Top 5 Things I Learned from my Mastectomy

Image courtesy of the National Breast Cancer Foundation

October is breast cancer awareness month. I am not a survivor of breast cancer. I am not a victim of breast cancer. I am a breast cancer conqueror. In honor of this month, my October blogs are sharing lessons I learned from my mastectomy.

If you are a woman who has never had a mammogram, please visit http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/breast-cancer-awareness-month to create your early detection plan. A mammogram saved my life. A mammogram may save yours.

Reflections on the OMDE603 Blog

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BLOG OVERVIEW

I work on eCourse development and moderate virtual learning events in my day job so much of the learning in this course is more of a confirmation of what I already experience every day.  I find the program has helped my vocabulary about Web 2.0 tools to become more precise and exact.

MY LEARNING THROUGH THIS BLOG

As I reflect back on the blog assignment, I took a close look at the posts I created.  All blog posts were from module 1 and 3 readings.  As I was writing them, I was so embroiled with Module 2 conference discussions I think I had a hard time separating out “content” for a blog post.

The majority of the posts were in the category that I call musings while the Society, Conflict and Learning and From Wisconsin to the World: Thank You Charles Wedemeyer! posts were in the book report category.  Using the practical inquiry model described in Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2000), the musings posts were opportunities to explore more about the topic while the book report variety did provide resolution on the topic.  I found the book reports gave me the freedom to delve more deeply into the work of the authors who were referenced in the course readings that I would not have done otherwise.

I feel that I got off to a slow start but once I determined a schedule, I was able to generally meet the timelines of posting on Wednesdays and Sundays.

Now that I have reached the end of the Blog activity, I will miss it!  I have three other blog posts I was contemplating but did not pursue because I ran out of time 🙁

LEARNING OBJECTIVES MODULES 1 – 3

In this section, I briefly explore my understanding of how select learning objectives for modules 1-3 where achieved in course assignments (conferences are the only assignments not included) or in the Google doc I created to summarize my understanding of how web 2.0 tools can be used in DE (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aWVKBXbiG2V6RXzAlOCPj8ij9XWI5Dmhd7M6ALvGPXY):

 Module Objective Related Artifact
1 Describe   the history of media and technology in distance education Will the OU Generation Date Moore & Kearsley’s 5   Generations? Blog
1 Demonstrate   knowledge of the range of terminology and values applied to technology in   distance education The   blog assignment
2 Evaluate   selected asynchronous and synchronous applications Essay   1, Digital Footprints post, and One more Barrier to Mobile Learning   post
3 Specify   the main characteristics of Web 2.0 technologies How   Web 2.0 Tools can be used in DE Google Doc
3 Estimate   the educational possibilities of Web 2.0 application How   Web 2.0 Tools can be used in DE Google Doc
3 Experience   hands-on Web 2.0 technologies The   blog assignment and the wiki exercise

REFERENCES

Garrison, D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (2000).  Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education,2 pp. 87-105. doi:10.1016/S1096-7516(00)00016-6