Reflections --> day 10

Last night we've done the movies and it was very funny but also productive because the result is nice, we like it and we hope that the others will like it too...
The puppet show idea of Nikolay was great; we've used even the scene built for another ISUM course so the movies really look like a puppet show.
Today is the last day before our final presentation of the project and we continued the work.
I've done some minor modification on my page, the blogs page, and I've tried to put some comments on the other pages too. Working as a team is really nice; I will do it even better since now on my future projects.
I hope everybody will like our work :)
Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

ps: I've made another blog with pictures I took here in Ohrid:

http://mihaelatelerpictures.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!

Reflections --> day 9

Hello!
Today our teacher said that he's done his job with us, so it's our turn to work and show what have we learned here.
I worked the entire day on our's team wiki: http://bulmakrom.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
I think it looks kind of nice and we still have tomorrow to work on it. We must do a video and Nikolay suggested that we could do a puppet show which is funny and interesting too because I’ve never did such thing before.. I’m curious how it will look like in the end :)
I don’t have much to say today except that even if I really like to work here I’m eager to go to the beach now and then buy some souvenirs.. because our days here are going to end soon :(((((
Ciao! Have fun!

Reflections --> day 8

On today's course we've watched two videos about how technological inovation will change the way we see education and teaching and the message was so clear and almost scary that we, techers, should make much more use of the Internet and web 2.0 tools in particular in out teaching.. I will think more about it and it should definetely change the way I saw education before..
Today the part where we listen and the professor teaches us great stuff ended sooner because now it is supposed that we already have the skills to work on the project on our own so we should go to work now..

Reflections --> day 7

Today we learned what "Negociated Meaning" is and we found out how to work much better in teams.
Negociated Meaning is all about collaboration and cooperation and for doing this really efficiently you should follow these easy steps: DEAPR !!
"D" is for Design, meaning how the project will look like so for this we should brainstorm some ideas together.
"E" is for Encode (to put our information into text, images, videos or other symbols so the readers could then decode out information and get out point).
"A" is for Assemble. This is the part when all the members of the team should put together their work so it will look as a whole.
"P" is for Publish, so this is the part where we share our work with the big public. After this there will probably be a part where we receive feedback from our public and if the feedback contains sugestions of improving our work or it is a negative feedback, then we definitely need to go to part "R".. because "R" is for Revise, Repair, Redo or stuff like this..
So today was the best day in class!! Not that the other days were bad but definitely today was very very funny but very very instructive as well.
We should all remember the way our teacher makes us learn in such a manner that we never get bored and like it so much!
Ciao!!!!

some info about ohrid

Today while opening my gmail account I found out this: http://macedoniadaily.blogspot.com/
Maby you find it useful because it is a blog about cultural events in Macedonia and today in particular there is an article about Ohrid. I put this here to show you what Google Alerts can do for you :)

Reflections --> day 6

hello!
I had a great weekend but unortunately I cannot say that now I am fresh and full of energy because it was not just nice but also exhausting but I will do my best in keeping you informed with what i've learned today..

We started to work more and more with wikis. We've learned how to create a wikipedia page, how to format it and put information on it. Of course after this we put it into practice... My team's page was not so much and we even received a message from the english wikipedia team telling us that the information we put is not meaningfull :))) We switched to macedonian wikipedia and there it seams that they really let anyone put anything on wikipedia... But I've learned something by doing this: english wikipedia.. you can really trust it.. there is somebody there for sure watching so you cannot put there any pointless information and this is very good :)

Now we have to work on a project on pbwiki so maby tomorrow I will write more of my experience with wikis.
Good luck with your project!

Reflections --> day 5

Today was nice too, but we all feel a little tired.. ok maby too tired because weekend is near and we have other things on our mind.. but still let's see what I've learned today:

I knew before about wikipedia but I've never created my own wiki so this was useful too.
It's cool how you can share online documents with your collaborators. I've read once about collaborative tools used in companies for the employes to better communicate and wikis are a powerful tol among all these collaborative tools. It is great that now I'm more familiar with this.

RSS.. I knew about this too but still, like with google yesterday.. I know is there, I know is useful and anyway sometimes I think I can do this my way, the way I'm already used too and this is of course bad. RSS is something built to help us and in the future I will customise more my netvibes and I will use it daily. It will help me be more organised and I will spend less time in the process of finding the information I need.

What else today..?
Hmm.. I will surely remember it when I'll need it to do something practical as we all get used to do here..

Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday!