Searching for e-learning courses

Last week, I started searching an online short course for assignment 3. It was hard to search online. I searched a typing course and I registered and sarted doing it. Actuallly I found the course was too easy for me. The course has 27 steps and each step allows you 10 mintues to complete. I can finish each step within 1-3 minutes. So I think this course is designed for the people who never touched keybord and don’t know how to type the word. So I gave up that course and started searching other courses.

Finally I took the advise from Module 3 activity from utsonline. I started to do a short German course from bbc website. Why am I choosing that one? I’m really interested in learning German and last year, I completed the beginner level in USYD for German. So I want to find out what is the difference between an in-class German course and an online German course and the adavantage and disadavantage between these two styles.

2nd Life~~

Two weeks ago, we had a guest who gave us a lecture about second life. I was very comfused at the first, didn’t get it. Besides, I was curious to find out what this programm is actually about.

At the begining, the first impression about this programm to me was like a game. I really had no idea how the learning can be worked by using of this program. After I had a tour on second life with our speaker, I realized that the visual worlds had lots of advantages as a learning tool.

It is hard and expensive to create your world and course or presentations in Second Life. The good thing is we can view and find useful information as a guest. I was really interested in one place in Second Life which was a salon. The creator said that place was created for her hairdressing students. Students can have practices there like in a real life. And also, you can do lots of things which you can’t do it in the real world, such as walking under the sea~!

Victoria said we would use some training course for our assignment 3. I wouldn’t do it because this program is still too new to me and if I chose short learning course there, I had to spend time to get familiar with this program. It does take time to get through all of it.

Anyway, I’m happy to have a tour on Second Life. It is fun and creative. I hope one day we can have our lessons at home by use of Second Life in stead of attending class in the college.