Well here we are in the final week and I have just been going over Lynda's notes from Class and a few things stand out for me at the end of this process.
In Week 1- Lynda talked about Love and Fear.
For me I have to say I definitely started in Fear. I was worried about doing the blog. It was very different from any other form of assessment that I have done in my masters course. I always feel a little bit anxious attempting new things. In particular with the computer technology.
For me the community that Lynda was hoping to achieve given the limited time that we were going to spend together in class, seemed ambitious. I was fortunate that I started the course knowing a few people very well. WE have been supporting each other through our course for a year already at this stage.
Much of the original support I got was from them. But in true Community Development Lynda had activities that ensured that we got to know others within the group.
I had strong on going support from my close community within the group, but found through the discussion board, and following the nine blogs I chose I developed a great community network.
This lead to the love of blogging- I think I have become slightly annoying to all my work colleagues and friends as I yadder yadder on about this technology. I took another huge leap last week and jumped on to twitter as part of my blog.
Having said this and how much I love the blogging I have convinced a few networks I am involved with that we need to go down this path. It is also proving to be a useful tool for clients as a reflective diary (you can lock of the blog so no one else can view it).
Now that I have made the commitment they are patiently waiting for my uni commitments to stop and I will then set them up and manage them for 2 network groups I am involved in for work.
So I am ending love of the technology and of the learning process.
Getting the balance right in between these and the right timing can be difficult. Mostly this balance for me has been the reliance on others. The main people involved in the project, the students had as busy work commitments as I did .
The project timing was difficult for all of us, and we were overly ambitious in our time frame to get the art work shop done prior to the 23rd May- exceptionally Ideal. Our discussion to re launch and get others involved at a later date after the mid year assessment period for the student is far more Real.
Which meant times I had to take the lead when I was hoping to have a bottom up approach happening in order for things to be decided.
I mention a lot about Collective Action in my blog- much of the research I did showed that when young people become involved n community issues are more likely to remain involved in civic and political matters on an on going basis. So it has become a focus of the community project.
Lynda mentioned for us to go and 'Be brave and go out there' and 'Fail gloriously'. I think I did this. I did fail in down loading a video I wanted, I struggled in getting n to Utube, and finding podcasts. But the hard work and failure helped with developing the connection to others in the course for help to get things done.
It has been a long semester but I have learnt a lot and my skills with the computers has progressed in leaps and bounds.
It has been Great.
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