Evolution!

Following from my last blog we are still trekking through our wik! The group and I have evolved our wiki into a paradise for learners (who wish to explore education 10 years ago). We have recently revamped our wiki with slick videos and fancy pictures! I feel we worked well as a group as we gave each over individual subjects to talk about. We then took total control of our pages and added pictures and videos which we feel fit well into our subject! Overall i am pleased with our wiki and hope for it to grow over the future! If you wish to view our wiki (and please do) click the link the last blog!     

Home again!

As we arrive back after a stressful research week, we begin to reflect on the week gone by. But how much does a student really do on a research/reading week? From a personal point of view I tried to attack all my pieces of work, but it’s so tempting to leave it to next week, ‘it won’t take that long do it the night before’. But that can be dangerous, it can put you under a lot of stress and lead to a lack of sleep which will affect you in the day ahead.


For my vis com module we were given a task to create a free wiki on the subject of ‘What was education like 10 years ago’. As a group we decided to write on individual topics. We started the wiki by creating a folder, having a front page then individual pages which you can navigate from the front page. But as it happens so many time when working in a group there was a lack of communication, this ended up in two of us writing on the same topic! But we overcame this by talking/arguing over who was doing what. We overcome it and I’m happily able to say we have a successful wiki! If you wish to view please click the link below.
Our wiki!

The Reflection of Thinking!

Jaws!

In last weeks seminar we were given a group task to investigate a subject that we all found relatively interesting, then present the webpage to the class. We decided to look up the fascinating life of the shark! We decided to look at separate web pages, that way we will have a wider range of options to pick from. We eventually went for enchantedlearning.com/subjects/sharks/. We went for this website because it looked a bit dodgy in places, the illustrations looked very childlike, as if some one had created them on Microsoft Paint. But as we dived a bit deeper using ‘site:’ and our investigative minds we found out the side was very much legit, only that the site was created in 1998 and looked as no one had touched it since. Another interesting fact is that the copy write of the website finished in 2010 so the information is free to take haha!                
Click here to view the site