Assignment One Debrief

Description

I prepared an Annotated Bibliography for 'Being an Advanced Internet User'. Each annotation refered back to the module work and the concepts mentioned within the modules. I presented it as a blog. The assignment and reference list were required to be in APA format.
I did this - my blog did not.

Concerns

The fact that my final assignment blog reformatted itself (really an issue when part of the assignment was a reference list in APA format) has seared itself into my memory vapourizing any other concerns. It was just awful to have to let it go as it was after soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much effort (ran out of time. I literally submitted it with minutes to spare) I've never had such a complete and all encompassing disaster in an assignment ever. For god sake, I'm "in-the- 80%-&-over" kind of girl.

So, needless to say, I did not resolve the formatting issue. I have various theories as to why this happened: what I cut/paste from my word doc took formating with it into the blog but I cleared the blog and deleted EVERYTHING and started again. It still reformated.

Obviously, I should have "blogged it" ALOT earlier. I only gave myself two and a bit days to pretty-up the blog. If I had a day or two more, I probably could have overcome my formating drama-rama.

The other issue was submitting via the drop box with coversheet. I miss read the instructions. My brain was clouded with this formating nightmare and I missed the coversheet (ironically I even asked about which cover sheet to use and STILL screwed it up).
I know the lesson here: s l o w d o w n . . . .

Evaluation and Analysis

It was suggested that we collect references early in the unit for this assignment so I just had to collate them and fix my blurb. They were already attached to the module they related to and I had already done a quick blurb. The one issue I had is that it was a bit pre-mature. I spoke to a few other student who felt the same way. Alot of us had not completed all of module 4, even some of three, so I know at least one of my annotated ref's is a bit sus (the html ref). I just hadn't completed the task work (I'm sticking to juggling two units and the great computer meltdown of 07 for my lapse). The task work in Module four would have been very useful to have completed before this assignment.

Conclusion

This is my conclusion for all assignments I have ever done

You Can Never Start Too Early

I always start on my assignment work asap. It's never early enough. There could always be improvements. This was a tricky one because it didn't allow for any lapse in unit work (fair enough really).
My conclusion for the submitting fiasco is, once again

S l o w D o w n & R e a d E v e r y t h i n g P r o p e r l y

Amen

As for the sequence of assignments/unit/task work, the tasks in module four should have come earlier (module three maybe??) although I can see thata certain amount of knowledge needs to be gained before taking on the Tasks in Module Four. I understand the sequence. It just doesn't allow at all for lagging students like me.