First half of smester 1 ... reflection.

Hi everyone,

I know it’s a bit too late, but I’m going to do it anyway. This is a reflection on my first half of the semester in iReflect with our awesome lecturer Darryl [ BIG SMILES =D ].

My first few weeks in the class, was just as I had suspected it to be. Full of confusion and lost minds along with a lot of other expectations about the paper. It wasn’t until we were introduced to the paper we saw that there we were to deal with creating our own websites that will contain our reflections (hence the name – iReflect). I was thinking “YAY! Adobe Fireworks!”- obviously not. We were to create our websites through a website that was (supposed) to help us keep our information (including our assets, past achievements, CV like folders) nice and tidy – called Mahara.

Just as Darryl was explaining to the class how to use the website, my friends and I were getting confused. Even though things made sense the first time round, we still could not get our heads around the instructions. When we needed help for the website, Darryl (who was a first time user of Mahara himself) was also learning about the website. Though there were other students in the class who knew what to do and who has background knowledge of the website, having two people explaining at one time made things more confusing and ending up having to walk out of the room just so I don’t have to open my mouth up to say anything nasty.

Those were the first few weeks. As the weeks went by, We were all getting a hang of things. Answering questions for the first few weeks was fine. Having to add other media into the website made it feel like I was back at square one with the confusion.

Okay, it looks like I got to wrap things up here. But before I do, things started to ease up a little with the help of some class mates who were also trying their hardest to keep on track of things. All in all, I vow never to use Mahara again for anything relating to my academic learning (unless, the paper tells me so I can pass)!

For now...

PEACE!

-annie = D