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- Sarah
- I am plain spoken and say what I see, this gets me into a lot of trouble, I am kind and generous beyond normal sometimes and care deeply about my environment and world, my two sons keep me busy and focused most of the time and I have a very busy social network filled with some of the most amazing people possible. I am a student who wishes to teach other adults one day and hope to be successful in transforming individuals one at a time. I am a bahai and a very spiritual being.
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Micro teaching: Change Blindness.
Slideshare is a fantastic application for sharing resources, and gaining information.
First before I could write about my lesson I needed to work out how to get my power point slides upon my blog. I found this website which enables you to upload your power point. It was easy to use and upload but I had an issue trying to work out how to get the power point to show upon my blog rather than just the embedded code. Slide share is a fantastic tool but it does have it's draw backs, once you have uploaded your power point you have let go of your intellectual rights on it. This means anyone can access and use your work in future, now I am not big headed enough to think I am so clever I don't want to share unless for a benefit, but it does mean your work is no longer your own and that I may disagree with. I have posted the webpage I found which taught me how to upload my power point. I think this may be useful to myself and others in teaching.
Now onto my lesson.
I have a passion and love for Psychology. I decided my lesson plan would be based around trying to teach others why psychology is important. The phenomena of change blindness is fascinating and I knew it would engage my class fully. I have posted a quick you tube clip of this below.
I found this website very useful as a starting basis for my research.
It is important for research to be performed upon such an area so to enhance the understanding of where it may have practical implications. It would have great importance in the class or lecture room, especially for trainees who are trying to take in a lot of new information at the same time.
My lesson went well, I was nervous and felt I spoke very fast to start with, but I soon fell into a good place when I trusted I knew my subject and that others would enjoy my lesson. I had planned the lesson and had a range activities for everyone to engage with. After an explanation of what psychologists do we did some experiments. I think everyone enjoyed, I know I did.
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Thanks for the link Sarah - I've had a draft post about my micro teach sitting in my to do list for ages. I can finally pop a link in now. Loved your lesson, as you already know - some great ideas that I fully intend to steal!
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