Reflective Learning

Reflective learning is a way of learning not an assessment and therefore can help my study in many ways. I relate to the article i read on reflective learning because i am constantly considering how motivated i am, how im doing so far on the course and how i can improve how i am doing. i also think about my strenghth and weanesses and how i can improve and work on my weaknesses. I think reflective learning is very useful because you can record how your prgressing through the year, look back at how your studying and if your struggling, it helps you deal with your emotions, how you feel about a course, a lecturer or anything in everyday life.

5 weeks in

I'm 5 week into the term now, the first term of the first year. This week we havn't really had an ICT lesson however our work was on moodle (a very useful site) At the moment I'm finding the work okay, working on my blog alot, developing posts, they need to contain pictures and links, appropriate titles and references to other blogs! however we do have so much support. Theres alot of group work too which i enjoy :) Theres alot of reading involved in this course and six modules to keep up with, ICT I'll admit isn't my favourite module but I'm sure that will change as the year progresses.

http://moodle.smu.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=215

The Website

We chose to research sunbeds as it is a very controversial topic. we found a page called sunbedsassociation.org. At first the website seemed rather genuine, there were many facts and it was even updated very recently (october 6 2011) all the laws and numerous amount of information seemed excellent and the website does look appealing. However on further inspection all the information and even the statistics about sunbeds given were from a source called The sunbed association... themselves. We then used site: to look into the site further and found that the website is extremelly biased and actually encouraged sunbed use claming it is the only way to get vitamin D and without this the website scares people by listing all the things that could go wrong without vitamin D. The website may look good, and on a whole is a good website, it has contact details and links, everything you would want from a good webpage, except all their information is false and one sided, and doesnt inform the reader of the risks of sunbeds such as cancer, something many adults and especially children should know.


http://www.sunbedassociation.org.uk/

Finally here.

After two years of trying to get into uni, i'm finally here! Last year i wanted to do childrens nursing and now i'm studying to become a Primary school teacher :) so far so good... i'm having a great time, enjoying my course and i've met some great people. It can only get better :)