IPC assignment 1
Task 1 (Section 2) Developing ICT Skills – Discussion forum post and evaluation.
For task 1, I created a forum post in the online class space and attached a link to a YouTube clip on the topic of procrastination and tips for avoiding it during study.
I broke the post down into small sentences so that it was quick and easy to skim over and caught the reader’s attention. I also chose a video that was short in length, and quick to engage the viewer.
I attached the worksheet that the video called for so that any fellow students who wanted to utilise it alongside the video, did not have to locate it themselves.
The link to the video worked and took other students straight to the source. I asked three short questions; prompting readers to share experiences and ideas in their responses.
I had three responses from fellow students that indicate my post was engaging:
Fellow student response 1:
“I think we all suffer with Procrastination. I recall when I gave up working full-time, that it was going to be a time of being able to do everything that I didn 't have time to do...Well Result... I don 't think I have done one thing I intended to do...In fact when I was working full-time I seemed to achieve more because I had deadlines to meet and a limited time to do things. Today we seem to spend more time on the computer on social sites and maybe that was the time that did things like Craft or hobbies. I find that studying keeps me focussed because we have deadlines and we have a time frame in which we have assessments to hand in. The saying goes: “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” - Charles Dickens”
Fellow student response 2:
“Hi, I myself am not a procrastinator but my 13 and 12 year old boys are. It is nothing for them to leave their homework, assignment tasks and chores until the very last minute. It drives me insane! Thankyou for sharing this video as it has certainly given me
For task 1, I created a forum post in the online class space and attached a link to a YouTube clip on the topic of procrastination and tips for avoiding it during study.
I broke the post down into small sentences so that it was quick and easy to skim over and caught the reader’s attention. I also chose a video that was short in length, and quick to engage the viewer.
I attached the worksheet that the video called for so that any fellow students who wanted to utilise it alongside the video, did not have to locate it themselves.
The link to the video worked and took other students straight to the source. I asked three short questions; prompting readers to share experiences and ideas in their responses.
I had three responses from fellow students that indicate my post was engaging:
Fellow student response 1:
“I think we all suffer with Procrastination. I recall when I gave up working full-time, that it was going to be a time of being able to do everything that I didn 't have time to do...Well Result... I don 't think I have done one thing I intended to do...In fact when I was working full-time I seemed to achieve more because I had deadlines to meet and a limited time to do things. Today we seem to spend more time on the computer on social sites and maybe that was the time that did things like Craft or hobbies. I find that studying keeps me focussed because we have deadlines and we have a time frame in which we have assessments to hand in. The saying goes: “My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” - Charles Dickens”
Fellow student response 2:
“Hi, I myself am not a procrastinator but my 13 and 12 year old boys are. It is nothing for them to leave their homework, assignment tasks and chores until the very last minute. It drives me insane! Thankyou for sharing this video as it has certainly given me
References: Study and learning centre, RMIT. (2007). Learning styles; visual learners. Retrieved from https://www.dlsweb.rmit.edu.au/lsu/content/1_StudySkills/study_tuts/learning%20styles/visual.html