Blogs

This may come under format or it may be a question of assessment but I am going to attempt, through this course, to use the moodle forum function as a course blog. I have throughout the course encouraged students to upload specific information as well as general comments to the course blog. As it stands at the moment each skills section has a blog dedicated to it so as to limit confusion. It remains to be seen how well this will work in practice. In my head it is a great way of incorporating peer assessment and student communication in an on-line environment but I may just be being overly idealistic in my approach to virtual learning. The proof I suppose will be in the pudding. Fingers crossed that students share my ideals and we will have an ongoing, interactive course blog full of useful information, without the need for rose tinted spectacles.