Reflection

So, in my last lesson we mind-mapped as a class and in small groups, what we thought reflective learning is. After we had collaborated our ideas, we went to the site bubbl.us, (which I highly recommend by the way, if you're doing any presentations), and created a kind of interactive mind map online, we then posted our mind maps to our blogs, as you can see in my previous post.

After we'd completed our mind maps and uploaded them to our blogs, we went on to search the internet for blogs related to education that were interesting AND useful. We then added a widget called "My blog list" to share the blogs we'd found with our "followers" or general blog viewers, so they too could view the incredible talents we'd unmasked. I'm not sure exactly how useful my blogs will be to the course, but I'm aiming to keep updating my list with more blogs as I go along.

On a side note, it's halloween on monday, so here are some costume ideas that I fell in love with this week.

What is Reflective Learning?

The Process of Webpage Evaluating.

So, when it comes to writing an essay or doing an assignment, we'll all have to carry out research in libraries, and online. But how can we be sure the sites we're using are genuine?
This is a topic we looked into during an ICT class in University. Over the course of an hour small groups of us had to choose a website, and then check the validity of that website and present it to the class. We chose to use Sign Language websites to carry out our investigation, and specifically we used two websites:

• British-Sign.co.uk

and

  

• Signpostbsl.com

One technique we used to check the validity of the sites was site colon. By applying a site colon search in google we could ensure that the links within the website only lead back to itself or to related sites with an equivalent reputation, and related subject.
Both of these websites proved to be authentic as far as this was concerned.
However, we began to question the authenticity of the SignPost BSL website because of the "apparent" relation to ITV. Under further investigation, through the official ITV website we were able to establish a distant relation between the two websites which satisfied any concerns we had towards the authenticity.
We also used Easy Who Is to determine who owned the website which also helped to validate the authenticity.
The final step to checking the validity of the website was to try and determine when the site was last updated. Britsh-Sign was updated in late 2010, where as SignPost BSL was updated in 2006.

Hello, I'm Lydia. I'm 19 years old and studying Education Studies in Swansea, with the aim of becoming a primary school teacher. I'm staying in a private house with 5 other students of Swansea and Swansea Met Universities and I love them all.

In my spare time I cycle a lot, and before moving down to Swansea I was a figure skater. Moving here unfortunately meant I had to stop skating, but it's nice to have a break from getting up at 5 in the morning every Sunday to get to the ice rink.

Apart from cycling and ice skating I also spend a lot of time listening to music as well as playing it on the piano. My favourite genre is Indie and for my last birthday my friend Tom tracked down the latest album of an Indie band called "Lydia". 

Another of my hobbies is travelling and I have recently spent the last few Summers in America, specifically, Phillidelphia, New York, Washington and Florida. I spend a lot of this time taking advantage of my one-off photography course, and spend all my time snapping pictures of EVERYTHING.