End of Week 1

Week 1 "formally" ended on friday but I'd thought I'd wait until now before commenting.

Well, I suppose it was a rather typical "first week" on these sorts of courses eespecially where you have some students who are familiar, and others who are not, with the OU in general and MAODE courses/tools in particular.

I think it will be interesting and refreshing to "meet" new colleagues as well as keep in touch with those I know from H808. On that subject, I'm very glad that I did H808 first as very early on we're using blogs and wikis (week 2 in fact); if I hadn't then I think I'd be struggling a touch.

In our tutor group (Lesley's) - and Week 1 Quiz sub-group C in particular - we have quite a few students who are finding their feet. It was therefore not surprising that it was a bit of a struggle complete the first "icebreaker" group activity answering the questions shown in my previous post.

There were many possible answers and across the whole course every question was answered one way or another. If I get the time I may copy and past some of those other answers into the wiki set up for our sub-group (http://learn.open.ac.uk/mod/ouwiki/view.php?id=195480&page=Week+1+Group+C+Quiz+Answers )