SMART Targets & Following your Goal

Saleh found these images to illustrate:

• The process of following a goal, and
• SMART Targets

His blog is here

CESIT Session Standing Orders - "Sticky Post"

These are the activities that you can begin whenever we start the session or you find yourself needing inspiration for the task you are working on:

1. REVIEW YOUR PDP PROGRESS. Post on your blog to report what you've achieved, what's gone well, not so well and what you're going to do next.
2. Respond to my comments on your blog, or the comments of others.
3. Work on your current assignment tasks. TASK 3 - LEAFLET & DUMMIES' GUIDE ONGOING. ALSO UPLOAD/EMBED YOUR PRESENTATION IN YOUR BLOG.
4. Gather evidence for M2 - Review annotated draft documents (by proofreading, reviewing and improving your documents).
5. Update your SpicyNodes "CESIT So Far" NodeMap
6. Read and comment on this blog, or other students' blogs (see the sidebar on the right)

Thursday Group Presentations - URGENT

Please indicate when you will deliver your presentation on the Google document here.

Giving Feedback - Task 3 (Presentations)

D1 requires you to "evaluate interpersonal and written communications techniques". Critically observing and giving feedback on a peer's presentations can contribute to this.  Also this process can help both you and the person you observe to improve your presentation techniques.

It is important that feedback is constructive and supports a person's capacity to improve their performance. Feedback that leaves a person demoralised and unclear about what was good about their work and what they need to improve  won't have the desired effect.

There are a number of models of feedback. Three models are described here.

• SIPP - Sincere, Incident-based, Positive, Personal
• W3 - What went well, what went less well, what would you change
• SLC - Sucess, Learn, Change

Also you migh want to find out about "hamburger feedback" and Walt Disney's "plussing" or "plus it" idea of feedback.

It's a wonderful world...

“[Disneyland] is something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing, keep plussing and adding to. It’s alive. It will be a live breathing thing that will need changes. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you’re through. . . . I wanted something live, something that could grow, something I could keep plussing with ideas, you see? The park is that.” - Walt Disney

25th & 26th April CESIT Session - START HERE

Today's Aims

1 - To respond to feedback on your work so far
2 - To reinforce understandings of presentation techniques
3 - To prepare and deliver your "Barriers to Communication" presentations
4 - To learn about and offer constructive feedback
5 - To work collaboratively, on-line

Click the link HERE to get started.

Students' Top Presentation Tips

According to the GoogleDocs Poll, here,  students' rated the following tips as most important.

• Practice, practice and more practice until you are comfortable with your presentation and with your speaking voice.  
• Write your presentation, or the main points of it on a set of small cards and have them with you. Know that no matter what you may forget they are there if you need them.  
• Relax – Nervous Energy can be tapped and used as enthusiasm in your presentation.

Have #hashtags come of age politically?

Twitter is not just a celebrity stalking tool for people without a life.  Twitter is also used by politicians and activists to shape the political agenda. Of course, you could also argue that politicians and activists are also people without a life!

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