Thanks For The Insight! Assessed Activity 8.2

So What Do I Know?

Hello everyone. Firstly i would like to thank every single person who has taken the time to read at least one of my blog posts. I am saying this because this will be the last blog post for the digital learning technologies era of my blogging hobby.

All these posts have been for my digital learning technologies class. Another paper toward to my degree in I.T. The teacher has asked me to reflect on all the activities i have been blogging about, with the things i have learnt and what i liked or didn't like so much.

Happiness In A Qualification:

Firstly i have gained a vast amount of knowledge from this subject. One of my more memorable skills i have enjoyed acquiring is the power of the personal learning network. This has helped me tremendously. I have also learnt much about online audiences via a PLN. Because of my blog and other social media attachments i can build my audience around my interests and start to construct an audience who all have similar goals and learning styles.

Things Done Better:

 Things that i feel could be generally improved in this course i feel are the sign ups to pages that only have one use. We would sign up to a page for an assessed activity but that was it. I also feel like sometimes one can almost have too much material like social media pages or blogging.  Everything in moderation i think. Apart from that i enjoyed the course. I really enjoy blogging.


Personal Notes:

For everyone that would like to stay in touch with my blog. I will be creating a fresh blog for the same class on an assignment. This blog is centered around KSP (Kerbal Space Program about tips, pointers and help in getting past the massive learning curve that is the game. Even after the assignment for this class i will continue to post, about my personal experiences with the game and the huge amounts i have learnt about space and rocket science! To the Mun!

I Want To Develop Games! Assessed Activity 8.1

Those Helpful Links:

• http://www.gameinstitute.com
• Game Institute is an online training course where individuals can pay a $3,000 fee to complete a fully qualified, fully trained course to become a game developer. Many have been given jobs with major game companies, making some dreams a reality. I have chosen this site because the topic i have chosen is a learning based game, and i also have a deep passion for game development.

Mangyhyper (talk) 07:23, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

http://wikieducator.org/VirtualMV/Digital_Learning_Technologies/Online_Courseware_Examples#Open_Education_Resources

Creating Websites! Assessed Activity 6.1

An E Portfolio:

An E Portfolio is a collection of a users evidence which can include and not limited to; hyperlinks, images, electronic files and blog posts.

How is an E portfolio helpful to digital learning technologies? It is extremely helpful for a multitude of reasons. Firstly it can be extremely useful for the uses of PLN. An E portfolio can be shown to an audience which may grab their attention. So an E portfolio is useful as a learning tool to say the least.

Linked in links and stuff:

https://sites.google.com/site/mangyhyperksp/classroom-news/mycv (CV for GoogleSites)


https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=415921662&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile (Linkedin Profie UNSURE IF CORRECT!?)

Personal Learning Networks Assessed Activity 5.1.1 - 5.1.4

In this post i will be discussing my very own personal learning network, how i will be dealing with the overflow of information and am i actually using my PLN efficiently.


Information Overload:

With learning as a whole, one must know how to go about learning their selected information without getting bogged down by a massive amount of irrelevant nonsense. This could prove difficult in cases where an individual may be on Google scholar researching a topic, where this person finds an article on their topic, but in reality that author is writing about about something that might be related to the topic as a whole but discussing a very different aspect of said topic. This has happened to more times than someone would think.

The above problem can usually be found in two varieties; Online and in your local library.


Staying On Top:

Sometimes we all just want to find the information we need and get out of there. Quickly and efficiently. There are places on the internet (many social media sites) which house thousands or more communities for individuals to join a group with a common interest.. These interests can be from gaming to agriculture. The beauty of it is, is that a member of the online community can ask a question about that topic as a whole and more often than not, get the correct answer from another individual.

Hiding For All To See:

Now the next question is, what do i do with my PLN? Who do i talk to? Where do i show what i have learned?

I believe this answer is very simplistic. So simplistic it can be said in two words. Social Media. As discussed above social media can evolve very quickly with huge numbers. A great personal example i have to show is on one of my posts in this DLT blog. In my post "Learning With Games" i included a very much game based learning game. When i went to publish this post, i included the community that this game is related to. This community has over 50,000 members and therefore many individuals of the community have seen my post. Few have +1'd my post via my Google+  and therefore my views for that post have skyrocketed. Communities like these offer sound advice from the group which can help create or expand a personal learning network.


Finding time:

Finding time to effectively and efficiently use your PLN can be hard. I believe it also depends on how big your PLN is. There are both pros and cons to large PLN communities. Pros are that nearly all of the questions that are asked are more than likely to be answered correctly for that specific individual. A common con is that the information might not be 100% reliable. (Not always the case)

I believe a 'tight knit' PLN with small numbers of members that are committed to the learning would be more effective than a large group. (My personal opinion)

Below is a diagram of my PLN and how i effectively learn while engaging the community. :) Notice that a large portion of my PLN is social media. This is because of the communities social media has the ability to provide. Google+ keeps you in touch, Twitter is great for gaining followers that have the same interests. Blogger for writing about all your learnings and findings for the world to see and the rest is just general learning if you know how to use it.

Use it! Don't abuse it!