I just thought I'd post this little gem from YouTube. This short film called "Networked Student" illustrates ways of embracing technology in order to find new ways of learning. This was discovered during the course of my OU studies (Beyond Google course).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Open University success
I'm feeling rather pleased with myself at the moment. I've just got my results back from my computer marked assessment (CMA) for the Open University course I'm undertaking at the moment. I was lucky enough to have scored 100%.
Actually truth be told, this is a revised score. The original score was 95% as I'd got a question wrong. However, I raised an issue with the 'question' because there was a sentence missing from it. This made it a little tricky to answer. I guess this was me in Quality Assurance mode again. Anyway, the OU withdrew the question from the exam & rescored the results.
To be honest, I'm really enjoying the course, "Beyond Google" which is all about effective use of internet search strategies and processing of the results. Whilst I consider myself, to be quite computer savvy, certain areas have been quite an eye-opener for me. For example, I didn't appreciate how big the 'deep web' was (the bit you can't get to via search engines). Its reputed to be as much as up to 95% of the whole web. This is, of course, speculative as nobody actually knows how big the web is.
Actually truth be told, this is a revised score. The original score was 95% as I'd got a question wrong. However, I raised an issue with the 'question' because there was a sentence missing from it. This made it a little tricky to answer. I guess this was me in Quality Assurance mode again. Anyway, the OU withdrew the question from the exam & rescored the results.
To be honest, I'm really enjoying the course, "Beyond Google" which is all about effective use of internet search strategies and processing of the results. Whilst I consider myself, to be quite computer savvy, certain areas have been quite an eye-opener for me. For example, I didn't appreciate how big the 'deep web' was (the bit you can't get to via search engines). Its reputed to be as much as up to 95% of the whole web. This is, of course, speculative as nobody actually knows how big the web is.
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