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Semester B – Third Year – Alternative Education Reflection Week 1: Today was my first session back at University following the Christmas break. We have now officially finished Semester A and have moved onto Semester B, which means we are now being introduced to the final modules of the Education Studies course. One of theseContinue reading “Creative Autobiography”

This week our task was to produce a set of rules/guidelines for an online group. These rules/guidelines would need to ensure that the group runs as smoothly as possible. We were instructed to use ‘Prezi’, an online presenting tool which I have personally never used before. We were able to get ourselves into groups andContinue reading “Learning Outcome 4 Reflection.”

Our task for today was to create a board game for primary school aged children. This creation needed to be done through the use of technology and software of our choice. I decided to use Publisher as I am confident with using this design software and know how to use the basic tools for creatingContinue reading “Creation of a Board Game Using Technology.”

Due to the United Kingdom still in a state of ‘Lockdown’ due to the coronavirus, this session was again started via Moodle. I said ‘Hello’ and waited for further instruction regarding the session while Mark replied and welcomed everybody individually. While we waited for the instruction from Mark, I set aside some time to reflectContinue reading “28.04.2020 – Gamification Poster.”

Prior to this session we were asked to create a presentation containing photographs of ten items which resembled us as a person. Caunt (2010) advises that when planning a presentation, you must consider how you would like it to look before choosing the presentation software. Therefore, I pre-planned some ideas and looked at numerous presentationContinue reading “Commentary 2/3”

“First impressions are very important and no less so for teachers introducing themselves to their class for the first time” (Bosch, 2006, p.23) This session was our first session with Mark and therefore we started with an introduction from him in order to get to know him as a tutor and also allow him toContinue reading “Commentary 3/3”

According to Albert (2012) effective learning takes place through the interaction of a more knowledgeable other (MKO). Mangal (2019) states that an MKO can be a parent, a teacher or somebody who is generally more knowledgeable in a specific topic. At the start of the session, we were instructed to open ‘Dream Weaver’, a webContinue reading “Commentary 1/3”

On starting this session I was unsure how it was being delivered as I had not received any instruction prior to the session. I logged into Moodle and found some instructions which had been posted from Mark which included watching two videos. However, I was then instructed to go onto the ‘Lets Chat’ forum whichContinue reading “31.03.20”

Due to a Government lockdown, the university centre is currently closed, and therefore we have been given the task of studing online learning options for our group. This session started with myself and my peers logging into ‘Moodle’ which is the University’s ‘Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment’. From here we were advised by our tutorContinue reading “24.03.2020 – Online Teaching Platforms.”