 2 weeks. Later, a week for spiritual renewal.]
2. A ‘Push’ Factor. I feel a certain revulsion, or to put more mildly, plain inertia. Just one week away from the DF and “My Goodness! How the messages have multipled!” The thought of having to plough through all these messages (now seen as “readings”, as Iris called them during last wed’s virtual chat) is enough to put me off. In other words, the volume and the textual nature of the discussion makes learning rather unattractive. Read the rest of this entry »
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5 Jun 2003 (Thu)
IT’S WEEK 13 OF “Teaching Online: Strategies and Tactics”. Another five weeks to go before the course ends. Still struggling with Assignment 2 which is due end of last week!
In a twist of fate, yours truly (normally highly motivated and studious) is now behaving like a proverbial unmotivated lazy student in our institution.
First, went on a long-awaited six-day holiday (this is for family bonding) in Hongkong and Bangkok in mid March. Came back in the midst of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) scare. Was confined to work at 56kbps at home (and up to 10 hours per month) instead of 100Mbps at office (unlimited!) for six days in Week 4 (bcos i just returned from a SARS-inffected country) and Week 5 (bcos a student was down with SARS). Read the rest of this entry »
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