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Saturday 4 February 2012

Entry 7 - Dr. Russel Grigg

Dr Russell Grigg, the Head of South West Wales Centre of Teacher Education gave a fantastic speech. He discussed heavily about Estyn - Estyn is the education and training inspectorate for Wales. He told us what Estyn do, his involvement, and he showed us examples of different reports and inspections.

Friday 3 February 2012

Entry 6 - Toy! (Part 1)

Task: You are required to design and make a toy.

I have decided to use this blog as a log for my ideas on making my toy.
So an educational toy, which has to hold a purpose.

Things to concider;

- Shape
-Colour
-Numeracy
- Alphabet
- Time
- Animals

Initial ideas;

-Wooden activity box
-Puzzle
- Clock
-Jack in the box
- Puppet theatre
- Doll house
- Shape Sorting Cow
- Stacking cubes
- Wooden Stacking and Counting Game

More research!

Entry 5 - Tagxedo

The purpose of this seminar was to show how pictures can be used to represent words, and how we can be creative with it. Tagxedo is a very easy to use site which allows this.

I have created a star with the most used words on my blog. :D

A beautiful way to express yourself!