Susie's Lesson; 19th March

In todays lesson we spoke about the reading which had be given 2 weeks previous.  One reading was just on humour in advertsing and the other was on humour and violence in advertising.  We discussed are findings and opinions from the readings. 
Then Susie gave us a page of images, however you couldn't see all off the image in each picture.  We then had to guess what the images were of and they were of didn't logos for advertising company's, for example; Google, Tesco and Mars. 
We were then given a sheet with different company's, foundations etc on, for example Asda, Marks and Spencers food and Stella.  There was a list of words on the side of the paper and we had to link what words we thought represented the company's, foundations etc. 

Guest Lecture; 6th Feb

In this lecture we had Nick Benett.  If gave us an overview of FE (Further Education) in Wales. 
What is it for? - Underpin social justice; second chances, financial support.
Support the economy - Employed engagement, work based learning, vocational experiences, entrepreneurship. 
FE shows; Teaching and learning equal opportunity, innovation, progression, its flexible, tailored and local. 
The Welsh Gov Programme September 2011;
Improving FE and Higher Education.  It encourages; further merges of FE colleges where these provide learning opportunities and enable closer collaboration between FE and HE providers and reform governance of FE in Wales. 

Guest Lecture; 28th Feb

For this lecture we had Mike Day, he is the Cabinet Member of Education. His aims of the lecture were to talk about; What is education policy?, Who should develop it? Where is it developed?
What is education policy? - It is based upon political options, tradition and values and socio-economic objectives.
Why is it needed? - To guide operational decisions and actions, structure in the classroom.
Who should develop it? - Politicians; elected to represent people, but aren’t subject experts and practitioners; know how it works, see things from a different perspective, however are unable to take a wider view.
Where is it developed? - UK level- eg; compulsory school ages, teachers’ pay. Welsh Gov - Welsh medium, foundation phase, no academies/free schools. Local authority - Improve standards, advice and guidance to schools. School and Governing body level - Uniforms, start and finish times.

He the spoke about QED 2020. Hoping to raise standards of achievement and attainment, improve learning environment.

Suzie's Lesson; 5th March

In this lesson we spoke about adverts and how they grab your attention.  First of all Suzie started by showing us a series of different adverts, for example; car adverts, department stores and the drink Fanta.  We then went into groups and had to find to different adverts and explain a part in the advert where that was a close up shot, far away shot, very far away shot, very close up shot, What we enjoyed about the advert and Briefly describe what happens in the advert.  We chose the Cadbury advert with the gorilla and the drums.  We then had to show our findings back to the class. 
This is the advert that we chose;

I really enjoyed this lesson.  It was good to pick out the different aspects of the advert with you wouldn't even think about when watching it.

Guest Lecture; 21st Feb

For this lecture we had Graham Allen.  He is the Environmental Manager for Swansea Met Uni.  He spoke to use about Education for Sustainable Development.  He spoke about; learners having the ability to think for themselves, encouraging learners to reflect on topics, which enable them to then hav their own opinion on the topic and learning through discovery and learing that is relevant the the learners experiences.
I think that we should of had more time on this topic as it was a lot of information to take in all at once.

Suzie's Class; 20th Feb

I this session we finished off the pictures we started last lesson.  They we cut outs of magazines and they had to be related to a sense of place.  We had a corner for; bedroom, home, Wales, money and holidays.  Then we spoke back to the class about what our picture meant.  We then went on to talk about metaphors and metaphors in relation to songs.  We had to think of songs that had the use of metaphors.  Once I thought about it there are a lot of songs that have them used in.  We then finished we the famous Martin Luther King speech ' I had a dream'.  We had to write down all the metaphors that we noticed that he used throughout the speech.  I really enjoyed this lesson.

Suzie's Class; 13th Feb

In this lesson we went over the assignment for Visual Communication.  Suzie explained what we expected from us and gave us some ideas in which we could use or think about.  We now have to relate our chosen topic to a sense of place.  Originally my topic was going to be tattoos, however I couldnt think how I could relate it to a sense of place.  Now I think that I have figured it out and will to tattoos in relation to my family. 

Susies Class; 6th Feb

In this lesson we had to bring in 5 objects that meant something to us.  I decided to bring in, a dvd that I love, a star bracelet as I love it, a concert ticket, a signed album and my keys.  I brought those items in as the represented me, if somebody saw those items they'd be able to know that they were mine.  With the items we went outside the class and had to arrange them on the floor and take a photo of them.  Once we'd done that we then spoke about one specific item to the rest of the class.  I really enjoyed that lesson.   

Images For Visual Commuication

In today's seminar we learnt how emotions can be portrayed in images and pictures.  We had to think of an emotion and then go around the uni and take pictures of different objects that could portray that emotion.  I chose the emotion; confusion.  So we went around the uni taking pictures that we thought could portray that emotion, I took about 25 pictures overall and that had to narrow it down to just six.  The pictures above are the ones I thought the portrayed the emotion; confusion, the best.