Reflecting apon ITC

Upon reflection over the past three days of the ITC module I am surprised and extremely pleased with the amount of ITC knowledge that I have gained. The main skills I have developed in my ICT lessons have been to develop my own personal blog and to evaluate valid web based sources for use in academic research. Although, I have found the task of creating and developing this blog rather challenging, I have found the experience very rewarding as it is apparent that the ability to develop a blog could be a very useful tool that would enable me to develop as a teacher within the PCET setting. 

As a group we have evaluated the use of social networking as a teaching tool within the PCET setting. Thus, concluding that social networking site such as facebook and twitter have many strengths as a teaching tool, which may include utilising forums and inserting links to various valid sources associated with the learning activity. However, it was noted that as a teaching aid such tools should be used with discretion and there should be a clear divide between personal and professional social networking accounts.

Interesting Information .

Having a fascination in Criminological research and having studied it as part of my joint honours degree.  It was apparent that one of the first blogs that I should follow should be the criminology blog, on blog.co.uk.  This blog includes a wide range of contents which would make appropriate reading for anyone with an interest in Criminology. The contents include; Up to date academic research, a wide range of statistics and contemporary criminological theory.

The page is visually pleasing, easy to navigate and presents information in a clear and concise format.  The blog contained a number of gadgets that enable the easy navigation of the site. Furthermore, this blog contains extensive links to related pages.  Upon under taking a brief tour of the page it is apparent that the blog shall provide me with many interesting reading points to deliberate upon  during the course of my academic studies.

Please follow link below to navigate to this blog…

 http://criminology.blog.co.uk/

Reflective Practice

A little bit about me.

I have set up this blog as it is a requirement of the ITCE module of the PCET course I am currently undertaking. It is my intention to utilise blogger to create a reflective journal via the media of blogging.

Here is a little bit about my background and my aspirations of the PCET course. In terms of education, I graduated from Swansea University in 2009 with a joint honours degree in Psychology and Criminology. Since graduating, I have been employed with a third sector organisation.

After four years in employment with the organisation I decided that it was time for a career change. Hence, my enrollment on a PCET course at Swansea Metropolitan University. This course commenced on the 10.09.13. So far, I am very much enjoying the course and I am looking forward to gaining a wide range of new skills and developing upon exciting skills, in order to enable me to become a well rounded teacher.