IRE - 16/10/12

This is the last day of teaching and next lesson will be the power point presentation. Today started with a power point presentation on Influence this will help me to understand how I can present my presentation on next day.

I start to create my power point presentation about abstract expressionism.Through the presentation I can Understand about abstract expressionism. I did research on internet about it , I found that it was a post world war 2 art movement creating art in a abstract style.

IRE- 9/10/12

Today started with more into Reflective Learning Journal and some RLJ exercise.Neil gave us sheet ,In that some questions about RLJ. I want to understand more about Reflective Learning Journal. I did understand little bit more after I answer the questions.
                                                Neil showed us some old reflective learning journals and we have to describe about it its a group exercise  so our group got a new media journal , a blog that printed, It is not that good but the blog saying about everyday what he did and not showing more study's out side the class.My aim is to do better journals on future. I want get experience on writing the reflective learning journal.
 After the group exercise Neil start to gave us some tips on our power point presentation.I am selected as No. 2 on presenting , My subject was Abstract expressionism

http://www.peicpt.com/sitefiles/File/Portfolio/LearningJournal.pdf

This is a link that showing How can I start to write a Reflective Learning Journal

IRE - 2/10/12

Class started with lesson on academic writing.Neil start to talk about academic writing I know that for a degree level course need academic writing, Neil showed us a pdf file in moodle that can help with academic writing. I know that for this level course I have to improve my writing on academic level.
                            http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/featfram.htm
In this web site I found more information on academic writing. I think it will help me on my writing, I want to research more in to this and I would like to see some examples of academic writing.

After an introduction to academic writing Neil moved to Essay writing ,different type of essays and its structure. First Neil ask to students what is essay ? From the answers I understand that essays are lots of word and writing on different subjects , description, documentation, information,debate.In class Neil described about it, I understand that there are many type of essays and writings. Some of them are case study, reflection. all these are writing in different style. I understand that essays are writing in a order or structure, Introduction - main body-conclusion.
 After that we start to looking at Harvard Referencing. For more understanding on Harvard referencing Neil gave us some questions to answer and added a file to moodle this will help me.

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/support_depts/infoservices/learning_support/refzone/harvard/index.jsp

This link will helpful on Harvard Referencing