Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
SWOT
The SWOT analysis is a process that evaluates your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
Strengths:
Strengths:
- Communication skills
- Group work
- Hardworking
- Creative
- Dedicated
- Easily distracted
- Easily bored
- Nervous
- Doubtful about abilities
- Can get confused easily
- To learn new skills
- Advance in career pathways
- improve current knowledge and skills
- the chance to use new software
- to experience a new environment
- Potential travel issues
- Money issues
- Living at home
Vark
VARK stand for Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kinesthetic.
The VARK questionnaire is a set of 13 - 16 questions which aims to tell the user which learning style(s) they prefer the learn in. Once you have found out which of the learning styles suits you best you can try to adjust, the way you are taught things or the way you study things at home, to fit into the preferred learning style.
After doing the questionnaire given to us while in the lecture, I found out my scores which are;
V = 6
A = 7
R = 4
K = 6
Using these results I can see that my preferred learning style is Aural, which I am a little surprised at as its the style that involves a lot of listening, as much as I like to try to take in a lot of what is being said in lectures I often find that I get easily distracted and bored after sitting there for a while just listening.
I suppose that is why Kinesthetic and Visual are a very close second place in my learning styles, as I actually think that I learn better from being shown what to do then doing it myself over and over again a few times.
I actually went onto the VARK website to find my details of the VARK questionnaire and did the online test that is available there, the scores are quite interesting I think:
Visual: 5
Aural: 11
So after doing the online questionnaire I can still see that Aural is the best way I learn things, while the other learning styles also changes a little bit, with Visual dropping to the very bottom of the way i learn and Read/Write becoming the third most preferred style.
I found this interesting because I don't like to sit there and read things over and over again just to try to understand something better, I would rather be shown something or listen to someone talk about it, than have to read about it.
I also found out that I am something called Multimodal which is basically someone who has high scores in two or more different styles, and from looking at both sets of results this is defiantly what I would come under. I actually think this is a good thing, it means I can still learn while in different environments, be it a lecture or in a tutorial where I have to try to work out the problem on my own.
Anyway after taking both questionnaires i can see that I could improve on a couple of areas, mainly Read/Write and in some cases Visual, which would help me be an all round better learner and give me a better chance of passing my degree.
The VARK questionnaire is a set of 13 - 16 questions which aims to tell the user which learning style(s) they prefer the learn in. Once you have found out which of the learning styles suits you best you can try to adjust, the way you are taught things or the way you study things at home, to fit into the preferred learning style.
After doing the questionnaire given to us while in the lecture, I found out my scores which are;
V = 6
A = 7
R = 4
K = 6
Using these results I can see that my preferred learning style is Aural, which I am a little surprised at as its the style that involves a lot of listening, as much as I like to try to take in a lot of what is being said in lectures I often find that I get easily distracted and bored after sitting there for a while just listening.
I suppose that is why Kinesthetic and Visual are a very close second place in my learning styles, as I actually think that I learn better from being shown what to do then doing it myself over and over again a few times.
I actually went onto the VARK website to find my details of the VARK questionnaire and did the online test that is available there, the scores are quite interesting I think:
Visual: 5
Aural: 11
Read/Write: 7
Kinesthetic: 9So after doing the online questionnaire I can still see that Aural is the best way I learn things, while the other learning styles also changes a little bit, with Visual dropping to the very bottom of the way i learn and Read/Write becoming the third most preferred style.
I found this interesting because I don't like to sit there and read things over and over again just to try to understand something better, I would rather be shown something or listen to someone talk about it, than have to read about it.
I also found out that I am something called Multimodal which is basically someone who has high scores in two or more different styles, and from looking at both sets of results this is defiantly what I would come under. I actually think this is a good thing, it means I can still learn while in different environments, be it a lecture or in a tutorial where I have to try to work out the problem on my own.
Anyway after taking both questionnaires i can see that I could improve on a couple of areas, mainly Read/Write and in some cases Visual, which would help me be an all round better learner and give me a better chance of passing my degree.
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