Wikis

Today we added the information to our wikis and edited them. Me and my group did education of the past 10 years. I focused on 'job prospects for school leavers 10 years ago'. I edited my wiki page with information from my own head and I researched jobs which were not available 10 years ago. Here is the video I put inot my wiki:



I think I was able to put alot of information on my page and I was interested to see what other people found for their pages.

Reading week

We had one week off University for reading week where we had to go away and do tasks set by lecturers. For ICT we had to create and update a wiki on pbworks, my group is doing education of the past ten years and we have a folder and individual pages on pbworks of our own wiki. I found this wiki easy to edit and use. 

Reflective learning articles and assignment

Recently we were asked to look at 2 reflective learning articles. One was a simple article which outlined the usefulness of reflective learning, which I found a useful article as it was so easy to understand and read and I felt it outlined reflective learning really well. The other article we were asked to look at was more in depth and included theories on reflective learning and how it helps us. I found the theories interesting and liked their approach to how reflective learning should be carried out and how it helps develop our own learning. 

We were also given information on our assignment. The assignment was not what I was expecting but now I'm actually looking forward to it. I like that in the assignment we will be isong ICT application as well as doing artwork. My topic idea is to do the mind and inner self because I have alot of ideas as to what I can include and people to use as insperation. I think generally I will enjoy doing the assignment and I am looking forward to getting started.

Reflective learning mindmap

This was my own reflective learning mindmap created using bubbl.us

Reflective learning and other blogs

Today we reviewed what refelective learning is about and more about what we would be doing with our blogs/reflective diary. As a group we gave ideas for a mind map on reflective learning and shared ideas. We also looked at educational blogs and chose what we liked.


One I like is classroom 2 kids on edu blogs. http://classroom2kids.edublogs.org/


I like this blog as an educational blog because it is a by a teacher blogging things they have been doing in the classroom with the children and have been sharing ideas of classroom activities. The blog is also reguarly updated and contains links to other educational blogs.

Evaluation of presentation

I thought that our initial description of the website was very brief and simple but then we answered other questions about the side very well and were able to answer everything in detail. I also felt that the way we spoke and did the presentation was good as we spoke clearly and almost always continuously. Overall I thought our presentation was good but was initially too short.

About me

I'm Catherine I'm 18 years old, I study Educational studies at Swansea Metropolitan university. I have started doing this degree because I want to have a career working with special needs children or adults but I still don't exactly know what. I thought that educational studies would offer me a wide chose of what I could do afterwards.