You will be not be graded on blog entries only 5% will be given on a contributed/non-contributed basis over the first two weeks of the unit. While ongoing use is not assessable, It is anticipated that participants will continue to use the class blog to share novel ideas, reflect on reading and to share their developing understanding of project-specific topics. Adding your image so that others might have some idea about you is part of this task. 

This is a series of learning assignments. Each participant is required to contribute to the course Google Drive shared folder about the history of the field and also individual writers within it. These contributions sit along side the discussion topics. They include individual interpretation of the learning technologies history, presentation of ideas in different ways such as a concept map of the relationship between technologies and their effective educational use, and represented in a the historical time line, discussion forums and individual contributions. 

You will be assessed on the quality and appropriateness of the majority of your responses online to set tasks. Your grade will be made up of 2 parts - the first for weeks 1-7; the second for weeks 8-13. Please make your contributions within the time allotted. If there are reasons for you to be late with your contributions as occasionally and inevitably happens, it is helpful if you would inform the class to expect a late posting. The weighting is 30% (15% for each half ). 

A learning experience on a topic to be agreed but one that leads others into an understanding of the issues surrounding the use of information and communication technologies in learning. Part of the exercise will be, in small groups (2-3), to create some learning activities and to organise online experiences so that other members of the unit can learn about the important issues in your chosen topic. You might as a group, moderate a discussion or some other interaction appropriate to your topic and encourage participation of the whole class.

Students will need to select and propose topics and also locate group members during discussions in the first two to three weeks. Please see broad topic areas for projects that are listed as ‘Current Issues’ in the weekly topics for Weeks 8-12. The experiential task will be presented to the class for completion during the second half of the semester using an allocated space in Moodle (or iLearn). The small group tasks provide the weekly activities for the unit during Weeks 7 to 12. It is expected that participants will allocate time to completing each activity.

While the online component is a shared group activity you should write up an analysis of the topic as it impacts on your own personal work context. The form of the write up will be a report or review that might be shared with your colleagues about the lessons you personally have learned.  (Refer to the Bonk and Khoo text for possible ideas).