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Week 2 Lecture

A little more comfy with my blog this week. Have figured out how to keep my same font, thanks again Kat we do need to clone you a couple of times over. I am going to attempt to link a few things this week; I don't know what it might be however I will think on that! Wordle might be the go............

see ya

I wordled........................about Danyellah!

It is Saturday and I still feeling very poorly! How do some of these people do it when they feel like crap? Anyway will have to try & get something done. I signed up for Prezi before the bloody cold really set in and that was as far as I got. Need nurofen + and lots of it; that will help!

Okidoki back again feeling like I can take on the world with all this Nurofen.............my hubby was an instructor in Karate & he would always say " make pain your friend"! Hah, not me I will use Nurofen thanks. 

I tried to follow some blogs before and could not work out how to add. With the help of Nurofen I have successfully added bloggers to follow! Follow not stalk.............now to begin my journey back to study! 

Thought I would share..................................I am working on Expert Group 2 for Global Science & I used the snipping tool. What a fantastic little gadget! I can see this small but wonderful little gadget being used in the classroom especially when the kidlings might be constructing an assignment. I could make that my new best friend. 

TPCK!!!!
Ok I am reading through this TPCK document & I  must say........................it is doing my head in! From what I can gather and please anybody give me some insight into it, it's about teachers having the skills, understanding, knowledge and the right attitude to integrate technologies into their teaching of content; and allowing for the dramatic and ever changing new advances in technology. Whoopsa have to go and pick up the kidlinks!!!

Bloom's Taxonomy!

Ok! I am sitting here trying to digest all the information I just read into my head. I am going to use the constructivist approach and "mish & mash" it all up into one big ball of info. Now the way I see it and I am quite worldly with working etc is that you have the three domains: Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor (psycho; that's me at the moment)! In normal peoples speak that is Knowledge, Attitude & Skills. We function in this way daily however we don't often assign the "intelligent" names to this way of functioning because we don't know which names they are; did I make some sense to that???. When I was reading through Bloom's Taxonomy I was quite surprised because we all have and exhibit/exercise those three core domains. Before deciding to embark on my learning journey I was one of the managers who worked for Kmart. Now a lot of you out there probably think "wow what an easy job". Far from it!!!! When I look at those domains I had to have the Knowledge, Attitude & Skills to perform effectively in my role from building my rosters for six weeks to planning a toy sale in July and to running the store on the weekends. 

I had a band of staff so my attitude to the way things were done and prioritising were always on show. My skills were built over 23yrs of blood, sweat and tears (literally) and there was always room for improvement especially with the advancements in technology (we used to hand write our rosters then we did them on the computers).

Hopefully I haven't bored you all to death with my rambling. I am still digesting the information and probably will for a while. Once I work a way to work things (TPCK & Bloom's Taxonomy) I think I will feel a little more at ease. 

Mobile Phones:

Contributing to the wiki was I must say an ok experience. Using the six thinking hats by De Bono allowed for a structured easy way to participate. Loved it; thank you! You can see what other members have added using it as a check on your own understanding on a topic. The six thinking hats are going to be my new friend because they allow for "thinking" that may not naturally occur; I am talking from experience. I am a very black hat type of person! I look for negatives and what ifs first. However I did manage to add to the other colored hats because it was presented to me in that way. I still believe there is no place for mobile phones in the classroom! Not with all the technology already provided within a classroom environment.