SIGNPOST FOR ANNE TO ASSESSMENT TASK

Main challenges with this task:

• not getting dragged into spending hours in the community

• trying to keep the technical details to a minimum

• again trying to reduce what I had written to the word limit!

Although I entered this community for this assignment, it is a community that I will stay a part of as it has been pretty useful.

• Deciding from the mass of resources available on this topic which I would reference in this assignment.
• The actual referencing, I loathe it as the best of times as it is so fiddly but even more complicated when web resources are involved.
• Reducing the assignment from the huge amount I originally wrote to the more concise 750 word limit. I was ruthless in cutting it down to the limit.
• Forcing myself to stop playing, stop improving and just post the damn thing. Because I knew I really had till Saturday morning, I could have kept changing a word here or there, tweaking, improving so it took lots of willpower to just stop!

Another thing I found interesting:

I have never had a task where your work is posted publicly available for all to view. I was wondering, despite the fact that we are mature-aged students, if there would be any ‘borrowing’ or ‘adapting’ of other people’s work. But when I had a look at a few blogs, it was interesting to see how completely different all the postings were – they are so totally individual there is no way anyone would even consider using anyone else’s materials (although I saw a few interesting references I’d like to read up myself).

Although I was annoyed : ) to see Deborah had a voki in her post (although I haven’t clicked on it to see what it says yet) as I had just done one thinking what a clever original idea to lead Anne to my assignment but when I saw Deb had clearly posted hers prior to mine I went back and changed it to the above signpost image instead.