Bubbleus , Reflective practice

Before the lecture I had never seen or heard of the programme bubbleus before but I think it is really important for people in higher education when doing mind maps. It looks professional and neat. Bubbleus allows you to change the colours, the text, the shapes and position of the bubbles to accommodate your taste and need. I done my bubbleus on reflective practice as required, I think that the bubbleus application is perfect for this topic as you can have headings and sub heading and still branch off these. This allows thoughts and ideas to be organised and easy to read for others viewing the bubbleus. I think the application is simple to use and easy to understand.

Blog Review

For my Blog review I have chosen to pick  New Approach. I like this blog compare to others as it uses a lot of applications and animations to make it more interesting. The blog is also updated on a regular basis and is well written and interesting. The blog focusses on the importance of technology when influencing education. The blog brings very important points and holds a lot of evidence to support their views and idea. I think that the blog is to a professional level as the posts vary design, technique and application like others I have looked at. Other blogs do not focus on one topic all the time although I do like the fact that this blog does as the posts do not get boring. The keep you interesting by including different aspects of technology and the effect they believe they have on education. It is a good way to introduce somebody to using a blog as it holds many ideas that somebody could use in their blog in their own topic. I think this blog is fantastic as you can see a lot of time and effort has been put into the outcome.

Instagram

Instagram is a popular application available on most smart phones. People use it to share images and short videos of themselves and their friends. They can share this video with any people that follow them. The user of instagram can also choose to follow celebrities and other people they look up to as there is no friend requests unless a person is private. The positives of instagram is that there is no verbal contact other than comments on picture, another positive is you can block people from following you and make your images private. Another positive to insagram is that you can post the photo to various social media sites as long as you are linked when uploading any photo.The negatives of instagram are that it makes people more obsessed about image, how people look and what they wear. It means people can become more obsessed with certain celebrities and the media, it also means that people you don't really know you can access your pictures unless you choose to be private. This all aside instagram is a good social network site with a highly rated popularity.

Ted Talk

The Ted Talk website was new to me before it was introduced in a lecture. I watched many videos before finally deciding on a video that related both to my course and to the exact module. The video also interested me a lot and I found myself watching it more than once to fully understand the concepts. The video shows education around the world in more third world countries such as Africa. Charles talks about the idea of still having schools and being able to be educated in the slums although this isn't always the case due to the need for children to help earn money rather than spend it on schools. No schools within the area that he visited were free, they were all private schools. The video seemed very personal and on an informal level as it contained pictures of people he had met, he introduced them using their names and their stories in order to prove him point. The main point of the video was to show how third world countries are educated. There were many variations within the school there and in the UK. The schools had bare minimal resources, the classrooms were not colourful and spacious but wooden and bare. Some schools were run by parents others by nuns and some by educated teaching professionals. Most schools shown were in the middle of slums. The similarity between all educators and schools was the desire to use technology to aid learning. Although other materials were limited they tried to incorporate the use of technology to expand the education they gave the children and to open their minds to the world outside there slum. This seemed to be effective as children were staying in school longer as they were more interested and parents felt as though the education they were receiving was necessary for them to achieve more in life. This meant children were staying in school for longer rather than leaving and helping to create more income. Each year a child stays in education approximately their yearly income is increased by ten percent. I believe the information in this video is valid for the development not only of the child's intelligence but of the development of many third world countries.

Ted Talks: Charles Leadbeater, Education innovation in the slums

Life Story

 

Movie Maker

 When creating my life movie I used windows movie maker which I downloaded offline. Once the system had fully downloaded and was set up the programme turned out to be in German. This added difficulty to my task as I do not speak German. I used my initiative and most as pretty simple as words were placed with pictures. I also used google translate to help me, the programmer over all was very good and allowed me to make all the changes I wanted to my images to create the video. I incorporated my own images of family and friends. I wanted to use the images in an effective way so that I could show the circle of life from being born through to death. I think my video holds a lot of emotion especially for me as it is such a personal video. The song choice I feel very important to set the mood for the video. The music fitted well with the photo changes and it was a very emotional song. I am satisfied with my work.