Next week's Elluminate Study Skills preparation

Hi all

1. Next week is our first Elluminate session for the Study Skills course.
If you are nervous about getting into the meeting - use David's Wikipedia suggestion for notes about Elluminate -
or alternatively Google search for a live tutorial of how to use Elluminate. There are a number of Youtube ones as well..
Also make sure that you give yourself 10 minutes prior to set up to try it and sort out any internet issues.
Done panic if you dont know - or cant get on becuase we will record the session and in your own time you can get back into Elluminate and click recordings to find it.

2. By now you will have had at least a couple of practices of the Blog.. this is an assessed item so please make sure you get going.

On Tuesday I am going to take us though the Study Skills Assessment Schedule and focus on Time management. Go to the course page and have a look at section highlighted - its a wiki educator page.

and if we have time...
APA referencing.... joy!

See you all.
FM

Intro to online learning

Here’s a list of tasks for Friday & the week ahead to get you familiar with online learning. Some of you are bound to find it a little difficult getting your head around RSS feeds & blogging, but hang in there. It gets easier.

Task 1 – Setting up your browser

Set up your browser homepages. This video will show you how to set up your browser homepage to include

• Google reader
• Your blog dashboard
• Course timetable - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dg6fsk9v_101ghk7r8cr
  
• Programme page - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgk7h5t6_0v7tdc4hb
  

Task 2 – Subscribe to your classmates blogs

If you haven't already, subscribe to your classmates blogs and set them up within a folder in Google reader.

Task 3 – Read & comment on your classmates blogs

If you can relate to something that your classmates have posted in their introductory blog posts, scroll down to the bottom of the post, and click on comment. Then make a comment. :-)

Task 4 - Get familiar with the programme page

Have a good look at the programme page for the part-time Certificate (should by now be one of the pages in your browser if you've followed the steps above). Notice that there are some active links (blue) and some non-active links. Familiarise yourself with the types of information that are accessible through this page.

The Learning support page is particularly useful for you at this stage of study. It's designed to help you identify where to go if you need to get support for academic or computer-related difficulties.

Task 5 - Get familiar with the student portal

Have a look around the student portal. Remember to add it to your favourites (Internet Explorer), or bookmark it (Mozilla Firefox) so that if you need to get here again, it'll be saved for you.


Task 6 - OP IT Induction

Early next week we will give you some information on how you can continue progressing through the OP IT Induction course. Over the next week I suggest that you put some time into this.


Task 7 - Getting prepared for elluminate

We do not have any elluminate sessions this week, however please make it a priority to prepare yourself for getting started in elluminate next week by working through the learning module - Your first elluminate session.

Once you've done this, please try to log into the massage common room (you can find it on the programme page). If you have any connection problems remember that you can ring the OP student services desk on 0800 Poly IT (0800 765 948).


Phew! That was a long post.

Remember that you can get in touch with Felicity or I anytime that you have a question through email or on the phone.

First year part-time blogs

Hi all,

Please subscribe to all of these blogs using Google reader.
You'll need to do it one at a time.
Copy the blog address, then click add subscription in reader, and paste in the address.

http://shannons1stblog.blogspot.com/
http://beckyleith.blogspot.com/
http://blanchesturgess.blogspot.com/
http://hannah-mt.blogspot.com/
http://04russje.blogspot.com/
http://bradloney.blogspot.com/
http://jordanmassage.blogspot.com/
http://erna-relaxology.blogspot.com/
http://mai-stress-mnt.blogspot.com/
http://nise-wwwstress-mnt.blogspot.com/
http://ashassimplemassage.blogspot.com/
fmbodyworks.blogspot.com
somaticreflections.wordpress.com

Welcome to Study skills

This is the course blog for the Study skill (part-time) course (Level: 4, Credits: 10)

Aims

This course aims to equip students with the basic computer and literacy skills which they will need to be effective as a learner. Students will be provided with the opportunity to develop computer skills, effective organisational and time management skills, learning strategies, strategies for locating and interpreting information, and referencing using APA.

Learning Outcomes

At the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use key computer applications effectively (Microsoft Windows, Blackboard, email groups, adobe reader, Internet browser, Microsoft word)
2. Apply effective strategies in organisation and time management
3. Understand their personal learning style and how this relates to their learning process.
4. Consider the approaches most efficient in learning new information and apply this to assessments.
5. Use both local and distance library services effectively
6. Apply APA referencing

Content

• Computer skills
• Online orientation.
• Organisation and time management
• Analyse and critique own learning style
• Learning strategies
• Information Literacy
• APA referencing.

Attendance Requirements

Students will be expected to engage with online discussions and activities and in some instances, participation may be required.

Completion requirements

Students must achieve competency in all assessment tasks assigned to them for completion of this course. Students attendance and participation must also comply with the attendance requirements of the course.

Student Reading List

Required Reading Resources:

• There are no required reading resources for this course.

Recommended Reading Resources:

• The course coordinator may recommend additional reading resources.