@philip_downey I definitely need others, found weeks 1-3 on #mscedc hard coz of the lack of interaction. I cement my learning by discussion.
— Eli's inane rambling (@Eli_App_D) February 10, 2017
Weeks 1 – 3 had been a huge change for me in comparison to IDEL with a lot more self-driven study and a lot less social engagement or collaboration. I found this difficult to manage at first, unsure how to go about taking learning out of a “book” and concreting it.
The turn around came in week 3 at our google hangouts tutorial which wasn’t exactly the most chatty tutorial I’ve ever participated in but afterwards there just seemed to be more in the way of communication.
This was also when I decided to stop trying to have “conversations” on twitter and to try to engage my classmates more outside of that platform.