Lexie Turner

Final Blog!

May 25, 2012

Every time I thought I had finished assignment 3b but I would think of something else to put in to maybe bump my marks up. Luckily I didn’t submit it the first time that I thought I was finished otherwise half of the information that I have included wouldn’t be there.

Today is my last day of Uni for semester 1. Assignment 3b is my last assignment for the semester and I’m overly keen to submit it.

In the YouTube video that was shown in class today that Jenni made as an overview of the assignment 3b rubric it said each person needs at least 8-10 blogs from the past 4 weeks, which means at least two a week. I try to do one long blog each week as I find that I don’t have much to talk about if I do two short blogs each week. Most of my blogs I find sums up my entire week of EDN113 especially my feelings and attitudes towards them. The video that Jenni made was superb. It helped me an incredible amount and as went through each section of the rubric I went over my website again to ensure I had done it to a high distinction degree. I believe a majority of my website is of excellent standard.

Through making this website I have learnt a lot about technology. At the beginning of this unit I wasn’t confident at all about technology, besides word documents and facebook. But this unit has shown me not only how to create my own website but how to use taste.com, diigo and how to upload a video onto YouTube. It really has been a learning curve for me and I am extremely appreciative of Helen being a great teacher and successfully teaching me these skills that I will definitely use for future references. Especially when I graduate from uni and become a teacher.

Well, this is my final blog. Huge thanks to Helen and the lecturers.

Now to face the exam!!

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Semester 1 comes to an end.

May 23, 2012

It seems like it has come so fast, this week is my last week of my first semester. Only 3 and ½ years to go! If the next 3 and ½ years go this fast, I’ll be extremely pleased. I’m just about to do my final touches of my personal website and add my reference page. Luckily most of the things I need to reference, I have hyperlinked because at this moment I have referenced absolutely nothing. I didn’t know that we had to include a reference tab until the lecture on Tuesday morning. So tha...

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Resource Mayhem

May 18, 2012

This assignment was a challenge that’s for sure and certain. It was so hard to get our group together and organise it. Doa’a and I have done a majority of the work to be completely honest. Qian was only available once and Hannah wasn’t available at all.

On Wednesday we had a group session where Qian, Doa’a and I met at the library to sort out the resource. We had all done the sections we were allocated in the previous workshop besides Hannah. We had to wait for Hannah to email us he...

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Group Work.

May 15, 2012

Thank god everyone got an extension on this second last assignment. We have finally gotten back into on campus classes. That has helped a lot being able to catch up with the entire group at the same time. In our group we have Doa’a El-Youseff, Hannah Oxwell , Quin Yu and I. We didn’t know who one of the girls was that was a part of our group, Quin Yu. She didn’t come to the first on campus class we had after the couple of online tutes because she had a skin allergy but thankfully she ar...

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Thanks to Helen

April 26, 2012

Phew, finally after liaising with Helen, my tute, I have completed my assignment. I’m so glad to have a great tutor. So that was my strategy this time after looking at the example and the discussion forum I chose to communicate with Helen to clarify a few aspects of the assignment. I realise that I was completely over analysing what we had to do and in reality I was thinking it was harder than what it really was. Once I had overcome that and spoke to Helen I felt like I had completed it to ...

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one assignment down, only to face another

April 24, 2012

This assignment was probably the hardest assignment so far. Endnote was a little confusing and hard to use. It made it even harder with the fact that we had online lectures and tutes for two weeks so we could not see out tutor in class, instead we had to attempt to contact them via email or the discussion forum. It took a while for me to get hold of my tute Helen because at first I wrote in the wrong email address and was waiting for an email back from someone I didn’t even send the email...

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End Note

April 17, 2012

Just to add to the previous blog I just uploaded, I have attempted to install EndNote twice now and I cant seem to get it to pop up in my word document where I have noticed it belongs on the uni computers. I have a different type of referencing material on my word already but I'm unsure if its the same as EndNote. I must find that one out ASAP!

Until next week,
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Where I'm at.

April 17, 2012

I have just viewed my result for assignment 1b, thanks to the announcement made by Jan on LMS about how to access it. I am actually really impressed, I don’t think I could have got the mark I did if it wasn’t for the help I got from the companion website and my peers. Due to getting a short and an ill described peer review from my ‘peer reviewer’ I got one of my peers from our tutorial class to review it for me and tell me what to improve rather than attempting to guess myself. I thin...

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Social Resource done and submitted, yahoo

March 29, 2012

Last week I got my review back from my selected reviewer. It didn’t help me all the much. I was quite disappointed by the quality of it. I barely got much feedback at all.

The review I sent back to the person I was reviewing was extremely honest and constructive. Every bit I found confusing or what was missing and didn’t match the high distinction profile in the rubric I mentioned. However, my reviewer selected pass or credit for a majority of the boxes in the rubric but didn’t rectif...

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Grammer and Spelling

March 21, 2012

I'm extremely sorry, I do apologise for my horrible grammar and spelling to anyone reading my blogs. Once I get started writing my blogs I get so into it that my finger type at one hundred miles an hour and I get so eager to post it that I forget to check and realise that I can’t edit it once I’ve submitted it. Sorry again!
:)

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