Once again Louise and I met at the Technology Learning Centre to join the planned teleconference. Again, we arrived there very early and it was a great opportunity to discuss our final report. The centre was very quiet.  We also discussed other MIT issues including BN students’ academic concerns. Louise had set up the required tools for the conference and was already in the room, alone, all by herself. Later, Kevin entered the room (of course virtually). Kevin had problems with his mic and could not respond verbally; well, I mean we could not hear him. He stated that people did not like his accent anyway. I told him that my accent was very bad and his accent must be very beautiful. He was being very nice and stated that my accent was great. Isn’t he lovely? Well, I told him that I knew that my accent was horrible. Louise asked him how he was doing regarding his final report. He said that he was doing ok. Well he did not say that exactly. As a matter of fact it sounded that he was pretty much like us. He stated that he’s had some issues. I believe that Kevin is a very lovely person. I have known him virtually since last semester.  Louise and I have a multiplicity of issues. Luckily we have been able to manage and resolve certain issues. Doing this course has brought a number of advantages. In addition to the knowledge we gain, we have been introduced to many wonderful people. Jon, Katie, Misha, Liz, Rachel, Veronique and the rest are all wonderful people. May be one day we should meet up.

Katie later joined the session. Katie greeted us by saying how are you trouble makers…J

I was recording down events and thoughts synchronously. I was doing this because I was going to be very busy and I might not have time to include my thoughts and reflections in my blog later.

Kevin said that he had a bottle of wine and he was drinking already. Louise and I were at work and of course we were not allowed to consume alcohol while on campus. I am not much into alcohol anyway. Liz later joined the session. Misha and Jon joined soon after. Kevin said he felt sorry for Jon as he was waiting for data from him. Kevin said that he had a dyslexic keyboard. Rachel and Bronwyn joined later.

Bronwyn asked us how we were doing and started to record and archive the session. Well, I don’t think I need to reflect on this as everything is gonna be recorded, but never mind, it is OK am allowed to do so.

Louise said that she had already started writing her report and said that she was wondering if it was ok to copy and paste certain aspects of her plan into the final report. Bronwyn said it was ok and we were allowed to do so. Bronwyn later displayed the “proposed indices and headings” of what we should be following. She was displaying them as the session was progressing. Misha later expressed what she was doing and Bronwyn praised her for what she was doing. Misha is a very lovely person. I have met her in person several times at MIT. She is highly educated and a great woman. I respect her a lot.

Katie had a go too.


While Bronwyn was reflecting and commenting, she sounded very serious. When I met her in person last Tuesday at MIT, she seemed very gentle and very humble.  As a matter fact, she was very friendly and lovely.  

Liz later had a turn too. She asked Bronwyn a question.

Well, I really don’t need to record these things, ok ok I am going to focus on the discussion. And people can retrieve the archive at : 1.2 Web conference archive in the References section on the wiki (posted by Bronwyn Hegarty to Evaluation of eLearning for Effective Practice).



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