Friday 3 October 08

Our first session today was with Helen Eley, about behaviour management and the School Behaviour Policy, which solved a lot of my worries :)

The rest of the day I spent it with Bridget and Neil(my mentor), observing their lessons.

Thursday 2nd October 08

Today we were shadowing year 7 and 8 students. Elizabeth, a polite and cleaver young lady from year 8, was my shadow student. I attended with her four lessons before lunch time and a lesson after lunch; History, Geography, PE, DT and Maths.

I was terrified by the behaviour of the pupils in Maths class. Consequently, The incident kept me thinking, what would I do if I was put in same situation!!!

First Block Placement (Thamesmead)

Wednesday 1st October 08

Today was the first day of training. I couldn’t sleep all last night, feeling tense about the experience!!

Early morning, i met Curricular Mentors training (Emma) who introduced us to Training School Manager (Helen Aley). Also had the joy to meet 5 other trainees; James who is from Brunel, Carol Anne, Claire, Robecca and Emma who are from different universities, but i cant recall.

Later during that day we had a tour around the school with Emma, then each one of us had different programs. I personally had to meet my mentor (Neil King) who was sadly ill that day. Instead i met his colleague, a very friendly and lovely lady (Bridget Oakes). We had a chat, showed me IT resources as well as student work.

In general, I was pleased also relieved :)

Macro and excel presentation topics

Excel Uses:
Creating lists
Write more uses…..
Robot making http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=1352

Getting help:
From the task pane
Online help which will connect to the Microsoft server, but it is a bit slow
You can switch to off line help, and search will be done faster. But the downside is that the online is always up to date, and might have articles and new answers that is not stalled in your computer.

Importing and exporting data
Import from web
Import from word
Exporting data

Contextual help
Format, cells, then from the help button, you can get specific help relating to that dialogue box you looking at.

Working with advanced functions:
If, time and date, lookup

Text concatenation
Using macros in excel (recording, deleting, ways of uses)

Printing of excel:
Show pupils how economize the use of paper
Printing and hiding data

Today Tuesday 23 September 08

Actually, today I feel a bit happy about my self. P

You might be laughing at me but, I managed to re open google account, started this blog after struggling to remember the password!!!

What to do list:
Portfolio site
Think of a good layout for the portfolio site
Contents that should go on it
Design of the site
Which software to use

Look at:
Professional Mind Mapping software
http://www.matchware.com/en/products/openmind/default.htm
Exe learning software
http://www.exelearning.org/
Jing for recording
http://www.jingproject.com/
Start on writing observation report
Prepare questions for Mr Cooksey!!!!!


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