Saturday 27 September 2008

Closure 27/09/08 - Conclusions

Over all I really enjoyed the first session, especially the first half. The Ice Breaker activity was really engaging. It was also important to set our own ground rules with was also done in an interactive way between the group, getting us to communicate and discuss the rules together in agreement.

The second half of the session was a bit of an overload. There was so many hand outs and information to take in from the projector. This made everything a little unclear as to what the course was about and what was expected from us the candidates. However it was all part of an intro session so everything needed to be in brief to give you a synopsis of whats going to be happening. It was all working well until the overload rush that seen to be cramming as much information as possible in the last half an hour.

Ice Breakers

Looking at other Ice Breaker ideas

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_76.htm

http://www.worldsbesticebreakergames.com/

http://www.mwls.co.uk/icebreak.htm

http://www.jobs4youthwork.co.uk/rsc/icebreakers.htm

http://trainingpd.suite101.com/article.cfm/ice_breakers_for_large_groups

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-61332_ITM

Ground Rules

The decided rules were as follows:

Entry 27.09.08 - Reflection

Opening entrance:
First thoughts.

Sorry for being late the first session. I'm not a person who is usually late and I normally roll my eyes to people who are. So my first reaction was, I'm one of those annoying people who turn up late, looking like their not interested and disrupting the lesson. I also thought I would instantly stand out and be singled out and made an example of. In this case I was welcomed in and felt settled straight away.


Ice Breaker Activity:

The first activity was really effective to get to know your peers. It was a series of obscure questions you had to find people to answer. I found it a relly interesting way to get talking to people in a way outside the usual "Hi, I'm Tom, and I work as..." This way everyone was talking about the most random stories and experiences. Also the questions were already there so people didn't have to sit down and come up with there own random questions. With the set questions it help finding what some people have in common with each other, or equally how different someone can be. 

The questions and Answers I got are as follows:

Q1. Has a Pet Dog?
A.   Marie's Dog is called Gem and it's a springer spaniel.

Q2. Lived abroad for more than a year?
A.    Vikki lived in America and Germany for 4 years.

Q3. Is a Vegetarian?
A.    Sandra is but eats fish.

Q4. Is a Grandparent?
A.   Helen is a grand parent through marriage.

Q5. Plays musical instrument?
A.   Laura plays the drums and Ben plays the Keyboard.

Q6. Is part of a sports team?
A.    -

Q7. Been to the cinema in the last week?
A.   Sue March went to see Momma Mia in Chesterfield for £5.

Q8. Regularly reads a Sunday newspaper?
A.    Clarissa reads the telegraph.

Q9. Owns and regularly uses an MP3 player?
A.   Rachael was listening to Cold play and Abba on her iPod Nano.

Q10. Has a half term Holiday booked?
A.      Lindsey has it just booked off work at the moment.

Q11. Has an unusual hobby?
A.     Adrian does fire Poi (spins fire on a rope)

Q12. Orders from Tesco / Asda / Sainsbury's for weekly shopping?
A.     -



I really enjoyed it and would like to find some more interesting and original Ice breakers.


Ground Rules:

Setting the ground rules ourselves is also an important part of the sessions. I think you respect rules alot more when they are your expectations, also other people who imput to the ground rules will also police them, so theres less pressure on the lecture. My rule was Puntuallity, ironicly. But now I've set the rule of punctuallity I would feel the biggest hypocrite to turn up late now.

Learner Goals:


Friday 26 September 2008

Idea of subjects

Before I start the PTTLS course I had thought what I might be able to teach. I trained in Multimedia for years so have bits of experience in a very wide variety of Medias. But I don't really feel confident to teach any. I think this is more the confidence of teaching to people in general, I've never really enjoyed standing up in presentations and usually rely on pretty graphics so distract people from the focus on me. Obviously at some point in teaching I the focus will be on me for the majority of every session.

The subjects I would like to teach I have picked out for the simple reason, that I'm more passionate about teaching them, so feel naturally enthusiastic to tell people everything I know about the subject. I feel competent in teaching Photoshop, or Video editing and directing. I also love getting people to idea generate, that comes in most subjects. Teaching people to Blog and the importance and advantages of Blogging (watch this space!). I'd also though about teaching some kind of expressive art, which would be a huge challenge for the lesson planning, so might leave that till after I've practiced teaching a program?

My Basic background

MMD

Thursday 25 September 2008

What I hope to achieve?

Why did I want to enroll onto PTTLS in the first place?