Explorations of educational technology: H809-19. Days of stress come to a sudden halt

Thursday, April 16, 2009

I have had a rotten, throbbing headache for the past three days. Every time I thought about the assignment, it got worse.

What a relief then to read the clarification of the assignment posted by our course chair...

Now I can focus on writing a good paper rather than a stretched-thin, superficial and unconvincing one.

I might even get to enjoy next week's Turkish holiday and extended weekend.

WAY-HEY!!!

I appreciate your feedback!

Hot vocab

affordances: the perceived and actual properties of a thing, primarily those functional properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used.
chasm theory: the sometimes unbridgeable gap between early adopters and early majority users that may cause an innovation to fall by the wayside (Geoffrey Moore)
just-in-time learning: used to describe the benefit of e-learning's accessibility.
learning objects: digital or web-based resources that can be used and re-used to support learning.
social loafing: the phenomenon of people making less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.
technicism: an overreliance on or overconfidence in technology as a benefactor of society.

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