Friday, October 31, 2008

Streanghts and weakneses

And one more nice excercise about our strenghts and weakneses... this is always very difficult for me to point at my strong and weak sides and i think this task has opened me a little bit. I could think of the areas that I am good at and how can I use it in my life. But also has pointed at my weaknesses that I have to deal with to develop and improve.

Job experience task

The next task was to acknowledge our background job experience. We were asked to list our positions and main skills that we have learnt doing that.
Those excercises are very helpful because at the end of each task we the question 'how could it help us in the future life ' is asked, what makes us to thing about that what we want to do and what can help us to achieve our aim.

My qualifications

The next session prepared us to talk about our qualifications and courses that we have done in the past. What could help us in our future life and work and also what could be helpful to develop ourselves.
It was simple list of our qualifications but it showed in what areas we have something to say and what more should we do.

E-portfolio

At the very first lesson we also downloaded our e-portfolio where all our work will be stored.

The first tasksheet

I would like to give my reflective statement about what we have done so far.
At the very first lessons we have done some tasksheets regarding our future life and school. The first tasksheet was talking about our skills whether we feel good or bad at certain tasks and problems. The excercise asked us to point at the sections that we think should be improved as a very first. According to me one of my weakest points is ability to search the internet fast and to transfer information forming and answering questions and choosing the most appropriate material to do so.
I think my ability to deal with tasks is quite good and I don't have many problems to work under the pressure or as a team member however I don't feel a great confidence when I have to appear in front of the group.
I also think that my negotiation skills need to be improved.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

My Learning Style

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=multimodal

I did the VARK questionaire on the lesson. The results showed that I have a multimodal style. I enclosed a link to show what this type means. I agree with those results as I am a kind of person that like to learn in many various ways. I like when somebody explains me what and how should I do my tasks, but at the same time I like to try by myself and get to the point. I also learn by reading and asking questions. I like drawing and ofter make graphs or mind maps because I find it easy to practice and remember thinghs. When I have to make a speach or learn a great amount of material it's the best way to make a diagram and put just bullet points and then practice them. When somebody ask me for help I would rather explain using pictures, body language or do it myself.
I can also say that I am quite much of the physical(bodily kinesthetic) learning style because as the description shows I like to use my body language when explaining and also if I learn something new I want to use it as soon as I can.
I can also find some logical(mathematical) attempts. I am good at numbers and I try to explain everything in a logical way, even if there's no proper explanation:)
A social(interpersonal) way of tackling the problem isn't new for me . I like talk about the tasks after lessons or having one-to-one meetings with the teaachers who can explain all my questions and help tyo solve the problems. But at the same time I like to stay sometimes at home and think over what and how I want to do things.
My personality is very complex , which reflects in my learning style. I am creative with many different ideas. Always looking forrward to do new things.:)

Thursday, October 9, 2008

hallo here i am
my new and firs blog ha been created:)