Social Learning

Social Learning can be a really good tool for people that are both introverted and extroverted. It allows both to shine in a way. People who are introverted and don't like to get up in front of class can sit back and listen how they like to in the first place letting them be part of the group and be comfortable at the same time. It also allows extroverts to do what they like, being social butterfly's. They can talk to the class or to groups, learn and help other people in the class. So social learning doesn't have to be necessarily on the internet. It can be in class as well. To be honest everything these days are moving online and I think we need more in person classes. More and more people are becoming social awkward and more that just shy.

Make my own time

I watch a lot of ted talks in fact I had seen the Jane McGonigal ted talk before we ever saw it in class. Its really interesting to see the ideas these speakers have to solve the world biggest problems. Jane McGonigal showed us different activities we could do to increase our life span. My favorite was this woman, she came up with this game that was almost like world of war craft. It brought people together to do missions that are real world problems like ending famine or finding a renewable energy but they were cleverly disguised so the gamer didn't know that they were solving these problems making it more enjoyable. There are tons of ted talks just like these out there and there all just as interesting.

Social Media

There are tons of social media applications emerging lately. A lot of them strictly on the mobile platforms. Its really interesting to see all the different formats they've been making lately. Formats that have been moving away from the traditional facebook / linkedin format. For example there's a new app called tinder that everyone's been talking about. It is a dating social media app that allows you to anonymously like or dislike someone then if the person you liked likes you back it will start a chat between you. This is a fun new format for social media that I haven't seen before and i'm hoping more people are creative and come out with creative formats like this.

Change of Plans

As most projects go as you dive deeper into a project you see what will work and what wont work. We found that the better bet for us to get the 10 hours fulfilled would be by changing our project to focus on Linux terminal. Currently we are exploring the different ways to teach Linux and the benefits to using a Linux operating system over other systems. The system we plan to teach on is Ubuntu and we will go from installing the system to basics uses and then if we have time move into advanced uses of Ubuntu and the Linux terminal.

Learning Module Project: Update 1

So we've gotten the most critical step done in our project, picking our topic. We decided on University of Reddit. It is a free website on Reddit that lets people teach whomever is interested about anything. Its actually pretty interesting to see all the different topics that are available to people. They expand into everything from science to history to music and everything under the rainbow. Its a good way for people to get solid knowledge for free its just to bad that the world only cares about degrees from schools that you pay for. Regardless I think it is going to make a pretty good project.

Learning Module Project

So this week we started a project for the semester. We have to design an online learning module. This is going to be interesting, last semester we had to teach a computer seminar for the first level of the class. Now though changing it to online is going to be a challenge to format it in such a way that it is useful and easy to understand to whomever wants to use our module. I guess we'll see how it turns out in a few months.

Working Together

In class this week the topic has been brainstorming. As individuals and as groups, we worked on the best possible ways to come up with the best ideas. Although not the first time we've done these types of activities it does transfer over to over classes. Many of my other classes this semester are group project oriented and we use these approaches everyday in class. So although an old sometimes forgotten skill it is still a useful one.