Nativity

In today's lesson we were to create the story of the birth of Jesus in our own individual ways. We were firstly put into pairs and then chose what area of study we were going to do. The list consisted of things like, text messes age, a rap, sports commentary, animation, and many more. Firstly, we chose to do an animation about the nativity, however we found this quite difficult so Mandy introduced us to something called voki. We were very interested in this so decided to use this for our piece of work. We came up with the idea of telling the nativity story in the future from Mary's point of view which worked out well.
Once everybody had finished their work, each group had to present their work on the interactive white board to the class to show how different learning techniques are put into place.

Placement week

Placement week took place starting on the 5th of Decemeber and finishing on the 10th of Decemebr. I carried out my placement in Hirwaun Primary school and was in a year one classroom.
We were given 3 tasks to carry out throughout our placement and they where to keep a log, observation and task 3 was to chose 2 pupils and see how well or not so well they coped with a particular task. After placement I created a folder showing all the evidence and experiences i gained from the placement.
I really enjoyed this week and found myself not wanting leave and realised this is definitely the career path I want to take

Guess the animation?

Today we started the lesson with reviewing and presenting our wiki page that we made the previous week. In our group we presented our wiki page by discussing with the class what each topic was about.
Following on from this, we then created our own accounts on a website callled delicious.com in order to save websites we often use.
As an ending to the lesson we used a programe called 2simple2animate where we created our very own animation. We then shared our ideas as a class and had to guess what each animation was.

Creating a Wiki

Creating a wkiki page was just one of the many tasks we had to carry out over research week. We were put into groups of four and given a subject title, our subject title was "education of today". Within the subject title, there were six sub-titles in which we had to research individually. I researched about what children learn? After gathering all the information we found together, a folder was made by one group member, and then each one of us had to contribute to this folder by putting our information that we found into this folder. I bullet-pointed what children learn throughout their schooling and added a few pictures to make the page look more attractive.

Research Week

For research week, we were given a number of tasks by our lectures to be done by the time we come back. We were given a sample assignment tittle by Sian which we had to treat as a real assignment, in order for us to practice and to get the feel of writing a proper assignment. We also got given our assignment tittle by Andy which is what is education? He advised us to make a start on this as its due in December 2nd which is not to long away.
Ive also been thinking about what to do for my I.C.T and contexts of thinking and learning projects throughout the week, so ive been jotting a few ideas down.
Overall so far its been a busy week ...Hope your all enjoying your time off!

Hope you all enjoyed bonfire night!!

Reflection Bubble

In my previous I.C.T lesson we created a breif spider diagram or "bubble" in small groups and later as a class, that included our thoughts and ideas on what we thought reflective learning was about? We used a program called bubbl.us where we were able to create our spider diagrams. I found this website very useful and easy to use. I would most definetly use it again in the future and would also recommend it to anyone wanting to produce an affective diagram which puts their ideas across clearly.
Following on from this, we then had to research on the internet different education blogs and chose two or three that we personally thought were good examples.

Evaluating the website!

In my ICT class, i worked in a group of four and had to chose a topic and website to reaserch. The topic we chose to discuss was obesity in children and the website was called emedicine.com. After deciding what topic to reserarch we all individually reareched different websites about childhood obesity, and then came together at the end discussing what ideas/facts we found and came to a decision in what website we were going to choose. After chosing the website we thought about what was good and bad about the website and why we chose it?
We had to further present out website to the class firstly saying what topic we chose to study and why? Then we went on the discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the site. At the end of the presentation the class asked a series of questions about how relaible the site was, and how did we know this? when was it last updated? who made the website etc.

All about me!

I'm a first year university student, and study at swansea metropolitan univeristy studying an educational studies degree. The reaosn i chose to do this course is because since the age of 11, ive been interested in becoming a primary school teacher. The experiences i have undertaken have also increased my passion and want to work within a school enviroment. I chose to study at Swansea beacuse it not too far from home and i prefered this univeristy out of my other choices.