March 27

Week 20 –

Assessment Criteria:

Reflect critically on

  • articles/book chapters you have read
  • what you’ve learned from your lectures
  • the development of your project
  • your experiences of working with multimedia software and equipment
  • other relevant experiences related to your project

 

?? literacy issues?? – improvement to project to add in their own audio, to take more ownership of their own work.

multimedia theory – tested the e-resource on the classroom’s interactive whiteboard, to check size, colour, visual look and …

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March 13

Week 18- Challenges & Issues

Mondays 13/03/17 class.

 

Content

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  • Difficulty in fully understanding the module criteria, as it was unexplained at the beginning.
  • Expected module outcomes, were unexplained.
    • Tricky to understand what was expected overall in the assignment,
    • Unaware that the assignment encompassed creating more than one resource, rather than just one resource,
    • Tricky to understand what was expected in/from each class,
    • Tricky to understand how each class related to the assignment.
  • Difficulty when choosing my e-resource learning topic,
    • Unaware of what software I could use,
    • Difficulty in understanding limitations in relation to software, and what I could and couldn’t do with different software,
    • Due to limitations, it was difficult to narrow down activities, once I had decided on the topic.
  • Found it easy to specify on my age range
    • As I will be starting teacher training in September 2017, the chosen age range is the same age that I will train to teach.
  • My first time creating a blog…
    • Unsure of what to write and how to write,
    • Due to needing a 2:1 degree minimum, I felt there was extra pressure in writing my blog
      • due to the essay structure that I am typically used to.  I will draft, re-draft and re-draft until I am happy with the essay to submit it. But as this blog consists of many posts since the start of the module in September 2016, I was concerned that I may not write about everything that was expected, or write it in the expected way.
  • Future challenge…
    • The learning objectives will stay the same or similar, but outcomes could change overtime, due to changes in curriculum and technology.
Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  • No prior teacher training, as the BA course does not include any teacher training. Also doing PGCE next academic year. Therefore low understanding of the particular process to progress through
  • Fluidity of technology – constant changes in technology, access, e-learning
  • Consistency of topic, and changes in the topic over time
  • similar learning objectives but outcomes could change overtime, e.g. age group or increased subtraction work instead of just addition.
  • awareness of available technology
  • narrowing down the specifics of activities
  • user research – dont get to test the e-resources, unless I test them on my own accord.
  • instructional video quality – uploaded to youtube and it re-renderes the video size and the quality reduces.
  • colours on the interactive whiteboard
  • computer issues experienced with recording the videos, especially when recording both visual and auditory.
Creation – Own Knowledge
  • Prior to this module I had only used YouTube to watch videos and not create videos
  • Prior to this module I have not use powerpoint animations before.  This was quite daunting to me, but after I had created the session 1 story, I felt really confident in myself that I could do it again and probably be more adventurous with the animations that I used.

 

Time Appropriate – class time is not the most appropriate time for focussed/ concentration/ good learning. on Monday’s at 4pm-6pm.

 

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March 6

Week 17 – Informal and Social Learning

Mondays 06/03/17 class.

 

Information and Social Learning:

Informal- personal and social endeavour

Social- learning with and from others

 

What do the terms mean to you?  

Informal and social learning are very much dependent on the individual; what they want to achieve and why they want to achieve it

How could they impact the development, design and or delivery of your work?

 

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February 27

Week 16 – Mobile Learning and Coding

Monday class 27/02/17   –  The Hour of Code

https://www.getready.io/hourofcode-maze

 

Mobile learning encompasses a lot of what e-learning is about.  Essentially 24/7 access anywhere.

Mobile learning can be increasingly creative in relation to topical learning, topic dependent.  For example, session 2 e-resource activity requires pupils to actively be creative in finding out different ways of counting, therefore a progression of the session 2 activity (school funding and age dependent), could progress to include an orienteering activity around the school using a mobile phone, to find a certain number of chairs, a specific coloured table. This interactive learning incorporates personalization principle, multimedia principle and visual principle.  These principles can vary dependent on the activity, the learning objectives and learning outcome.

 

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January 3

First post of 2017…Tuesday 03/01/17

First post of 2017…

So it has been a while, since my last blog post.  We have had the Christmas break and New Year.  Unfortunately, on Boxing day I became unwell and have been forced to take a little break from blogging and other assignments.  I am on the mend but I am still not feeling 100% and I am extremely tired, however, I am back in the blog world and ready to continue with this e-learning activity.

 

Over the Christmas break, I have been thinking about e-learning and have been discussing my ideas with family members.  They have provided positive feedback so far, which has given me a little boost towards this project.

I think the first task that I will set myself in 2017, will be to look into the MS Powerpoint story.  I will do some research into other stories and other possible stories given through the medium of MS Powerpoint.

I will blog again shortly…

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November 11

Additional Reading – Approaches to Children’s Learning 11/11/16

Today I had a class for one of my other modules – Primary Education.

The class session was focused on Approaches to Children’s Learning.  I felt that this was a very interesting class, which provided information on how children learn.

I decided that it would be useful to reflect on this class, and to incorporate into this E-Learning module and assignment E-Resource.

Link to this Blog post: Approaches to Children’s Learning

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