My reflections of the essay writing module
Firstly the module lets the user understand how to approach the topic given then to collate the information provided, to develop your argument and incorporate your research into the final written essay.
It is very helpful in that the module has little exercises that you would click on words and immediately you are given answers to what words mean.
It suggests you look closely at your essay topic and the information your tutor has provided. Then ask your self some questions like: what does the essay question require you to do, what information do you have to look at, and what are you writing about?
To do this you need to identify three types of words - Instruction words - Content words - Relationship words
Instruction words are the action words in the topic and tell you what to do.
Some examples are: analyse, describe, discuss, justify, compare.
Content words are typically nouns and verbs that represent the key concepts of the essay.
Relationship words connect different aspects of the essay.
Some common relationship words are: in the light of, with reference to, drawing on, assess in terms of, according to, and influenced by.
This module is very good, it is simple, and it has easy to follow instructions with one click arrows and answers.
Monday, July 21, 2008
My reflections of the essay writing module.
Firstly the module lets the user understand how to approach the topic given then to collate the information provided, to develop your argument and incorporate your research into the final written essay.
It is very helpful in that the module has little exercises that you would click on words and immediately you are given answers to what words mean.
It suggests you look closely at your essay topic and the information your tutor has provided. Then ask your self some questions like: what does the essay question require you to do, what information do you have to look at, and what are you writing about?
To do this you need to identify three types of words - Instruction words - Content words - Relationship words.
Firstly the module lets the user understand how to approach the topic given then to collate the information provided, to develop your argument and incorporate your research into the final written essay.
It is very helpful in that the module has little exercises that you would click on words and immediately you are given answers to what words mean.
It suggests you look closely at your essay topic and the information your tutor has provided. Then ask your self some questions like: what does the essay question require you to do, what information do you have to look at, and what are you writing about?
To do this you need to identify three types of words - Instruction words - Content words - Relationship words.
Instruction words are the action words in the topic and tell you what to do.
Some examples are: analyse, describe, discuss, justify, compare.
Content words are typically nouns and verbs that represent the key concepts of essay Relationship words connect different aspects of the topic.
Some common relationship words are: in the light of, with reference to, drawing on, assess in terms of, according to, and influenced by।
This module is very good, it is simple, and it has easy to follow instructions with one click arrows and anwers.
Monday, July 7, 2008
Morguefile.com visitor
MY REFLECTION OF MORGUEFILE.COM/: five minute tripod
I went onto this website to be confronted by a window with moguefile; contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.Then I scrolled down to morguefile blog and clicked on three blog sites to see where I’d browsed.
The first was a step-by step images for a book cover.
The second was Zack Arias telling us in a seven minute video about how to best get photographs and these were: Texture, technical aspects, most intimidating factor especially with off camera lighting, there is no magic bullet, there is no fast track to doing this, there’s no one piece of equipment that is the answer to everything you have to do, the piece of equipment that you need most is up between your ears, you’ve got to be thinking this through, you’ve got to understand what’s going on, exposure variables.
Shutter speed controls ambient exposure, the ambient light in your environment, get in the mode to shoot, get ready; have to be thinking about what has to come out, have gear ready, into bull pen –studio, test shot first, cleanest file first, started at f4, f21 is a black silhouette, have motion is shot, whip the hair, outside; use light to bring the eye to the subject, 60 inch shoot through lights and environment – model standing beside building can view the sky at top of building, 28 inch softbox keeps light directed on subject – same shot as before just darker.
Then I clicked on bottle cap tripod, an instructional video where you can learn to make a tripod from a soft drink bottle cap with a bolt screwed though the middle of the cap, washers and nut hold the bolt in place, a wing nut is place on top of the nut with another washer as a spacer, then screw the camera to the bottle cap, then screw the cap back on bottle. This gives a nice sturdy base from which to take pictures! I have copy paste the website address below so readers can see first hand for yourselves, enjoy.
http://www.popsci.com/video/2007-07/introducing-popsci-5-minute-project-videos-bottle-cap-tripod
I went onto this website to be confronted by a window with moguefile; contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.Then I scrolled down to morguefile blog and clicked on three blog sites to see where I’d browsed.
The first was a step-by step images for a book cover.
The second was Zack Arias telling us in a seven minute video about how to best get photographs and these were: Texture, technical aspects, most intimidating factor especially with off camera lighting, there is no magic bullet, there is no fast track to doing this, there’s no one piece of equipment that is the answer to everything you have to do, the piece of equipment that you need most is up between your ears, you’ve got to be thinking this through, you’ve got to understand what’s going on, exposure variables.
Shutter speed controls ambient exposure, the ambient light in your environment, get in the mode to shoot, get ready; have to be thinking about what has to come out, have gear ready, into bull pen –studio, test shot first, cleanest file first, started at f4, f21 is a black silhouette, have motion is shot, whip the hair, outside; use light to bring the eye to the subject, 60 inch shoot through lights and environment – model standing beside building can view the sky at top of building, 28 inch softbox keeps light directed on subject – same shot as before just darker.
Then I clicked on bottle cap tripod, an instructional video where you can learn to make a tripod from a soft drink bottle cap with a bolt screwed though the middle of the cap, washers and nut hold the bolt in place, a wing nut is place on top of the nut with another washer as a spacer, then screw the camera to the bottle cap, then screw the cap back on bottle. This gives a nice sturdy base from which to take pictures! I have copy paste the website address below so readers can see first hand for yourselves, enjoy.
http://www.popsci.com/video/2007-07/introducing-popsci-5-minute-project-videos-bottle-cap-tripod
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Help is here my friend
Some things I can share with my fellow students
STUDY SKILLS:
· Organisation
· Procrastination
· Prepare for assignments, essays and reports
TIME MANAGEMENT:
1. Prioritise
2. Dealing with priorities
NOTES:
Ø Courtesy shown to others
Ø Demonstrate sample of activity – allow for lapses,
must be self corrective though
Ø Allow for illness and bereavement
Ø Allow for training days, sport days,
recreation and cultural pursuits
NOTE-TAKING:
Record new data
Summarise
Record ideas
Communicate to others
Show relationships
Create revision notes
Plan
For recall
RANGE:
v Written
v Graphics
v Diagrams
v Tables
v Graphs
v Flow charts
v Mind maps
v Diagrammatic forms
v Comic strips
v Story boards
v Graphic designer
TECHNIQUES:
o Purpose of technique defined
o Identified
o Key points identified
o Recorded as summary
SPECIAL NOTES:
a) Awareness to express underpinning concept of learning
b) Effective learning specific
c) Need to learn and want to learn
d) Take responsibility
e) Explore and optimise own learning
f) Learn with confidence, curiosity, and initiative
g) Transfer learning to new situations
READING:
I. Skimming and scanning
II. Read in-depth
MEMORY TECHNIQUES:
Mind mapping
Flashcards
Mnemonics
EXAM PREPARATION:
o Prepare for exam
o Memorise skills
WRITING ESSAYS:
o Understand topic
o Plan essay
o Know types of information
o Gather and use info
o Write the essay
o Structure the essay
o Grammar
o Proof read
PRESENT A POSTER:
RESEARCH INFORMATION:
APA REFERENCING:
THINKING SKILL:
o Left brain/right brain
o Learning model of metacognition
o Knowledge of different thinking processes
All these would definitely help my fellow students/classmates!!! Taken from the develop skill for students.
Definitely information I will be sharing around with friends and acquaintances on and off campus. This is a sure thing.
STUDY SKILLS:
· Organisation
· Procrastination
· Prepare for assignments, essays and reports
TIME MANAGEMENT:
1. Prioritise
2. Dealing with priorities
NOTES:
Ø Courtesy shown to others
Ø Demonstrate sample of activity – allow for lapses,
must be self corrective though
Ø Allow for illness and bereavement
Ø Allow for training days, sport days,
recreation and cultural pursuits
NOTE-TAKING:
Record new data
Summarise
Record ideas
Communicate to others
Show relationships
Create revision notes
Plan
For recall
RANGE:
v Written
v Graphics
v Diagrams
v Tables
v Graphs
v Flow charts
v Mind maps
v Diagrammatic forms
v Comic strips
v Story boards
v Graphic designer
TECHNIQUES:
o Purpose of technique defined
o Identified
o Key points identified
o Recorded as summary
SPECIAL NOTES:
a) Awareness to express underpinning concept of learning
b) Effective learning specific
c) Need to learn and want to learn
d) Take responsibility
e) Explore and optimise own learning
f) Learn with confidence, curiosity, and initiative
g) Transfer learning to new situations
READING:
I. Skimming and scanning
II. Read in-depth
MEMORY TECHNIQUES:
Mind mapping
Flashcards
Mnemonics
EXAM PREPARATION:
o Prepare for exam
o Memorise skills
WRITING ESSAYS:
o Understand topic
o Plan essay
o Know types of information
o Gather and use info
o Write the essay
o Structure the essay
o Grammar
o Proof read
PRESENT A POSTER:
RESEARCH INFORMATION:
APA REFERENCING:
THINKING SKILL:
o Left brain/right brain
o Learning model of metacognition
o Knowledge of different thinking processes
All these would definitely help my fellow students/classmates!!! Taken from the develop skill for students.
Definitely information I will be sharing around with friends and acquaintances on and off campus. This is a sure thing.
Just playing around
My Reflections – DILMIT} Google Groups
I went to DILMIT to check out this course. It seems to be where a team can communicate. So, I have posted an email to someone? Thinking it has been distributed amoung my DIL class/group.
This exercise was simply to navigate this DIL program to find a kind of map to where I am going with this course. Though I have preconceived ideas of where all this information will lead me, I am not all convinced that this course “will be all and end all”. Therefore, I just need to get around and “play with it for now.
DILMIT invites users to email, to which I have done. But, where did it go? Off to cyberspace where all digital information must venture I suppose!#?
One could also open an account for a group to use by clicking the “create” button and filling in the wizard with a “nickname” for the group and other pertinent information.
Then I could not access Saving website on deli.cio.us.
Neither could I access Social Bookmarking in Plain English.
Of course I have created already a weblog, though without actually knowing what i'd done, so for the sake of utilising this new learned technology I will describe how this was made possible for myself.
I clicked on Create and maintain a basic weblog. WikiEducator and this took me to; WikiEducator.org; Blogging http://wikieducator.org/Create_and_maintain_a_basic_weblog.
I went to DILMIT to check out this course. It seems to be where a team can communicate. So, I have posted an email to someone? Thinking it has been distributed amoung my DIL class/group.
This exercise was simply to navigate this DIL program to find a kind of map to where I am going with this course. Though I have preconceived ideas of where all this information will lead me, I am not all convinced that this course “will be all and end all”. Therefore, I just need to get around and “play with it for now.
DILMIT invites users to email, to which I have done. But, where did it go? Off to cyberspace where all digital information must venture I suppose!#?
One could also open an account for a group to use by clicking the “create” button and filling in the wizard with a “nickname” for the group and other pertinent information.
Then I could not access Saving website on deli.cio.us.
Neither could I access Social Bookmarking in Plain English.
Of course I have created already a weblog, though without actually knowing what i'd done, so for the sake of utilising this new learned technology I will describe how this was made possible for myself.
I clicked on Create and maintain a basic weblog. WikiEducator and this took me to; WikiEducator.org; Blogging http://wikieducator.org/Create_and_maintain_a_basic_weblog.
This is where blogging is explained and courses can be followed by clicking on; DIL is explained, skill for tertiary students (particularly interesting for me), computer literacy (very extensive), peer tutoring (mentors/mentees), design for flexible learning (a kind of discussion board with blog sites of Otago Uni students doing a course), Art Digital Literacy (a course programme), and Facilitating online communities (use of blogging to learn).
I thought that this was very interesting and the next blog is going to be my reflection of - skills for tertiary students. SEE YOU SOON!
P.S. I found how to edit my comments at any time: click on customise, posting (tab), edit posts, click "edit" of posting required for editing.
Buzz thought to Blog
My reflections of blogging
Blogging has been around for ten years and I’m just learning how to create one! So now that I’ve got a blog on spot, is this what I’m to grow up with? Yes, of course!
It’s the age of technology and I must come to terms with how I accumulate information from this new-old system.
I suppose I could refer to my digital information learning and blogging as an appliance; much like, “putting on an electric jug or an electric toaster”. A metaphor to help me understand how to fill up my “jug” (blog) with “water” (digital information) as a way to quench my thirst for knowledge and how to fill my “toaster” (search engines) with “bread” (wikipedia) to satisfy my hunger for wisdom.
Then of course, the “water and bread” has to be “consumable and definitely palatable” (100% correct information) else wise, I grow up stunted!
So, blogging is a receptacle for my thoughts, a diary, not necessary fact yet consumable, not absolute yet palatable! A place where “I” can be 100% correct.
Now, I’m to grow up with this learning. This way of learning will eventual be an everyday part of my life. I will use this technology as though I can’t go without it. Much like checking my cell phone every morning to see if messages have been sent while I was asleep. My children and their children will grow up with this information capability and I need to grow with it, or get left in the dust with stale bread and stagnant water.
I’m duly sold on this idea, I’m now one of YOU!!!?
Blogging has been around for ten years and I’m just learning how to create one! So now that I’ve got a blog on spot, is this what I’m to grow up with? Yes, of course!
It’s the age of technology and I must come to terms with how I accumulate information from this new-old system.
I suppose I could refer to my digital information learning and blogging as an appliance; much like, “putting on an electric jug or an electric toaster”. A metaphor to help me understand how to fill up my “jug” (blog) with “water” (digital information) as a way to quench my thirst for knowledge and how to fill my “toaster” (search engines) with “bread” (wikipedia) to satisfy my hunger for wisdom.
Then of course, the “water and bread” has to be “consumable and definitely palatable” (100% correct information) else wise, I grow up stunted!
So, blogging is a receptacle for my thoughts, a diary, not necessary fact yet consumable, not absolute yet palatable! A place where “I” can be 100% correct.
Now, I’m to grow up with this learning. This way of learning will eventual be an everyday part of my life. I will use this technology as though I can’t go without it. Much like checking my cell phone every morning to see if messages have been sent while I was asleep. My children and their children will grow up with this information capability and I need to grow with it, or get left in the dust with stale bread and stagnant water.
I’m duly sold on this idea, I’m now one of YOU!!!?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
My Reflections – ‘The machine is us/ing us’
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A very intriguing clip. Text is unilinear, digital text is more flexible, hypertext can link, HTML in old days - hypertext; web, stylistic, defys content, blogging, not just text, photo, tag, we are the web, we are teaching the machine, the machine is using us, Wikipedia, rethink rhetoric’s - are some of the messages to give a clue to what it suggests.
Feedback to this video clip:
It prompts and provokes my mind as to the possibilities of the machine. The way in which text can be manipulated, so too photos, websites, email, blogging, video clips etcetera.
The composer of this clip is a class ahead of most students and access to these resources must be considered where and when education providers decide best for their students.
My Reflections – ‘Information Revolution’
Characteristics of information, it is a thing, it has a logical place - on a shelf, in a file system, in a category, it sometimes requires experts, and it is still hard to find – then there is the internet evolution, information takes on a digital form which has no fixed form, we now need to rethink information beyond material constraints – but early websites built on familiar assumptions about information, as a thing with a logistical place in a category, on a shelf –
This video clip raises the question; are we ready? Ready for information explosion and information revolution?
Feedback to this video clip:
Ho, wow! What an amazing way of information sharing. The author of the video clip certainly has an entertaining way of channelling communication and that the messages are about an explosion of information to the world web system and that this will revolutionise the way in which messages can be channelled on a WWW system; tag, blog.
My Reflections – ‘Epic 2014’
www created, amazon.com, google, blogger, Friendster, google news, gooogle mail. google earth, searchers to google grid, store, publish, msn.newsbotster, googlezon, EPIC evolving personalised information construct.
Feedback to this video clip:
So, is this the future of information sharing? Most assuredly so! Then indeed I will have to be a part of this information construct. This I understand is blogging and tagging favourites, this will ensure that I am connected with the “matrix” or rather, the larger mix of people on web.
My Reflections – ‘did you know’ (shift happns)
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet, “we can’t solve problems by using the some kind of thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein, ask your kids; are you doing this in school? Ask your principle: how are you helping my child become literate in the 21st Century? Ask your school board: are you providing the resources and training necessary to prepare students to be successful in 21st Century society? There are students in China, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh and the USA who remember, understand, anlyse, evaluate, communicate, collaborate, on projects everyday, ask your elected representatives: now that you know all this, what changes should be made to current education legislation, what’s your vision?
Feedback to this video clip:
Shift most certainly happens! And yes, I would like to be a part of this shift. And yes, I will be asking my principle and elected representative about what changes should be made so all our children, parent, civilian, public can benefit from this digital technology.
Up loaded “QuickTime 10060” but not an administrator.
A very intriguing clip. Text is unilinear, digital text is more flexible, hypertext can link, HTML in old days - hypertext; web, stylistic, defys content, blogging, not just text, photo, tag, we are the web, we are teaching the machine, the machine is using us, Wikipedia, rethink rhetoric’s - are some of the messages to give a clue to what it suggests.
Feedback to this video clip:
It prompts and provokes my mind as to the possibilities of the machine. The way in which text can be manipulated, so too photos, websites, email, blogging, video clips etcetera.
The composer of this clip is a class ahead of most students and access to these resources must be considered where and when education providers decide best for their students.
My Reflections – ‘Information Revolution’
Characteristics of information, it is a thing, it has a logical place - on a shelf, in a file system, in a category, it sometimes requires experts, and it is still hard to find – then there is the internet evolution, information takes on a digital form which has no fixed form, we now need to rethink information beyond material constraints – but early websites built on familiar assumptions about information, as a thing with a logistical place in a category, on a shelf –
This video clip raises the question; are we ready? Ready for information explosion and information revolution?
Feedback to this video clip:
Ho, wow! What an amazing way of information sharing. The author of the video clip certainly has an entertaining way of channelling communication and that the messages are about an explosion of information to the world web system and that this will revolutionise the way in which messages can be channelled on a WWW system; tag, blog.
My Reflections – ‘Epic 2014’
www created, amazon.com, google, blogger, Friendster, google news, gooogle mail. google earth, searchers to google grid, store, publish, msn.newsbotster, googlezon, EPIC evolving personalised information construct.
Feedback to this video clip:
So, is this the future of information sharing? Most assuredly so! Then indeed I will have to be a part of this information construct. This I understand is blogging and tagging favourites, this will ensure that I am connected with the “matrix” or rather, the larger mix of people on web.
My Reflections – ‘did you know’ (shift happns)
We are currently preparing students for jobs and technologies that don’t yet exist… in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet, “we can’t solve problems by using the some kind of thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein, ask your kids; are you doing this in school? Ask your principle: how are you helping my child become literate in the 21st Century? Ask your school board: are you providing the resources and training necessary to prepare students to be successful in 21st Century society? There are students in China, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh and the USA who remember, understand, anlyse, evaluate, communicate, collaborate, on projects everyday, ask your elected representatives: now that you know all this, what changes should be made to current education legislation, what’s your vision?
Feedback to this video clip:
Shift most certainly happens! And yes, I would like to be a part of this shift. And yes, I will be asking my principle and elected representative about what changes should be made so all our children, parent, civilian, public can benefit from this digital technology.
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