Post Week 1 - Mind Lab

After one week, I am still trying to get a 'handle' on getting my blog ready for my reflective pieces and tasks as well as navigating throughout the Moodle site (which I am not getting 'so lost in' anymore).  

Despite already spending time studying through the University of Waikato from July to late October this year, I'm actually finding studying again challenging!  Also challenging, is the collaborative approaches - I have done everything and relied only upon myself but now, many of the tasks require a collaborative effort...so I have to work with people, share ideas with people and complete tasks with others....a new learning curve!  But don't worry, I have a couple of awesome friends who are on this Mind Lab journey with me and they'll soon help me 'get into ship-shape'.

What I did enjoy from Week 1 was the video task our group had to complete and upload to the Moodle site...in only half and hour!  I wanted hands-on, practical, creative, innovative, informative...not stressful lol...well, learning can be stressful to some extent.  I appreciated how everyone kicked into gear and 'got their groove on' without hesitation.  The video task enabled people to show how creative and 'out-of-the-box' thinking people were capable of and the many videos uploaded last week were all different.  Last week I tweeted about how lucky I was to be surrounded by so many remarkable people, I just hope I fit in fine for the duration of the 16 weeks I have with this group.

As soon as I have time...I'm going to revamp my old blog to become my 'updated Learning and Reflection Journey' blog'.  Over the next months, I will post:

*My new learning

*My reflections about how my new learning impacts on myself, my classroom practice and my interactions with others and my learning and working space (ie the classroom)

*My 'Now What?'

*And anything else I can think of later ;)

Till next time 

PS Meet my son above :)