Indeed fellow blog title, we learnt Pagemaker this week. It was a relief to finally get down to some nitty gritty learning work, and although the program itself is fairly simple and easy to understand, it was impossible not to feel a little bit of pride when you get the hang of it. I quickly found out it was extremely similar to Microsoft Publisher, and I used that for years when I was littller so it was like a home away from home. The familiarity came flooding back straight away. I definitely felt it was a worth while lecture not to mention very enjoyable. It was nice to be back in the software learning seat, because I love learning new software.
On the Thursday we got another chat and lecture with Helen (the Teacher Trainer Teacher) and I’ll have to be brutally honest – I didn’t get much out of it. She talked a bit about note taking, but unfortunately only showed us one actual method of note taking which was some bizarre picture mind-mapping image. Strangely, she also told us we didn’t have to take notes on the note taking lecture, as she’d printed it off for us. How poetically ironic. I came out feeling a tad disappointed, as I’d found the first one to be of some considerable use but today her lecture seemed to have no purpose to it. I found it very difficult not to feel bored either, because Helen really wasn’t engaging us in the lecture at all.
On the assignment side of things, it’s going well. I feel comfortable with what I have left to do, and I’m 100% sure of what has been asked of me for every task. When I think back to the second week when we got this assignment and how different it was then, it seems so much clearer now and so scarily long ago. I’m pleased with my work rate and how far on I am, and feel I’m exactly where I want to be.
Seeing as though I wanted to make sure everyone had each others blog addresses, I decided to take the efforts into my own hands this week and make sure I had a list of everyone’s (if you’ve not got an email yet, get in touch) blogs so I could pass them around so everyone can see what people have been saying. I thought it was time the group gelled a bit more, so this was a first step in the right direction.
Which leads me onto something else – the group. It seems as though the group gels a bit more and more every week, and this week it felt a lot closer. I was chatting to everyone, and I no longer felt closer to one group than the other. It doesn’t feel like an “us and them” situation, but there are still a couple of people I feel I need to get chatting to so next week that’s my task – talk to everybody.
It’s gone well this week overall, not just in a work sense either, but in an everyway possible sense. If it continues to feel like this every week, then I’ll be flying.
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I really agree with the comment about Helen that you've made here, I don't want to sound like i'm having a go at her but i do feel disapointed is a good word to use as you would expect to get something from these lessons.
Helen means no harm! The comment on note taking is well deserved though as that is exactly what she said! "You don't have to make notes, I have a printout for you!"
I agree about the gelling aspect too. The group seems to have come out of its shell this week a bit more. Everyone seems less scary...
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