Facilitating Online/Assignments

There are three assignments which are built around maintaining a personal blog and facilitating an online event. These collectively cover all learning outcomes.

Personal blog
Set up or use an existing blog. This blog will represent your online presence, be a key communication tool, demonstrate your learning as evidence for assessment and be a place where you will receive formative feedback.
 * Help in getting started with blogs
 * How to write a blog post

What you write in your blog posts is totally down to you, but we recommend you keep your posts short and sweet, containing a concise account of your learning, and connecting with your readers by using your own voice and take on things.
 * Write blog posts with impressions and reflections of what you have learned during the course.
 * Post progress reports on how you are doing with the planning, facilitating and evaluating of your online event (see Assignment 2).
 * Share resources that you think may be of interest to other course participants.
 * Comment on other people's blogs.

To keep up with the contributions of other participants, you may wish to set up an (RSS) news reader and subscribe to their blogs. This will save you a lot of time by not having to go to each blog. News readers are a very efficient and simple way to establish a connection with others in the course, and to stay up to date with what they are doing.


 * Help in getting started with an RSS news reader

Assignments
There are three assignments which are built around maintaining a personal blog and facilitating an online event. These collectively cover all learning outcomes.

Marks
Marks are not allocated to each assignment, only a 'pass' or 'not passed'. You must successfully complete all assignments to be awarded a pass in the course. One re-submission per assignment is possible if a pass is not obtained the first time. (Note: feedback given on draft copies of assignments does not affect the re-submission regulations.)

Extensions
Please note that you must request an extension before the due dates.

Assessment services

 * As an informal learner doing this course for your own learning, you are very welcome to take part in the mini conference and complete any or all of the assignments. However, you will not receive any specific support or feedback from the course facilitator.
 * If you have paid a fee to become a facilitated student, you will receive personalised support to complete the assignments as well as feedback from the course facilitator. You will receive a certificate of participation once you have completed the course. However, you will not receive accreditation for the course.
 * If you are a formally enrolled student you will to receive personalised support and full feedback and assessment services. You will receive course accreditation once you have successfully passed all assignments.

For more information about enrolling as a facilitated or formal student please contact our administrator Catherine Lindsay [mailto:catherine.Lindsay@op.ac.nz Email].