Open the red curtains… Its show time!

Week 7 – Exhibition

What a day! The classroom was no more, we had transformed this room into a gallery now full of colour and creativity. This exhibition was a fantastic way of meeting the third and second years, also having our mentors able to come down and finally see what we have been speaking about in the previous weeks.

Videos, puzzles, collages and knit work; just a few of the methods that were used. It was great to see how people used different methods for their project which I thought would be really hard to do myself.

 

Getting feedback from our peers and the students from other years was really helpful and uplifting. The creativity shone today in TMG-45 😉 Well done to everyone, team work makes the dream work.

Presentation Day!

 Week 6 – Presenting our findings from the reading: Campfire in cyberspace.

We briefly came together with our groups to discuss and show what we had come up with in our own time (our collages and annotations). We shared our notes and clarified how we were going to present it to the class. It was fantastic to see that everyone in our group #topjob had come up with such good work!

We were the first group to present to the class (nervous much!!) Although i was filled with nerves, i felt like it went quite well. Everyone was able to share their key points and views from their two pages. Once we had finished Tom reflected back and picked up a few good pointers that were made. He then asked if there were any questions from the rest of the class but luckily they let us off lightly and no hands were raised. Each group then presented their piece to the class. This was a really good way for me to gain a slight understanding of some of the texts and what they focussed on, while thinking of ways that i may be able to link this to my research proposal.

Mentors

I was looking forward to meeting with our mentors today as i have been quite worried about the research proposal, which is due in a few weeks. Having not seen any examples of what a research proposal looks like, i was stuck with where to start. The mentors being their wicked selves though, had helped me out good and proper! Going through examples i now have a clear understanding of what i need to do and include. I feel much more confident on making a start now, so now i have made up my mind on what question i want to do, i can go home and get cracking! #wickedmentors 🙂

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Pyjama week! 
Week 5 task: Explore the university’s different ‘learning spaces’: Formal and informal. 
Myself, Louise and Charlotte gave up a good lay in on a lavely Wednesday morning to come in and crack on with this project. We decided in the previous lecture to create a collage to present our findings to the class, which will be in week 7. So off we went taking lots of pictures of what we thought was relevant to the task.. Selfies! Just kidding 😉 
“Learning is active and interactive – we learn as we speak, listen, draw, read and write”. – Tom and Sandra. 
Baring this in mind we captured many places in lots of different areas where we thought learning would / was taking place. Not only did we look at the ‘places’ or ‘spaces’ we also looked at what was in and around those places to. We found that: 

• Light 

• Temperature 

• Colour

• Comfort 

• Layout 

• Space  

And many more… Were all key factors in those learning spaces. These are what we thought would make a huge impact on the learning taking place, for example, if the room is boiling hot you are more likely to feel sleepy and not be focussed. 
We met up with Sandra to show her what we had come up with so far, which was super helpful. We got some things clarified and were able to grab some material from her office to make a start on putting our collage together. On the way to her office Sandra told us about this massive banner she and Tom had hung in the stairway. They wasn’t allowed to hang it up but once it was there, 12 years later it still hadn’t been taken down (yes for them!). Very inspiring! 
  

After gathering our notes together and making sense of what we had we began to print off all the pictures we had taken on our devices. Some money and some time later we managed to piece everything together to create our collage, well done gang! 
What a way to bond with your classmates. I didn’t mind losing a lay in after that activity! =) Let’s just hope this makes sense to everybody In week 7 when we present it! I’ll let you know how it went. 

#becomingeducational 

Pyjama’s & books

So this week is study week (was study week, I’m abit late with my blog!). Can not belive we are five weeks in! But it’s not all pyjama’s and books as Tom and Sandra have sent us on a journey around the never ending London Metropolitan. 

Week 5 task: Explore the university’s different ‘learning spaces’: Formal and informal. 
Myself, Louise and Charlotte gave up a good lay in on a lavely Wednesday morning to come in and crack on with this project. We decided in the previous lecture to create a collage to present our findings to the class, which will be in week 7. We met in the rocket to go through the task and what exactly it was we had to present in our collage, and why. Having read and made a small collage for the reading ‘Campfires in cyberspace’ I felt quite prepared and confident. So off we went taking lots of pictures of what we thought was relevant to the task.. Selfies! Just kidding 😉 
“Learning is active and interactive – we learn as we speak, listen, draw, read and write”. – Tom and Sandra. 
Baring this in mind we captured many places in lots of different areas where we thought learning would / was taking place, formal and informal. Not only did we look at the ‘places’ or ‘spaces’ we also looked at what was in and around those places to. We found that: 

• Light 

• Temperature 

• Colour

• Comfort 

• Layout 

• Space  

And many more… Were all key factors in those learning spaces. These are what we thought would make a huge impact on the learning taking place, for example, if the room is boiling hot you are more likely to feel sleepy and not be focussed. 
We met up with Sandra to show her what we had come up with so far, which was super helpful. We got some things clarified and were able to grab some material from her office to make a start on putting our collage together. On the way to her office Sandra told us about this massive banner she and Tom had hung in the stairway. They wasn’t allowed to hang it up but once it was there, 12 years later it still hadn’t been taken down (yes for them!). Very inspiring! 
  

After gathering our notes together and making sense of what we had, we began to print off all the pictures we had taken on our devices. Some money and some time later we managed to piece everything together to create our collage, well done gang! 
What a way to bond with your classmates. I didn’t mind losing a lay in after that activity! =) Let’s just hope this makes sense to everybody In week 7 when we present it! Wish us luck! 

#becomingeducational