Sunday, July 13, 2008

Do It Yourself time constraints



This present plan: examining time constraints

I want to take an action for monitoring and evaluate time contraints of publishing online that are additional to offline. this is a sustainability issue, given that a course can be flexible in both directions. Flexiblity can take longer or so it sometimes seems. Or is it in fact that this would be comparing apples and oranges.

Monitoring
I will endeavour to experiment and tweak the way I am approaching the computer to monitor my use.(preferably I ferret some evidence somehow measuring this after the fact so as to not squwif what is at issue already a time constraint ). One idea I have had is I could use use an audio recorder as a log, reflect on a system that i could introduce into the practice of offline online multimedia publication. Changing practices seems to translate to growing it in size and time constraints. This will have to be the one resounding aspect to monitor, although time is what it takes, there has to be a definition of the critical level to judge or measure of output over input across time. This could just become a consciousness raisiing exercise - a filtering of procrastination would be just as effective a self experiment.

Evaluation
A rough break down of the time spent could be useful considering these tools online publication are being treated as mandatory to in some organisations like the Otago Polytechnic while in others ...there is sometimes isolated or no uptake. Asking critical questions and evaluating generating and examining evidence of outcomes about the digital tools needs to become mandatory to foster sustainablity for the long term.


Output is not the be all and end all
some of the critical reflection should weigh up the sustainability of this publication boom
It would be interesting to analyse and evaluate a 3 step framework as series of micro decisions each of which arrise

lost in the mists of time
Whats to say no matter what time it takes a few good quality results become buried in a morass of mediocracy even as they are published.

Revised general plan
I predict, a second action will necessitate I uncover other forms indifferent work habits, that various digital tools that amount to me spending vast tracks of time on input, and derives small results considering these are time consumming practices.






http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/StandardSetting/InternetLiteracy/InternetLiteracyHandbook_en.asp#P121_1703

1 comment:

DawnC said...

With so many things I think we need to beware of chrning out a great deal of digital information which obscures the few hidden gems. Qunatity does not equate with quality and I ahve some concerns about quality in our digital communication field.