Reflection Task 2

In this blog I am going to reflect on my learning's and feelings of Task 2. I found task 2 quite challenging as I had never experienced using Endnote or Jing before, but in saying that I enjoyed learning how to use both programs and believe I gained some valuable experience that will help me along my university career.

I have enjoyed the Peer Review part of the task and gained some very valuable constructive critism, which has enabled me to work on some flaws which I had in my website. I believe I am much better off since viewing the peer reviews.

In this weeks lecture we ran through parts of the peer review system and also the requirements of task 3. Again we are keeping the same group with Harriet, Grant and Josie, and we will be researching Maths again. Im looking forward to improving my work from task 2 in this task.

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Endnote

I have just viewed the 3 examples on how to use Endnote and now I feel much more confident with the task at hand. I downloaded Jing to capture the demonstration on how to use Endnote, and this has made it quite simple. It is a free download and a easy program to navigate through and very user friendly. We also watched one example in last weeks tutor to show us exactly what was required of us. I am now about to give it a go for myself. The video has to go for 5 minutes and has to demonstrate to our peers how to use this program.

Once I have done this I have to upload to my website, on my brand new page Task Two.

Task Two

To be honest I have found it hard to get motivated for task two, and I think I need a real kick up the butt to get back on track. After receiving my mark for Task 1 (68%) I was reasonably happy with my first up effort, and was surprised how quickly the next task snuck up on us. So the last few days has been quite a rush and quite stressful to get everything up to date.

We have been placed in groups of 4 for this task and I am grouped with Grant, Harriet and Josie. Our task is to explore technologies related to our work at university as a learner and a researcher. We have to pick a topic of choice (We chose Maths) and research how technology might be used for teaching and learning on this topic. We all need to use a different reference type, and I have found a 'Book Section' to do my research on.  

Its only a small part of a book but still gives me plenty ideas for the assignment. The part I am particular struggling with is the EndNote program, where we have to screen cast 5 minutes worth of footage to be shown to our peers.   I need to view the example which was shown in the workshop last week, to again get a few ideas of exactly what to do, but fingers crossed everything will be okay.