No Aims, No Pains?

This is my second attempt to articulate my objectives for the coming EDCMOOC. The first one was made HERE. Now I'd like to do it with help of Powtoon. It's another program that offers lots of options for creating teaching and learning artifacts. It's pretty easy and fun to use. Unfortunately, your FREE creation is limited to 45 seconds:( Then I've decided that it can be even seen as an advantage: one should concentrate on the main idea and the ways to express it vividly so that the viewers won't be bored:) I'm not sure that I've succeeded, but that's just a try. It took me about 15 minutes - in case you're interested in time investment.

WHY? is the core question of any activity.

If you see your objectives clearly before you start doing something, you're more likely to succeed. This might seem to be so obvious that it's needless to be mentioned. Yet, I'd like to clarify my goals of signing up to the course. If I create a checklist at the beginning, it'll be easier to see what has been achieved at the end (I still hope to finish the course).
I've decided to organise my aims and divide them into three groups:



Educational (general)
Educational (professional)
Personal

Of course, when I was signing up to the course, I wasn't thinking about such classification of my objectives. But it doesn't mean that my enrollment was a whim. Actually, my desire to learn something new has always urged me to search for various sources of information to satisfy my personal and professional aspirations. When in August, 2012  I found the course E-learning and Digital Cultures offered by the University of Edinburgh, I immediately understood that this is exactly what I wanted. I'm going to devote a separate post to each group of my goals.