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From | Publish date | Expiry date | Responses | Personal Tutor (PDP) Prompt form the History Department | Penny Roberts (History) |
02 December 2004 15:06 | 01 February 2005 15:06 | 1 |
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| <p>Dear Student</p> <p>This blog prompt has been sent to you by the History Department as part of the personal tutoring system. If you are a first year student in the History Department, we would like you to respond to it in your blog. Please answer this prompt in the <span class="caps">PDP</span> (Personal Development Planning) category of your blog, as it will contribute to your next personal tutor interview. You can then use your answer for the following:</p> <ol> <li>as a basis for your discussions with your personal tutor;</li> <li>in thinking about your progress so far;</li> <li>in planning your work and priorities.</li> </ol> <p>If you want to restrict access to your response so that only your tutor may view it, there is a guide that will help you with this at the following link:</p> <p><a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/elearning/how/ht1/">http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/elearning/how/ht1/</a></p> <p>These are the questions that we would like you to consider in your response (you can just tackle those questions that are of most relevance to you or simply use them as a basis for reflection):</p> <ol> <li>How well do you feel you have managed the transition from school to<br /> university?</li> <li>How effective is your note-taking in lectures, in seminars, from books?</li> <li>Are you making best use of the resources available to you (e.g. the Library, the internet, the Learning Grid)?</li> <li>Are you adequately prepared for seminars?</li> <li>Assess your contribution to and participation in seminars.</li> <li>In what ways could you improve your time-management skills?</li> <li>Assess your strengths and weaknesses as a learner.</li> <li>What would make you a more effective student?</li> <li>How do you propose to improve your learning skills during the course of this academic year?</li> <li>What do you hope to get out of your time at university?</li> </ol> | Crime and Deviance review | () |
30 September 2004 10:11 | 30 October 2004 10:11 | 1 |
| <p>This prompt is sent to you on behalf of Mike Neary.</p> <p>First of all create a category on your blog called “Crime and Deviance”</p> <p>Then write up your review of “Crime and Deviance” into a new entry on your blog in the “Crime and Deviance” category.</p> <p>Make sure that when you write the entry you do so by clicking the “Tick” link next to this prompt in your blog in the actions column.</p> | Learning Styles (2) | Stephen Brydges () |
20 September 2004 11:32 | 20 October 2004 11:32 | 4 |
| <p>In a browser, go to the Learning Styles activity on the Warwick Skills site</p> <p><a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/cll/skills/personalacaddevelopment/learningstyles/">http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/cll/skills/personalacaddevelopment/learningstyles/</a> <br /> Do the activity (allow 20-30 minutes). On the final page you will be asked to enter the results in your own blog, with an opportunity to add your own reflections. Consider your own learning style, adding any insights gained from past experience of strengths and weaknesses in academic work as an individual and part of a collaborative group. How might your individual approach to learning affect you as a doctor in training?</p> <p>Do not forget to use the category ‘PDP’ for your response. If your earlier response on learning styles was in the ‘General’ category, please change it to ‘PDP’. (Use the ‘Admin’ link and then ‘Edit your entries’)</p> | Why should I blog? | Karen Mortimer () |
13 July 2004 16:57 | 13 August 2004 16:57 | 2 |
| <p>If someone was thinking of starting their own blog and asked you “Why should I have a blog? What will I get out of it?”, what would you tell them?</p> | An improvement | Karen Mortimer () |
13 July 2004 16:56 | 13 August 2004 16:56 | 3 |
| <p>A while ago we asked you to list five things that you would like to improve about blogs. We would now like you to identify the most important thing that you would like improved before we launch blogs at the start of term. It may be a new item or it might be an item from your previous list. Consider that a lot of new users will begin blogging at the start of term, what <strong>one</strong> thing would make life easier for them? Please describe your improvement and explain why you have chosen it.</p> | Is there anything that you find really frustrating about blogs? | Karen Mortimer () |
13 July 2004 16:55 | 13 August 2004 16:55 | 3 |
| <p>Do you wish something could be done differently? Are there any tasks that you find really awkward? Please note down two things and explain why you find them frustrating.</p> | Blog FAQs | Karen Mortimer () |
13 July 2004 16:54 | 13 August 2004 16:54 | 2 |
| <p>What do you think the most common FAQs would be for new users of blogs? List five.</p> | Marketing blogs | Karen Mortimer () |
13 July 2004 16:52 | 13 August 2004 16:52 | 4 |
| <p>If you had to market ‘blogs’ to first year students, how would you go about it? What concepts would you promote, and how would you get your message across?</p> | Five things to improve BlogBuilder | () |
25 May 2004 17:06 | 25 June 2004 17:06 | 12 |
| List the top five things that you would like to improve about BlogBuilder. Some ideas might be: <ul> <li>Some new feature.</li> <li>Making an existing feature easier to use.</li> <li>Fixing a bug that annoys you.</li> </ul> | Write a gobbet about the Mona Lisa | () |
30 April 2004 13:59 | 30 May 2004 12:59 | 0 |
| <p><img src="http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/paris/mona.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>Is it really a man?</p> | What would your ideal job be? | () |
28 April 2004 13:43 | 28 May 2004 13:43 | 2 |
| <p>If you could choose any job in the world (and you didn’t have to have the appropriate qualifications for it – they’d teach you when you started :-), what would you choose?</p> <p>What makes you think that this would be the ideal job for you? What aspects of your personality mean that you would be the ideal person for the job?</p> | What do I want? | () |
28 April 2004 13:13 | 28 April 2005 13:13 | 1 |
| <ul> <li>What do I really want to get out of my time at University</li> <li>What steps will I take to achieve these Objectives?</li> </ul> | About me | () |
28 April 2004 12:42 | 28 April 2005 12:42 | 4 |
| <p>• My life and interests (in brief!)<br /> • What inspire and motivates me<br /> • My values <br /> • Why the university is lucky to have me</p> | Why do you blog? | () |
21 April 2004 00:00 | 01 July 2004 00:00 | 0 |
| <p>Why do you blog? Write an entry explaining your reasons for blogging</p> | |||||