Tuesday, 17 September 2013

First day of reflection journal


First day of reflection journal

9.30 to 3.00 IT lesson with a very enthusiastic and patient lecturer. I was computer illiterate up until 3 years ago when I enrolled on to my degree course. It’s amazing how long you can get away with out learning through avoidance. Being Dyslexic I found finding my way around a whole system that uses words extremely scary as well as a lot of hard work. I have always been worried about pressing the wrong button or getting caught up or tangled in a virtual web.  Surprisingly today I found myself in the same shoes as every one else. It seems that if you don’t keep up with technology it can run away with out you.
The topic of today was social networking and how effective it could be as a tool in teaching. Examples to this would be Facebook, twitter and blogging.  I found it quit easy to transfer my skills in building my own website into starting my own blog but found that old habits do not die and just go away. My confidence in completing the task asked of me was often lost and so I needed reassurance that I was right or at least on the right track, also my spelling let me down when I typed an address, if you spell an address wrong then your never going to get there.

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