Tuesday 18th November

9-10am

Met as a group to discuss our IDEA project

*Talked about Goal and purpose of the project
*Talked about the content of the 1st session : Introduction, logins, Tasks (Survey and polls), definition as per Dept of Ed with words to fill in, then watch a provocative video - all this aiming for 20-30 min session (with assumption that students will do most of it outside contact time)
*Each one of us was encouraged to read Gill Salmon's e-tivities book

10am-1pm

In class

* IDEA models -- more was covered with a bit of revision
" Gagne's nine events of instruction model
*Like the debate about E-T OR T-E OR E-T-E
*Active learning -- write down 3 things that you have learnt so far today?
*Fact rounding
*Six thinking hat -- Edward de Bono
*VLEs -- active learning theory and Claire's research work

From Padraig, see below

1 - The draft annotated bibliography is due next week - our group has agreed to send our drafts to each other in advance to provide support on what we are doing and to help each other out.
2 - Alan gave a great tip last week on using IFTTT.com to send weekly reminders to reflect, I have registered and changed the "recipe" he created and have found it a brilliant and easy way to build a body of thoughts which can be used in the final portfolio - I highly recommend you try it.
3 - From talking to others in the class not everyone is aware of when new information goes up on Blackboard. Alan (again) told me that he has the Blackboard app installed on his phone so he gets notifications when new resources are added.