Week 6 – list of challenging activities

Posted on by Keith Aquilina

Activity task: list of challenging activities

Drawing on your own experience and your study of this course so far, write a list of activities that might be expected of a student on a course that has online and distance components.

  1. communicate/work with colleagues/tutor via
  • email
  • forum
  • blog
  • video conferencing
  • chat
  • wiki
  1. Write TMA through word processor
  2. Interview another person
  3. Research the Internet
  4. Read notes
  5. Use library services

Different types and levels of disability exist thus one designing activities, special care needs to be taken not to discriminate against anyone…

Models of disability

two types: social vs medical disability

quote from course material;

the social model describes disability as …

… all the things that impose restrictions on disabled people; ranging from individual prejudice to institutional discrimination, from inaccessible public buildings to unusable transport systems, from segregated education to excluding work arrangements, and so on.

(Oliver, 1990)

This activity shows the importance to ‘watch your language’.  It is important to be alert so as not to offend anyone when writing (or speaking) about disabled persons. Obviously this is similar when writing about anyone even a his or her might not be so correct. Etiquette right ?

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Published by Keith Aquilina

Currently my professional role is that of Education Officer (Quality Assurance) within the Directorate for Quality & Standards in Education in the Ministry of Education, Malta. After eight years teaching Computing and ICT within a state secondary school, I moved to the Department of eLearning where my role focused on the organisation of national educational events of which the national eLearning awards and conference, Malta Robotics Olympiad and student competitions. In addition to the work within the Department of eLearning, as from 2011 I have taken the role of ICT coordinator within the Directorate for Lifelong Learning where for 5 years, I was involved in the development and organisation of ICT related courses within the directorate’s adult education centres and collaborating entities. In 2012, I completed my Masters studies in Online and Distance Education from the Open University. This blog started off as an online reflective diary for my studies in the Masters in Online and Distance Education with the Open Univeristy. As may be easily deduced, my main interest is in technology, learning and anything in between. Linkedin; mt.linkedin.com/in/keithaquilina/