Nostalgia

In today's lesson we had to think of an emotion and try to portray these emotions through pictures/photos we took around the uni campus. I chose to study the emotion nostalgia or loneliness. We were given 30minutes to have a walk round the campus in pairs to collect any photographs we thought matched our chosen emotion. Once we arrived back at the class, we had to upload our photo's onto the computer and onto our blogs, ready to share with the class in the following session. My 6 chosen photo's are listed below:

Guest Speaker- Graham Allen

For today's lecture we were taught by the enviromental manager of swansea university. The topic he taught us wsas on "Education for suitable development". Firsty, we learned about what coroporate responsibity is and what does it invlove? For example-Coroporate responsibity in the education sector. We further went on to learn about digression- the benefits of growth. Foloowing on from this we touched upon GDP and the fundamental priciples of sustainable development.

suzzie-Metaphors/ i have a dream

To start of today's lesson we continued with our photo montages for the first 15minutes or so. Then we went round the class discussing and explaining what we had cut out and why? For example, what purpose or meaning it has to you? Following on from this, we were given a number of pictures which all had a metaphoric story behind them. Our task was to work out in groups of 3 what the metaphor behind the picture was. Then we watched a short clip to end the lesson called i have a dream, where we had to take some notes on any metaphor's we came across in the american speech.

Creativity with Suzzie

In today's visual communication lesson we were concentrating closely on the assignment as there has been some confusion. Firstly, suzzie went through the brief with us to make sure we all understood what we had to do and how the mark scheme works etc. Shortly after, we carried out a small task in which we had to write down memories we have from childhood, could of been negative or positive or even both. We then had to crumble up the piece of paper and throw it across the room for another person in the class to read out.Once everyone had a different piece of paper, as a class we discussed the differences or similarities of what people wrote down. After this, we were put into groups of 3 and given a A3 piece of paper and different resources such as newspapers, magazines etc where we had to cut out what we though were our sense of place. We didn't quite finish this so we are carrying on with this in the next session.

Guest Speaker 4- Olive Hopker

For Today's lecture What is Education? Olive Hopker who is the head of planning and development at Swansea university. She taught us all about collaboration versus competition. To begin the lecture she gave us all a small handout each named example of Government Statements, which we had to read quietly to ourselves.
In this session, i learned the benefits and the limitations of both collaboration and competition.

Guest Speaker 3- Steve Gullick

Today we had our final seminar with Steve Gullick, who is the director of the all wales center fir Governor training and research. Again, we taught us more about governors, however unlike the previous session we learnt more knowledge about the work of governors. Steve gave us a small introduction to which countries and the percentages of how there is lack of governors in these areas. e.g- deprived areas-these suffer the most.
He then introduced us to a man called Professor Stuart Ranson and explained his thoughts and opinions about governors. Ranson came to the conclusion that governors are often white, middle aged and middle class. Based on this, Steve then went on to explain why this is? I learnt that this is because black ethnic minorities may not get a job as a governor due to a language barrier. In order to become a governor it is vital to have the English language.
Following on from this we had a handout by Peter Early on his 4 main types of governing bodies. We discussed this handout as a whole to come to some answers we all agreed on.
To end this session, we were given a question. Should training be compulsory? Answers to this was the Welsh Government is bringing out a law that to become a Governor you must have basic training and the same to became a chair.

5 objects

In today's session we all had to bring in five objects that had a particular meaning to us. My five objects i bought in were my camera,mobile phone, car keys, ipod and a bracelet. All of which had different meaning to me. A little while later, we arranged ourselves into small groups and went out into the corridor just outside the classroom where we spread all our objects out and discussed individually why we chose these objects and what meaning they bring to us. Again, i found this lesson very interesting and it was nice to see everyone's objects and to listen to their reasons why they chose to bring them today

Suzzie's first session

For our first visual communication lesson we were introduced to our eductaor Suzzie Pugh. To begin the lesson we arranged the table and chairs into a circle where we had to do a starter task to introduce ourselves and mention our hobbies and what backround knowledge we may have or in my case didn't have. Following on from this, suzzie then put up on display two pictures and a video. The whole idea of this was for us to use our imagination and thoughts of what we thought the artists were trying to portray through their work. I found this lesson very interesting and exciting. I thought that it was a good way of making everyone as a whole class to think and to express our thoughts.

Guest Speaker 3- Steve Gulluck

In Todays Lecture for the module What is Education? We had a Steve Gullcuk who we had in the previous lecture teaching us about Governors. Today was really i re-cap session on governors, however he did expand and go into more detail about how governors act within a school. We were given a handout which explained breifty the contact between school governors and teaching staff. The things we touched upon were job interviews, informal visits to schools, celebrations and many more. We also had a seminor session with Steve where we learnt all about health and saftey procedures governors have to undertake, and also strategic planning that has to be put into place. Overall, i found the seminor much more interesting and more useful than lecture as i thought the lecture was almost a repeat of the previous lecture he took.