Items of Importance

In today’s lesson we were told to bring in 5 items that had some sort of significant importance to us. The items I brought in were:

·   A small stress Welsh rugby ball – due to my love of rugby and Wales;

· A figure I had from my time in Nepal – because it reminded me of happy times;

· A Map of the Gower – representing my love for the Gower;

· A Pair of odd sock – to show that I do not conform to every day issues;

· A Bottle opener – showing my love for a little drink.

We were put into small groups and discuss our objects, and then arrange them in a triangle. The whole class came around and every one looked at each others. After this any one who was curious about any could ask.  

Emotion

In today visual communication seminar we discussed different emotions. We all had different emotions we wanted to discus. The emotion I chose to discover was Enthusiasm, as I always like to be positive. We were then told to go and develop our emotion into images that we felt necessary and related to our emotion.



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Graffti Art

Im a graffti artist no room for conformists!

D Day

This is an image of the d day landings which i have used text-image.com create this picture.

Wordle

This is a wordle from my last blog!

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic' C Clarke

As I return from a hard week of placement I would like to enlighten you on the technology that is used in our primary schools today.   When I was a young lad attending my primary school in the late 90’s early 2000’s there was very little in the way of technology being used daily, one computer room for the whole school, which we used ones a week. There would be two computers to one classroom which the teacher used one, plus everything was massive all the computer screens had big bums and the towers were real towers. There would be an interactive whiteboard in each classroom but no one knew how to use it!

In today’s primary schools I was amazed to see two Macs in one classroom which the children were wizards at it. The interactive whiteboards were used by teachers constantly as well as the children participating with the whiteboard. Back in the day we would have overhead projectors to read the words for the songs but they used projectors that were linked to a computer and all the words were neatly written up on Microsoft Word. On average there were 4 computers per a classroom, which the children would constantly take turns on using. But I did see a massive plasma screen television on the wall which was never used in the week I was there. I felt that might of been a waste of £1,000 or maybe they had more technology than they needed.