Me, Me, Me...
It’s no secret that I have been struggling to write my first blog. Because of this, I have decided to do a little introduction to myself, to ease myself in to this new blogging world! I’m Amy, a second...
View ArticleRe-booting a laptop
Homework from today’s ICT lesson with Ed was to write a quick blog post about what we did in the lesson – rebooting a laptop. This is something I knew nothing about – if I have a problem with my...
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Kodu Experiment!
As part of my current ICT module, we had a look at ‘control technologies’ to be used in schools. We had a look at programmes like Flowol which were interesting but we then looked at using Kodu, Lego...
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I Can Play the Ukulele!
I have a long list of things to do on my ’Bucket List’ – one being to learn an instrument. I played the piano when I was younger but stopped when we moved house and had to sell the piano. As part of...
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I Spoke at a Teach Meet!
When my lecturers Pete Yeomans and Oliver Quinlan asked over Christmas if any of our class fancied a free trip to BETT in January, I jumped at the chance. But there was a catch – give a two minute...
View ArticleMy First Podcast
Module two of ICT this year and Steve Wheeler is taking us for ‘Psychological Perspectives and ICT’. I studied Psychology as part of my Access Course the year before coming to university and so when I...
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I am an I.S.F.J.!
I am an I.S.F.J. – that’s an introverted, sensing, feeling and judging person – according to the Jung Typology Test. As part of our Psychology and ICT module, Pete asked us to go to this website...
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Developing My Writing
When I began University I was insistent that I would achieve a first class degree – this is still my dream but recently, I have been wondering whether that is all it is – just a dream. Can I really...
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What Do People Think Of Me?
Pete started our ICT lecture asking us to write down how we think our course mates perceive us. We are all great friends and enjoy a lot of ‘banter’ and so I thought I knew what they would write about...
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The Past Few Weeks...
Wow… it has been a hectic few weeks! I have had so much going on that I haven’t had a spare moment for my blog, but thought I would do a quick update as lots has been going on. The main highlight of...
View ArticleI Organised a Teach Meet!
Pete offered our class the opportunity to organise a Teach Meet to get free entry to the PELeCON event and so I jumped at the chance! Along with James Stoner and Scott Parker we set about planning our...
View ArticleYear Two Placement - Amazing!
So, it has been a LONG time since my last post! The last 5 weeks have been manic with my second year placement, which has been absolutely amazing.Having spent a week with the class before Easter, I was...
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Another School Trip?!
After my amazing week long residential to London with the Year Six at my placement school, I was really lucky to be asked to go on another residential – this time with Year Two on a two night trip to...
View ArticleA New Year...
So, it’s the 10th September and time for me to move back to Plymouth for my third year (how did time go that fast?!).After an amazing Summer (Ibiza, Woolacombe, Isles of Scilly, festival, friends,...
View ArticleWhy Do I Want To Teach?
I was lucky enough to be invited along to a Plymouth primary school to join in on an introduction to the new Digital Literacy course for the new starters. Bob Harrison gave a great interactive talk,...
View ArticleTo what extent does YouTube influence teachers’ practice in the primary...
To what extent does YouTube influence teachers’ practice in the primary classroom?AimsThe aim of this study is to investigate to what extent YouTube influences teachers’ practice in the primary...
View ArticleWhat A Year!
I’ve been thinking recently about getting back into blogging. I’ve found this year (my third year, out of four) to be the busiest yet and blogging sort of fell to the side line. Apart from my...
View ArticleThe Business of Education...
I got speaking to Pete today about a recent Radio 4 broadcast – ‘The Education Business’ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rgmbh) It sounded interesting so I had a listen to the broadcast and have...
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