Voki

Voki is a wonderfully fun website that allows anyone to create and customise their own talking "Avatar". This site would be very useful for any teacher looking for a new way to help teach their children, as it will provide them with a completely different style of learning which will be fun and interactive. Voki allows anyone to create these "Avatars" and share them with everyone allowing for a fantastically interactive way of learning as it will allow children to explore their classmates' "Avatars". Obviously sharing these on the internet may not be suitable for children in primary school age but can be done in secondary school. It can be used to help children learn as all the teacher has to do is type in what he/she wants to say and the Avatar will say it. How will this help them to learn? Well it's completely different to any other way children would have learnt before, it's completely new to them and it breaks up the lesson to something a bit more fun which is imperative to children’s learning. If you look at one of my recent blogs called Nativity Sonnet, that’s created with Voki. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX05alxaTPo

Twitter, the same as the rest ? Or different ?

For many people these days Twitter is seen as a way to get away from the controversy surrounding Facebook. But is Twitter really that different from the rest? From personal experience of having accounts on both Facebook and Twitter I have always used Twitter more than any other social site, but why is this? There are many advantages of Twitter, one of them being that it is seen to be a more opinion based site, where people can express their views on any topic they wish and people will tweet back what their opinions on the subject is. However, this is not always a good thing as many people have very strong opinions and this can lead to heated debates between people which sometimes ends up with strong language and occasionally abuse towards each other, although such occasions are rare. The main advantage about twitter is that it is more interactive than most other social networks, as many celebrities are on Twitter and people are able to tweet them and on occasions the celebrities will tweet back or retweet them. Overall Twitter is a lot different and lets hope it stays that way.

Nativity Sonet

Proccess of Reflection

Photo video tester !


This was a test video as i am trying to get used to windows movie maker as i  will need to use this for my task in uni. It's basically a photo video of my first day in uni, there are 7 photos within it poniting out what we got up to on our first day.

What annoys me? Soap operas that’s what!

Soap operas are the most annoying things on TV ever! This is no exaggeration, and there are many reasons why they are so annoying.  The first is that they are on almost every day of the week.  The story lines are the most ridiculous story lines ever, as every time I hear people talk about them there’s either someone being killed or someone having an argument. Also people know before they watch the episode that a certain person will be killed in the show as they have either read it in a magazine or someone has seen it on the Internet.  All the soap operas are the same they all follow the same storyline basically.

 

Introduction

My name is Matthew Cude, I'm currently studying education studies in Swansea Metropolitan university. Throughout my first two years in college i never really had any intention of going to university once i had finished my course.

However, when i repeated my second year in college (failed year 2 first time round) i decided that going to university was the best option that i could take, as i only had a part-time job so not many hours. Also a friend of mine had already begun the education studies course and he told me about the course and it sounded like something i wanted to do. I originally applied for a course in Cardiff studying police sciences, however i realised that this course was not what i wanted to at the minute and so applied for the BA Hons Education Studies course and was accepted through clearing.

A major factor in why i wanted to do this course as well was that i currently coach a football team in my local area. By doing this coaching and enjoying it so much, it made me realise that going into teaching as a profession was something that interested me a lot.