Playing around with Bubbl.us' free account for concept mapping. This is for my LTEC 676 course on Social and Ethical Issues in Educational Technology. I started in the Online LTEC (OTEC) program with the fabulous Fall '19 cohort. I wish I'd remembered to blog here about it. It was brutal, and more rigorous than many of my Library Science classes, truth be told. Partly because we were doing so many group projects in the first year.
Today, I am here to share this new site that Dr. Hoffman is having us use to create concept maps for our learning. I'm embedding it here. As of today, it is version 01, but I imagine it may change as I update it. It was fun mapping out all that we've learned so far, and I might consider using concept maps as a form of note-taking moving forward. It is a neat way to visualize my notes. Interestingly, most of my classmates have a more starburst format, less linear, and more like an expanding cloud from the center outwards. I am the only person in my class to have a concept map that looks like this so far, and am the only person to have embedded video and article links directly into my concept map, but I have a poor memory, so I need a lot of detail in my notes. Wondering if that will hurt my grade though since it is so different:
I am thrilled to be in LTEC because of all the different software tools we're utilizing, and because my brain loves the adrenaline rush of learning something new & useful. I hope to apply all that I'm learning towards helping others to learn in the future.
Being in 2 grad school classes while working full time (and during a pandemic) has been intense, to say the least, but I am truly enjoying the program. I'm blessed to have the employee tuition waiver that is making this possible. I'm blessed to be able to work during the pandemic. Mahalo, universe! I need to post a pandemic post, soon.
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On Friday, March 17th, I took the final oral exam required for all UH Manoa LIS graduate students who chose not to do the thesis option. We were given a list of questions in advance to choose from, and asked to present based on a particular track/area of study. No notes were allowed, and any citations made (some are required) had to be memorized.
The exam was a good exercise which provided a platform to reflect upon my education over the last 2.5 years and present it to a board of 2 faculty members. In addition to coursework, I drew upon my experiences at various internships, working in the Pacific Collection, and looking for other resources when I needed more info. I took the archives exam, and am happy I passed. |
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