March 24th, Admittedly at this point in time I had not had the chance since our last assignment to properly read over the requirements for Task 2 in our UILG. Stupidly, without reading the task requirements, I panicked after seeing the announcement on the LMS and that my peers had already began signing their names up on the Google Docs spreadsheet created for External students.
I didn't want to miss out! I really wanted to choose art as this is my favourite subject and would like to specialise in this area of study after graduating.
I had to pick one of the following resource types; a book or Ebook, a Journal article, a website, blog or wiki or a video / audio podcast. Great I thought! I have already created a website, I wanted to try something new... I don't really like having to make videos and a journal article I thought sounded boring. I would love to design and create my own childrens Ebook! Only I was soon disappointed then reading what I was actually required to do for this task in my UILG. I wasn't going to be creating a book at all... only research and reference it. Never mind!
After finally clarifying what it was the task was asking me to do I headed straight for Google in search for my resource, only to find after many hours searching endlessly I realised it wasn't actually clear to me what I was looking for... I have started to get very frustrated and have wasted valuable time not knowing what I was looking for. I have been feeling lost, with what was meant to be a straight forward task with supposedly clear instructions.
I sought the advice from both my tutors in hope of shedding some light on my confusion with this task. I was feeling pretty miserable and embarrassed knowing that I was actually making this task far more complicated for myself than it needed to be.
Time to re think and collect my thoughts!
First things first, what is it I am actually searching for? My discussions with my tutors did clear up some of my confusions, however I still was lacking the confidence I needed to pursue with this task.
I am starting to realise how important it is to keep up with the online discussion boards and the need to have regular communication with your peers. Before going any further with this task, I decided to seek others interpretations of this task in order to clarify in my mind what it is I am trying to achieve.
I had to pick one of the following resource types; a book or Ebook, a Journal article, a website, blog or wiki or a video / audio podcast. Great I thought! I have already created a website, I wanted to try something new... I don't really like having to make videos and a journal article I thought sounded boring. I would love to design and create my own childrens Ebook! Only I was soon disappointed then reading what I was actually required to do for this task in my UILG. I wasn't going to be creating a book at all... only research and reference it. Never mind!
After finally clarifying what it was the task was asking me to do I headed straight for Google in search for my resource, only to find after many hours searching endlessly I realised it wasn't actually clear to me what I was looking for... I have started to get very frustrated and have wasted valuable time not knowing what I was looking for. I have been feeling lost, with what was meant to be a straight forward task with supposedly clear instructions.
I sought the advice from both my tutors in hope of shedding some light on my confusion with this task. I was feeling pretty miserable and embarrassed knowing that I was actually making this task far more complicated for myself than it needed to be.
Time to re think and collect my thoughts!
First things first, what is it I am actually searching for? My discussions with my tutors did clear up some of my confusions, however I still was lacking the confidence I needed to pursue with this task.
I am starting to realise how important it is to keep up with the online discussion boards and the need to have regular communication with your peers. Before going any further with this task, I decided to seek others interpretations of this task in order to clarify in my mind what it is I am trying to achieve.
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