The wimba archive is overwhelming! Although thorough in detail, it's also a wake-up call to "put the pedal to the medal" because this month is crucial! A significant portion of our grade is on our Literature Review in addition to the detailed assignments of this present LMO course. I concur with the sentiments of the student who voiced his concerns about the extensive work load of activities in addition to the final submission of our Lit. Review. It is a bit much. And I also concur with Joe's explaination in his response, that this is an excelerated program and 14 weeks worth of instruction is crammed into 4. Such is the way of Master degree programs... Sounds as though this is what is expected of us regardless. In terms of our Lit Review, Joe advised that at this juncture students are in one of three categories: those who got it right and are done, those who are going back and forth with their submissions, and those who have their heads down as though no one is watching... Well, unfortunately for me I am not in category #1 and I don't believe my attitude is like that of category #3, so I guess I'm in category #2. From the looks of it though, I am a bit stressed out about wanting to be in category #1 and beating the clock at the same time (npi). This is crunch time and I'm praying that my final submission will be successful and acceptable while I'm also praying that I can stay on top of my assignments for LMO. These last couple of months are really going to bring out what we're really made of.
I'm one who believes that giving students all the information or access to all of the information enables them to figure out how they're going to manage the load. Of course that means that I have to be okay with the realization that some folks are just going to freak, at least at first. Hopefully you'll manage, after the freak-out. :-)
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