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.

Glogster, christmas time

I chose to do my glogster page on Christmas for two reasons; because I enjoy Christmas and because it was near to the festive season. Glogster is a very good web programme which allows you to create a page which is visually entertaining and fun. You can include videos, links to websites, animations, and various other effects to create an interactive and stimulating glogster. In my page I incorporated a Christmas animated video of the song Rudolph the red nose reindeer, a link were you can right letters to santa, a link were you can either countdown sleeps or track were santa is around the world. Finally I added a story of Christmas from the bible. Glogster allows you to move these items around, rotate them and change the colours and styles of the text and background. I think Glogster is a good and effective programme that creates an interactive page. I focussed my page on the audience of children who still believed in santa, I believe that depending on the topic a Glogster can be ideal for people of any age. Especially children would be interested in my Glogster.