Late-Night Blogging...

Good Evening.
I shouldn't be saying this but i have been far too busy to blog with Caroline's and Sian's presentations looming overhead...
...but here I am, at 10:20pm sat at my old computer (my laptop still in repair at PC World), talking to whoever is reading this.

Here is a (not so) brief summary of the past few weeks events.

• Education - Policy & Practice

I have not seen many Guests speaker as of late, I am either not in due to illness, child's illness or the lecture being cancelled. 

• Contexts for Thinking and Learning

Stacey, Mathew, Kristian and I did our presentation for 'Fact or Opinion' about Transgender. Here is my Evaluation of the Presentation as written on my Reflective Log

         "I found this assignment quite fun and interesting to do, i learnt quite a bit about the subject in hand. I found out things I had no idea about, things I thought I knew and things that I was almost certain on. I Still  feel that we had missed the point of the presentation in the fact that I feel the subject (transgender) was wrong for the strategy we were given. I feel that the marks given will reflect this. I hope that the seminar paper will back my presentation."

• Theories of Thinking and Learning

Natalie, Emily and myself are yet to do our presentation for Sian's lecture. It is about Jerome. S. Bruner - that is happening on the 28th February.

• ICT

Things have been getting interestnig in ICT recently. We now have Suzie Pugh for the Lecture. We hhave talked about Tracey Emin

 

I have no always been a fan of modern art but i will go into more depth in my next blog...entitled "Ode To Tate"

right i am off to bed now, i am getting tired now. More next time!

Google Chrome Apps

On exploring Google Chrome, I came across an app called 'Connected Mind'.

This is such a handy tool for MindMapping for Sian's Lectures. 

Amazing. 'Nuf Said.

Another Research Week...to clean or not to clean??

In each term in , we are given a research week.
Whether we research how our Dyson works, the effect of alcohol on the body or the effects of Jeremy Kyle's Voice is one thing, but we are supposed to complete tasks given to us by lecturers. Which is fair enough.

So I finished my cleaning and sat on my lovely new bed and read what we had been given for Sian Sanders' task in 'Theories of Thinking and Learning'. I just could not get my head round it. I shall leave that for breakfast, i thought. It was 11pm.

So, I found the Google Chrome Web Store and came across a program called 'Pulsate'.

It is sort of a "make-your-own-ambient-music" thingymabob. I love it. I urge anyone to open it, click the black screen for a few bubbles and return to studying. The bubbles move or 'pulsate' back and forth, until they bump into each other and create a note/tone/pretty noise. The more bubbles you click, the better. Click until you have the right sound, pop the kettle on, pick up that reading/book/assignment and go for it.

I finally understand what 'Emotional Intelligence' is.