Feedback from Session One - Friday 28th May

Below is the feedback from Session One held on Friday 28th May.

Please leave a comment if you have any corrections, or anything you'd like to clarify or add.

What I liked

- Simplicity of software
- Felt supported
- Demonstrated potential of blogs well
- Good combination of group and individual support
- Creative potential of blogs shown
- Multiple applications for self-publishing tools
- Tutors' attitude - patient, knowledgeable, kind, positive in approach
- Catering was fine

Challenges

- Needed a Light Pro
- Computers setbacks - very frustrating
- Not enough practice time - easy to forget without practice

Bright Ideas

- Use Light Pro
- Check computers thoroughly beforehand
- Step-by-step notes to aid memory after session

Participants in Session One - Friday 28th May

Deborah Wall - Ultimo
Lesley Yasso - Ultimo
Ian MacNeil - Ultimo
Oscar Cortez - Ultimo
Susan Johnston - Ultimo
Patrizia Scelzi - Petersham
Joe Nipperess - Petersham

How would you like to be able to use these tools?

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Show and tell

Leave a comment with links to any journals from LiveJournal that you think would be interesting to use with Youth at Risk.

Try to find some blogs that are being used in interesting ways in education. You can follow the Blogs in Education links on edublogs.info. Post your discoveries here.

Feedback from Session One - Thursday 20th May

Below is the feedback from Session One held on Thursday 20th May.

Please leave a comment if you have any corrections, or anything you'd like to clarify or add.

What I liked

- Felt welcome
- Good overview of session in introduction
- Printed notes
- Nice contrast between online journals and blogs in notes helps understanding of differences between the two
- Good pressure to keep moving
- Liked computer demo system

Challenges

- Underpinning computer skills
- Need more time - a lot covered
- Would like more time to practice with supervision

Bright ideas

- More supervised practice time
- Set up mentoring relationships
- Prior warning of required computer skill level
- Pre-requisite computer skills inventory
- More support with those without pre-requisite skills
- Step-by-step instructions with screen shots in notes
- Include URLs for websites visited in notes
- Table in notes to write usernames and passwords
- Sean's contact details on notes
- Notes about posting (added 04/07/04)

Participants in Session One - Thursday 20th May

Glen Cassidy - Ultimo
Elizabeth Mulrennan - Petersham
Patricia Kenny - Petersham
Diann Payne - Ultimo
Sue Ellyard - Access
Connie Papanikolaou - OTEN
Susan Leslie - St George

Show us your blog!

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Feedback from Session One - Tuesday 18th May

Below is the feedback from Session One held on Tuesday 18th May.

Please leave a comment if you have any corrections, or anything you'd like to clarify or add.

What I liked

- Informative / covered a lot
- Catering in abundance

Challenges

- Too much scrolling
- Moving too fast
- Too much time trying to find relevant examples of journals
- Confused by difficulties encountered picking a username and password when signing up for account

Bright ideas

- Get on to the computer and look at something earlier - less talking
- Find better examples before session
- Set some homework at end of session
- Demonstrate and explain some of the difficulties picking a username and password that will arise during sign-up process

Participants in Session One - Tuesday 18th May

Louise Wadley - Petersham
Shaun Russell - Ultimo
Alison Wood - Ultimo
Michael Locke - Randwick
Peta Smith - Ultimo
Heather Beebe - Ultimo