EduTech Boot camp

My image of a boot camp is that it is linked to doing sports to the bitter end. Obviously, I was curious to what an educational technology boot camp could be. Exhausting my poor brain? Let me tell you: it is learning about what technical applications/tools there are that could be used in teaching and learning! The boot equals a snap shot about many many applications.

It is fun to attend a real course when most of the studying is done virtually. Doing different tasks in groups, learning to use apps together, learning to know each other better, being students observing our teachers ways to teach (yapp – we do that) just to name a few. Doing & learning together is the melody and that's what we did for two days.

 I hoped to have learnt more about using the applications – but that’s my homework.  Prezi, popplet and we video are some tools that I will dig into asap.  The homework will have to wait a bit though; there are other things to be done first.

The other thing is hands-on. Good news is that the course gave me ideas on how to proceed.  We have some digital material to edit with my teammate. I have never done it before, so there’s a Bit to learn. My head if full of words to describe my feelings about editing: challenge, anxiety, technical knot, fury, master, pride and prize. Yapp – I use such cheesy techniques as bribing when it comes to my own studies. 

Any suggestions how we should bribe ourselves?