I think I am ready to submit my website for review by my tutor. I have spent the last couple of days thoroughly editing this website so it is at a professional level but what I have found is that no matter how much I 'fix' or change there is always something more I can do. I don't know if that is the perfectionist coming out in me but I always see something else I could improve on or update. So I have come to the conclusion that I am going to keep updating my website throughout my degree espe...

The unit EDN113 - Living and Learning with Technology is coming to an end this Friday 25/05/2012 and I have been editing and polishing my website. I have recently created a new page named 'Links, software and tools' where I have listed a range of different resources for the educational minded or for students or teachers. I am preparing my website for submission and I have been working on it so it looks as professional. I was thinking if I have adequate time during the rest of my studies I wou...

I have been extremely busy of the past week with not only EDN113 but with the rest of my units for this semester. It seems that over the last two weeks I have had so many assignments due and it made me feel like I either wanted to pull my hair out or I couldn't breathe.

Tonight I have been putting a new page together on my Yola site to explain Assignment 3a - Group Project and the process I went through to complete it. Over the last week my group and I have been making huge changes through e...

We had a great lecture last Wednesday, 2nd May with Prof. Rob Phillips. His lectures are great as he lets students interact with technologies in front of the lecture theatre. We were introduced to some of The Le@rning Federations activities. We were asked what age they would be suitable for and if we liked them. I really enjoyed the 'Digestive' activity we were shown.

As for the tutorial this week, my group had a little hiccup. We explained to Jenni our concept and we asked if we were on the...

As mentioned in a previous blog post, we have now been assigned a group project task. The group and I have had two formal meetings to discuss the progress and features of our wikispace. We have basically at this point created 3 pages on our wikispace site for the topic 'Nutrition' (The food plate) which is part of the Health curriculum for primary school.

During the meeting we updated the homepage and I typed up a draft copy of our authentic resource which has to have a use of some sort of ...

I am just about to submit Assignment 2 to my tutor for assessment. Fingers crossed everything is ok. I really enjoyed this assignment as it will definitely help me with the rest of my degree. I feel confident that I have better researching skills as I know more about where to find academic information and no exactly what to look for. I now know to check how many times a document/paper has been cited as the more times it has been cited the more trustworthy it is as other professionals have eit...

I have just finished editing my 'researcher' page and document for Assignment 2. I can say that this week’s online lecture on 'referencing' especially the use of the software EndNote was beneficial to me. I was having a lot of trouble entering most online references for example, a blog, podcast etc.

On the companion website there were great, informative online tutorials which contained screen captures to show you step by step how to create references and the correct procedure to do so. I vie...

I have spent the whole day researching for Assignment 2. When I overlooked the criteria and objectives of this assignment I thought it was going to be simpler. How I was wrong.

I choose to select the topic 'Technology assisting Visual Arts in the classroom' and I have to say there was not an extensive amount of information available as for instance Mathematics, Literacy or Science. I wanted to choice a subject I was not only interested by I wanted to challenge myself. This resulted to a lot...

Last tutorial, Jenni placed us into groups (of our choice) of around four to complete the last assignment for EDN113. Assignment 3a is a 'Teacher Project' where as a group we will be choosing a topic and designing an authentic education resource for students. We need to be able to explain and teach other student teachers so they may want to use our resource in their teaching career and vice versa.

In my group I have Dani, Amy and Leah from my tutorial class. They seem like passionate, energi...

I thought the lecture from last Wednesday was really informative. I liked how Professor Rob Phillips explained 'How a computer works' and how he made the lecture really interacted by using students to demonstrate parts of the computer. Rob also explained ‘How the internet works’ in great detail with the use of visuals, videos and through a great demonstration with the use of students. He explained to us that when you connect to the internet there are 'gateways' in a couple of main cities ...

On Friday, I completed a review of a peer’s website and blog and I have to say the experience was very challenging. I enjoyed viewing both and learning a new social networking technology but I have to say it was somewhat difficult giving constructive feedback.

My peer created her social technology on Symbaloo and explained how to use this technology. She did this with the use of a virtual video using the software Jing. I had previously installed both Symbaloo and Jing onto my personal comput...

I have just checked my peer assessment for Assignment 1b via LMS. I have to say that I am extremely happy with my review. I think my assessor was fair and gave me some really great feedback and things I never thought about. Natasha (who was my reviewer) seemed to really enjoy my clear instructions and even said I had "great descriptors for YouTube". That was my main concern when creating and writing my instructions for another person. I tried to put myself in their shoes and assumed they knew...

I have spent the last week proof reading and editing my social learning page ready for my peer’s review. Hopefully my peer assessor finds my website easy to navigate and understands the written text and instructions. I am hoping all the screen captures are helpful and not too distracting. I know when I am learning something new, especially with technology I like to see visuals. I think technology is a very visual form of learning as it has to be interesting and appealing to look out for you...

I have nearly finished Part B for Assignment 1! I am feeling so proud and so great I have tackled another assignment so early in the semester. I have completed all the writing and I think visually the social learning page just needs a few tweaks here and there. I look back now and laugh at myself due to the fact I was looking far to much into this assignment. Last week during the tutorial, Jenni came around to each of us to enquiry and discuss which 'social networking' site we were thinkin...

I have spent the last week researching what I wanted to do for my 'social learning' page for Assignment 1B. I decided to set up a YouTube Channel which I found really enjoyable and interesting. Everything was really well explained step by step but I do think a lot of learning with technology is through trial and error so you become self taught. I don't feel so afraid to visit different technologies and just have a go. I am quite proficient with computers and feel comfortable using them but I ...

Ok so I have had a nightmare of a week with my 'Blog' page on this Yola site. As much as I wanted to update my blog I was unable to. When I logged in to my Yola account and selected my blog page nothing would appear on the screen it was just blank. So I tried another option by viewing my website externally and I could view my blog. I am not able to be logged on and update my blog so after a week of repetitively trying I have now created a new blog page. I have copied my previous three blogs b...

Twitter
March 2, 2012
I have just made my own 'Twitter' account and have linked it to my website. I found it extremely easy to sign/set up and use. I am already following 7 people and have one follower at the moment so please feel free to follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SarahFullard. I have also linked my Twitter posts to directly appear on my 'New's Feeds' on my Facebook account/Wall. It is wonderful! I will have to go and explore Twitter further, maybe 'Tweet' something and will...

Look what I have just found...
February 26, 2012

I just stumbled across a school picture of mine from 1990 when I was in Year 1 at Warnbro Primary School. Please check it out!!! I am in the first row, second from the right!!!

My first Blog!
Posted by Sarah Fullard on Sunday, February 26, 2012
Well this has been an exciting experience so far. It has been an easy and pleasurable experience to make a website using Yola, I don't know why I haven't created one before! It's nice to have a class with more 'hands on' activities rather then just the corpus amounts of reading you encounter commencing a new semester/subject.

I believe I am really going to enjoy this technology unit as we use it everyday in our professional a...