Lesson Plans & Delivety

Well Done every one yesterday!!, a sterling pace you set for us to follow.....
I believe I have  most of my paperwork sorted . Now I have to get my timbers and tools gathered and down to Swansea for Thursday .....yipes!!!!
I will try to upload an image of my back up display, in case there is an IT failure, later on. This I plan to show on the day

Lorraine

this is my poster, with Mega help from Bethany, to my website lpsculpture.com . I currently have further sculpture at Orielcrick in Crickhowell on the edge of the Brecon Beacons www.visitcrickhowell.co.uk.

mobile technology in education (Informed opinion)

Morning all,
To get my Gut feeling out of the way I think the answer to the question posed, by the Post name, is that it would be Fab. .
 We had a wonderful  presentation by Simon Pridham author of a brand new book called "Freaked Out". My informed decision would be supported by his research and findings to start with.However this does beg the question of selling product within University, an ever present issue.
For my Degree Show 2 years ago I used a QR Code to further inform my viewing audince

Practicing QR Codes

This QR Code is a practice run for creating more links with QR Codes

Lesson plan and supporting materials

I must get back to my Project for this week coming, the delivery of a Lesson Plan (Petty G,  2009 P442-449) and the backup photos, if the computer world lets me down on the day. Print, print, print

Blues be Gone

I removed the cover of my machine and took out the Ram Drives  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ RAM_drive dusted them off , wiped the contact points with a clean cotton cloth, PRESTO, my computer is working again. There are 4 in mine, 2 original and 2 more that were put in a few months ago. The Rams are long and slim and are held in place with clips that bend back to allow removal. They CLIP back when restored to their original position. So with good advise that I trusted it was quite painless and straight forward!!! Please excuse my linking Wikipedia, but was easy and painless, and I do believe their definition at the top of the page

computer failures the Blues

I'm currently working on the inner part of my main computer with guidance from my pal in Ireland to re start  it. I will let you know how it goes. I am currently using my Samsung back up lap top. Bye for now

Lesson Plan

Wow Thanks Natalie for all your input to get us up and running for next week. I'm sure we will all do Fab, despite any nerves

Best of luck to our great group!!!!

Pinterest and its connectiions to the world

Last night I spent some time developing my Pinterest account http://uk.pinterest.com/pin/516858494709178217/. I came across a  Thatched Dog house in a garden on Long Island . I was commisionedby an architect from Oyster Bay along with two pals we created a dog house that was auctioned  for a charity. I would be very surprised if this image was not the same structure

I intend to contact all the various peopkle involved to share my joy and relive the fun we had almost 20 years ago. The image appeared on the rear cover of Fine Home Building http://www.finehomebuilding.com/ a few years later credited to Creswell and Powell, which is correct. I just tried sending a message to the cloud of Pinterest . asking for contact with the author of the photo, lets see what happens!!!!

New Apps

I learnt of spicynodes www.spicynodes.org/ 2 days ago by Adam in class. I signed up in the early hours of this morning along with Pintrest https://uk.pinterest.com. So I hope to have a grip of these by the time I stand up in front of my fellow classmates on Wednesday. These are my new Apps. so I will find out if they are from the Microsoft family ASAP

Microsoft Application

Im currently absorbing some of Powepoint's tools. Having put my Teaching model in with our group effort. This is quite good Microsoft application(AP)

Review of sculptorandsculptureblogspot.com

Background.

I like the clear background. I this allows the different subjects to be seen. There is no confusion to the presentation. The viewer can at a glance go straight to their choices.

Text& Comments

The information is very informative. However there are no references or links. The author runs through the various artists career and lives as if reading from a gallery hand out, with his own words. The delivery is clear and easy to read. The author may have missed critical points in the artist’s career (Serra, Tilted Arc). There are also some unusual uses of words, in describing an idea, in this same article. This may not be very distracting to the general viewer, but may point to a weakness in the content of the Blog’ information. http://sculptorandsculpture.blogspot.co.uk/

Layout.

The layout of this blog is easy on the eye but quite simple. The posts are distinct but some are repeated in a side menu that have no titles but share the same picture. A search bar would have been helpful but there is a concise list of categories on the left and above this there is a good list of additional blogs and resources.

Photos.

The quality of the pictures on “Sculpture and Sculpture” are very good and appear to be, on the whole, of a professional quality. Being a blog about sculpture the quality of the photography is fundamental and on this point they have been successful, the images are vibrant and engaging.

Microsoft applications!!!!

Good evening,
My experience of Microsoft applications. The first thing that comes to mind is the extraordinary building called the EMP  in Seattle Washington State US. This building was created by the moneys of Clive Allen (founding member of Microsoft). In my opinion a very good APPLICATION of the proceeds of the Microsoft.http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world-part-iii/


The building was built around the turn of the Millenium and is entirely for rock music  its heritage, experimenting and performing. Hence the name Experience Music Project.This was designed by Frank Geary,http://www.biography.com/people/frank-gehry-9308278 world Renouned Architect (Guggenheim Bilbao). At the time it cost $52Million. There was a lot of resistance localy to have this imposed on the City, but this may well have abated. Not unlike Sydney Opera House.More on Seattle and Microsoft applications 2morrow

bubble.us/ Mind mapping

Does any body know about protecting/copyright of imagesof work done?In my case sculpture. so I can find where they might be used and develope my practice with the results in mind.

It is great to be learning with such a knowledgable teacher. As time goes by I will try to absorb some of that great information. I will try to put photos on and link up with my websites. One of them lpsculpture.com. I tried doing a URL link in but it appears to be blocked!! Perhas I cant take from my self.http://www.lpsculpture.com/gallery-item/helmet/ Below is a pair of hands, Part selfie, of a comemorative piece I sculpted

ULR PRACTICE

In the past I have done quite a bit of sculpting. These can be see on my website lpsculpture.com

Hi All
At the moment we have a hp main computer with a back up laptop. there are two smart phones and several older phones around the house . These older phones are used as back up to the smart phones for numbers as I have not been able to transfer numbers, for various reasons

Hi all,
Im starting over and happily embarking on a PGCE here in South Wales, allowing for a level of panic . We have fantastic teachers who are fun. I'm surrounded by a great and diverse group of potential teachers. We all come from many diverse backgrounds, and as many different stories on the way here.