PLTS Designs lesson 2

PLTS Designs Lesson 2

For this lesson, I tried to word the Learning Objectives and Outcomes in language that was more approachable for the FE Students.


Aims of the lesson.


To develop your understanding of creative imagery


To help you identify where you may have used Creative Thinking skills so far in the course.


Tasks


1) Develop initial design ideas for your 'Digital Post-it' for the Independent Enquirer category of the PLTS.(15 mins)


To insert your Creative Thinker 'Digital Post-it' into your blogs in as many places as you can where you can show that you` ve used that skill.(15-20 mins)


Independent Enquirer



Work out what questions to ask to answer a problem


Plan and carry out research, understanding what my decisions might lead to


Look at situations, issues and problems in lots of different ways


Review the information I have to see if it is useful or important


Understand how different people` s views or unplanned events may alter my plans


Back up my conclusions with reasoned arguments and evidence

For this lesson, I created a starter, using image cards and getting the students to work as a Team to match the images into which category of the PLTS they thought it represented.

These were the images I found for the cards. See which category you think each one represents...


The 6 PLTS Categories


Independent Enquirer


Creative Thinker


Reflective Learner


Team Worker


Self Manager


Effective Participator





















It was really interesting to see how different students thought of the images differently.
The point of the exercise was that Creative Images mean different things to different people, there are no right or wrong answers with creative representation. I used this to give the students confidence to experiment in their own designs. I also wanted to show them the connections between the different plt skills: the similarities and differences between the different skills and how for some of them you need the others to be able to apply them.

After this starter, the students worked on their designs for their Independent Enquirer' PLTS Post It. Then, as a mini plenary, we discussed their ideas. I then talked them through how to upload their Post Its onto their Blogs. For the 2nd half of the lesson, their task was to find somewhere where they had written about using their 'Creative Thinking' skills in their Blogs and insert their 'Creative Thinker Digital Post it Design' in their blogs in this place.

How to insert your Digital 'Post its' into your Blog.



Ensure image is in J- Peg format


Sign into your Blog


Click on 'View Blog'.


Find a place within one of your posts that you feel that you have used one of the PLTS skills. (Refer to the specific sentences listed in each category.) Remember the name of that post.


Click on 'New Post'


Click on 'Edit Posts'


Find the name of the Post that you want to add your Digital 'Post it' into and double click on 'Edit'


Find 'Add image' from the Tool bar along the top of the post and double click on it


Click on 'Browse'


Find your 'Post it' Design and Double Click on it


Where it says 'Choose a Layout' select 'None'


Where it says 'Image size' select 'small'


Click on 'Upload image'.


Your image will appear at the top of your Blog Post: Select it and drag it to the position in the post where you have identified your use of this skill


Add some large or colourful text next to the image identifying which sentence of the PLTS skills you feel that you have met.


Add some smaller text describing how you have met this sentence. What did you do? What did you learn from doing it?


Posted by Rebecca Payne

Sunday, 13 December 2009 at 12:00

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