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The group presentation



The members of my group named ‘The Party of Five’, very quickly decided on a topic for our presentation. We selected, ‘barriers to blended learning’ as our subject matter. Prezi, an on-line program was chosen as the vehicle for our presentation. My group came from different educational and industry backgrounds. Two are 'Technical and Further Education' teachers, the other three including myself are from private 'Registered Training Organizations'. We were lucky enough to have one member who was heavily involved in developing a blended learning program for his employer.

Constructing the presentation had its challenges, distance and block lectures being the most difficult hurdles to overcome. Communicating via the blog and emails was sufficient for our initial planning. We arranged two face-to-face meetings at the University of Technology Sydney library. The group decided to hold these meetings to iron out any problems with the Prezi program and practice our case study discourse. The presentation went well and our barriers to blended learning Prezi was adequate for our case studies. Of course, there is always room for improvement. Some of the other presentations were of an extremely high quality and it was a pleasure to watch them.

The final part of our subject is this digital portfolio presentation and many of the students in the e Leaning subject have chosen other programs like ‘Wet Paint’ for their portfolio. My decision to use Wikispaces for my last assignment was really because of suggestions from my lecturer Ann. I have had very little exposure to some of the digital formats that some of my peers were using. Wikispaces appealed to me because it is an easy online program to manage and contributes positively to my digital portfolio and skill set.