FIRST CLASS HONOURS :-)

Now the final marks are in and it has been well worth the effort. Dad in heaven, I have done you proud, I just wish you were here to come to my graduation with me!

ALL THE WAY THERE!

Wow! All done now and I can' t believe it's finished.... of course, the research will continue, but the formal submission of modules about it has come to an end.

Ill health plagued the last 3 weeks up to the deadline and even after it is passed, the chest infection and flu-like virus have not let go their grip... but now at least, I can rest and hopefully will recover soon.

... and now we wait... for our marks!

Half way marks...

It's been a while since I posted here and so much has been happening! Both at home(& abroad!) and at work, with study figuring high up there on the agenda too.

Back to work after Christmas we tried to start implementation of the new library management package but hit several stumbling blocks in the first week. The second week was then dominated by lessons supporting ICT Unit 8.3 - these are the product of previous action inquiry and have now become standard practice. They went very well and feedback has been very positive with kids saying: "we can use what we learned in the LRC for that geography homework", which is what it is ALL about! Fantastic :-)

Marks came back on the first two modules of the year. I was disappointed with the first - although it is was a very good mark, well above average, I could see I had not given myself enough time to do the best of jobs. I did do that with Exhibition Preparation though, and was very pleased to be duly rewarded with an excellent mark.

Now to keep that in mind as I do Action Inquiry & Exhibition....

HALF WAY THERE!

I can't believe we are now half way there for the final year! I just uploaded my Exhibition Preparation module which I am actually very pleased with. It reminded me a bit of my Action Inquiry module at level 1, as I found myself going through two of Kolb's experiential learning cycles. The first the research process, and the second the exhibition process. Both were valuable learning experiences with so much learning by the individual from the many, at work, in the research, from the literature and most of all from the Ultraversity community... with special mention for the 3 musketeers who have supported each other so well through this!

Now I can heave a big sigh of relief and get back to the business of Christmas - with another deadline looming, writing the cards is a big priority, which will be shortly followed by wrapping presents while the kids are still at school... that makes a matching deadline for the last post! :-S

Oh well, away I go for some sleep now to recharge the batteries in readiness for the rush!

Back on track

I am indeed on track with the second module and pleased that this involved piloting the data collection and exhibition. It is always easier to see in retrospect what you could have done better and this has provided us with that retrospective perspective... this helps us make a better job of the main event now, rather than experiencing the retrospective perspective too late!

Back to work then....

Reviewed & Planned

Well, I think that the first module of this final year is done and dusted now... and what a relief!

Now I really must get back on track with the second....

Keeping up with the times...

I am having a little trouble keeping up with my ILP as I have found myself now timetabled to deliver 12 lessons in the LRC this coming week. This has necessitated reviewing the lessons delivered last year. The Head of ICT suggested incorporating some changes and we have also come up with a new task sheet incorporating booleans AND, OR and NOT. The accompanying study skills lesson has also been reviewed by us in the LRC and new activities added to take the place of the elements we moved into the year 7 induction lessons.

The graduateness chat mentioned last post was extremely useful and a few others have followed since. I have been looking at why 'graduateness' needs to be defined and put the foundations of the discussion down to the 1992 Further & Higher Education Act that paved the way for Polytechnics to rename themselves Universities and for degrees to be awarded for more vocational subjects which had not previously been awarded graduate status.

Now to be succinct about that in the module....