Reflection of Day 4 of the E Pedagogy Course

We are at the half of the course now - the wheather seems very fine today, so a challenge for this day! I am looking forward to a new day with a lot of experiences! I get more and more familiar with the group, the University, Bergen... I feel almost at home.

As a start of this day Elke, Vivienne and David presented their reflections. The most important outcome: to less practical information (yesterday), most of us are learning by doing, but we are not doing as much as would be necessary. Anne Karin picked this up really well and arranged more practical time this day and also more practical information for those who are not so familair and fast with all those virtual things (like me........)
The main aim of reflections is that we can improve ourselves (als students) and are also helpful to others (as teacher to teacher)
I myself reflected in my blog of the day before, what I learned myself from the MSN chat about the feedback I gave. That was missing in the presented blogs this morning. The presented blogs were more describing and about feelings, but I think it's important to use it more as a learning tool. Because this was a reflection after a reflection, I didn't mention it in the group, but it shoudl have been a good discussion point.
Next we entered the Vitero conference with first of all a lot of visual information about how this program works, then some excerceses - very educational and very well done by the German moderator. I got a lot of energy about it - it keeps my attention and I was very concentrated. A very good tool for conversation especially with international contacts I think... I hope we can use it together after the Course
I think everybody liked the Vitero conference possibilities, I could feel the energy in the group.
The excercies with Google doc etc. were also interesting - a new world was opening for me, but sometimes I felt lost - how to come to this page or how to link this to my blog.... Stay calm!
And with some help (thanx Jon!) I managed. So my feelings about my ' virtual competences' are growing better, but there is still a lot to learn. But I like it!

This day gave me a lot of new experiences and time flies, a more balanced day for me than the days before. I feel that I got more and more tools to create the course and to be a good e-teacher.