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=Welcome to Barbara's Course Reflection Page=



=**Weekly Course reflections**=

**@Week 1 Intro** **to Adobe Connect and the Course**
Using new technology is always useful - some things are just the thing to make a task work well after we struggle to use a methods that are a maze of links and pages. Being on line and able to chat and ask questions is great.

**@Week 2 Wikispaces & Social bookmarking **
Such a problem this week with the internet - I was in a small town called Cressy on Thursday with almost no connection and it is great to be home in Smithton and writing this with the faster speed available. Sharing information and commenting on materials is a great benefit.

**@Week 3** **File Collaboration**
The weekend flew by with our annual TALE weekend for leaders, so I haven't had real time to reflect. The use of Google Docs and Dropbox certainly makes sharing easier. I'm not sure it's my preferred method of saving web sites though. I like to add the links to files as a reference when I produce them and that gives me the web address and the file kept together.

**@Week 4** **Images**
I've spent time this week playing with Diigo - adding files, creating lists and a new group. I'm thinking this will be very useful for sharing materials for individual training weekends or sessions. And I've played with some pictures... Next step - I'm going to try Screenr. It's good to have an objective in mind... still tossing around ideas for a topic, though.

**@Week 5 Same time connections & Digital Story Telling Tools **
Anne and I have been very busy this weekend - starting with a skype meeting on Saturday morning to plan our project. We are running a training session together in three weeks on the Asia Pacific module and it will be an ideal time to use these materials. So ... we've both produced a Voki, set up a diigo group (Anne) and a wikispace (Barbara). Next step will be to create a voicethread each. Then ... collect our resources into a format to suit that we can share with participants. I leave for Victoria for work on Wednesday, so the more I can do now the better, while I have access to all my resources here at home. (Phew!!!)

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**@Week 6 Surveys & Polls **
Why not include links to your polls and surveys here and reflect on how you could use polls/surveys in Guiding and personally.

**@Week 7 Personal Project **
The Asia Pacific Project is running smoothly. I hope we have a package that can be linked to this site next week. Meanwhile... I'm putting together an outfitchoose... maybe this? just to be patriotic... Or this?? The background is Harrods - I hear their table spread is excellent.

**@Week 8 Celebrate **
The achievements of this course are many - there are a number of items that have been added to my communication toolbox which will I hope increase the range and number of people accessing information. I will be using wikispaces the most though. And the fun bits were great!