In each of these on-line courses you will not meet your tutor (me) or any of the other course members face to face. You are encouraged to do these on line activities for each of the three courses even if you have done them before because you will be introducing yourself to a new group of colleagues each time.
This introductory activity will be essentially the same for each of the three courses but it will involve an interaction with a different group of people each time.
You may need some help [Popup] in using WebCT [Off site].
You may wish to go straight to the introductory activity.
Go to WebCT and open the course EPED E-PEDAGOGY, then click on the link to Discussion area in the Course Menu on the left of the page.
Open the topic Introduction and read the Introductory message and follow its instructions.
A copy of this message is shown below.
The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to familiarise
yourself with using the Discussion area of WebCT.
Make sure that when you reply to a message or create a new one, for this
introductory activity, that you are in the topic area "e-learning:why
bother:Introduction". It should be seen in the Topic box at the top
of the message area.
Try posting a message and replying to a message to see how it works. I will
give an example of each of these in the topic area.
If you have any problems with the interface, then post a message here so
that we can help you with it.
You might want to introduce yourself saying who you are and why you are doing
the course.