Tagxedo

I used Tagxedo to create this image with slight animation. I listed the words that I wanted in my image and then used the a shape that I wanted and I used the treble clef. I couls chnage the colour of it and also the font. What I liked about this one was when you scroll over a word it turns the right way up and the goes bigger so you can see what it says.

The graffiti creator

I experimented with 'The graffiti creator' It was up to me what word I chose, so i decided to use my theme 'Music' This would make the word into graffiti, I could then stick to one colour or use a number of colours. The edit features consisted of addind stripes, bubbles and then could also add shadows. I found this one very simple to understand and was fun to use.

Text-Image

I used Text-image to create a image out of text. The theme i chose to work with was 'Music'. The word I used was 'Enrique' as I like the artists music. It was up to me what word I chose but i felt picking a artist was relevant to the image. I could change the background colour but decided to keep it to black.

Placement before Christmas

During my week of placement I went to a primary school. There were 8 classes, starting with nursery/reception and ending with year 6.

Each class had a computer and a interactive whiteboard, during the mornings the teacher would use the computer to do the register and to record information about the children such as if they were having dinners and had paid, if they were entitled to free school meals or if the child was in sandwiches.

In the year 6 class that I went the teach handed each child a mini whiteboard and marker pen and then used the interactive whiteboard for a group activity. This way all the children could interact together by playing educational games. 

In year 4 there was a similar activity but there was no mini whiteboards. The teacher gathered the class on the carpet and one boy and one girls was chosen, these were the 'team leaders'. They did a simple task on place value but really enjoyed being able to use the interactive pen and write on the board. It came more about the Boys V Girls challenge but the children learnt a lot on the topic.

Nursery and reception were a little different  but they did have a interactive whiteboard except it was left on all day on ceebeebies website for children to go on whenever they wanted.

Whilst being in the school I also noticed that there was a PC suite, this consisted of 16 computers and 1 interactive whiteboard. The children would use these to type up letters, make posters and play educational games.

Wiki

Two weeks ago we looked at creating a Wiki. I had only ever heard of Wikipedia so was interested to learn more, after getting shown in class I felt that it was quite interesting. A Wiki is a space where you can share information and all edit. The following week I had research week and was set a task to do on Wiki.
We were put in groups of 4 and then given a username and password; we then had to create a group. We logged on to Wiki and created a group folder. The folder was named 'Education of the future in 20 years time' in that folder we created 4 other folders with each of our names. Mandy gave us a PowerPoint to guide us and wrote some bullet points that we had to discuss. Firstly we had a group discussion of each of the points and then wrote in our named folders what we think it would be like. We also edited the front page and added pictures and also edited the fonts and colours.


I found this a really successful task and that it a wiki would be very useful in the future for things such as organizing days out with friends.

This is a video that I found fascinating, its about technology of galss in the future, I feel that this shows what display panels in schools are going to be like.

Reflecting on the task I was set

After numerous attempts of trying to complete the task I was given I have finally succeeded. When I found out that I had to Blog as a part of my ICT course I thought that it would be very interesting as Iv always wanted to do one but was never sure how. Yet after completing this task it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. I’m still new on the whole blogging weekly thing so hopefully that the reason I struggled. I feel with things like this is a lot of trail and error.
I feel that there are many different ways to reflect on your work but the one that I tend to do a lot is brainstorming or mind mapping and it wasn’t until this task that I fully understood how important it is. Being in university is a big step from school and I feel sometimes that I am given so much information in a lecture and written so many notes that I just turn off. I now feel that reflecting on my work well help me a great deal. Having a blog to write on every week will motivate me to keep on refecting on my learning and talk about what I struggled with and what I enjoyed.
Overall I found this a enjoyable experience as it’s a more enjoyable way of reflecting that just pen to paper.

Reflective learning