Different Text's

Here I visited http://www.graffiticreator.net/ and created my own graffiti, it says Ffion.

Another creative text website I used was http://www.tagxedo.com/, here it asked me for a URL that I use so I wrote down my facebook address. Then this came up:

I changed the colour of the tagxedo to different shades of blue's as these are the facebook colours. I also changed the font type to get a similir one to the facebook logo.

Another website we used was http://www.text-image.com/, here I created:

Movie Making

Last week on the 10th of Jan, Mandy us into groups of four. My group included Lucy, Carl and Tom. Mandy gave everygroup a topic, ours was "people". The main object of the movie was to have no sound! Here we had to go around the University and record them. We wrote down on a peice of paper their name and their role in the Uni, they then held this up. After we wrote on a peice of paper "we come to her if we..." etc. We had a total of 22 clips. After an hour of going around the Uni we came back to the classroom and put them in order, next we put a song as the background music and speeded up the clip. We are showing them to our class next week :)!

My Placement

Its the 10th of Januray and my 2nd day back at Uni. At last week of Uni before the Christmas holidays we had "placement". Here I visited my old Primary School, Catwg. I visited for a school week and got put into Year1. I visited a Primary School whilst at College each Wednesday afternoon and assisted in Nursery and Year3, so Year1 was very different experience. As it was close to Christmas, the whole school were preparing for the Christmas concert. I got involved helping the children to remember their lines, learn new dance routines and songs. I throughly enjoyed watching back it was so funny!
The school is alot more modernized from when I was there. In there classroom there are 2 computers, from here the register is reported. At afternoons the children had activitys such as crafts, acting in the playcorner and toys. Another activity was on the computer, here the children had to work in partners to complete puzzles on screen.
Also in the classroom there is now a interactive whiteboard, the Teacher used this everyday whilst the children sat on the carpet watching.

Animations

In last weeks lesson we looked at the differernt technology in education. Using our wiki's from the week before we made a presentation and showed the class. My presentation included the new 21st century technology such as whiteboards and computers and how they help children.
We then went onto look at animations. Mandy told us about an application called "2simple". Here we created our own individual animations

We then presented them to the class and told classmates how we did it.

Creating a Wiki

In last weeks lesson, Mandy put us into groups of 3. I was in a group with Lucy and Sophie. Mandy gave each group a topic, ours was "Education of today in Wales." Within the group we had subtitles and had to go onto the internet to find information. My title was "What is the technology like in Schools in Wales?" I visited different internet sites and found that teachers are now using 21st century technology such as whiteboards and computers.

Preparation

We are now starting to focus on our first assignment in Mandy Peace's lesson. We have to make a portfolio of a specific thing. I think this can be anything you want. Mandy gave us older assignments and we had to give them a grade A-E and then she told us their actual grade. We got given an assignment each, I had a boys portfolio which was all about his life in the army before Uni. There was alot of writing about what he had acheived, yet not detailed photographs or drawings so unfortunatly it did not catch my eye. Infact it was quite bland. The girls sitting next to me however, had a girls portfolio, the girl told the story of her life having pictures of a girls holiday, her brothers and sisters and her hobbies etc. The pages were bright and so colourful so I would give her an A!

Reflective Learning

I beleive "reflective learning" is looking back at a peice of work and simply reflecting what you have learnt. It can also be looked at as assessing your own work to see if you think you have reached your target. Reflective learning can help a student to understand their strengths and weaknesses by seeing where they have gone wrong. By looking back over my work I can recognize areas that need improvement
Reflection can lead to greater self-awareness, which in turn is a first step to positive change and growth in both personal and professional contexts. Taking time to reflect can help you identify approaches that have worked well, and in that way reinforce good practice.