Skype with Adesola

Last night I had a group skype with Adesola and 7 other students. At first when I joined I realised that some of the students were module 3 and straight away I panicked and thought what if I have no idea what they are discussing, I am so far behind them surely this skype is going to confuse me. In fact I found the complete opposite. Although I wasn't as involved in all the discussions as I usually am, I found it so interesting to listen to the people on module 3 explaining about their current tasks and discussing what they are taking from the other modules to get where they are now.

The first topic that the Module 3 students talked about is their evidence to the task they are on now. The students also mentioned that keeping a reflective journal is a very important thing to do. As now they are reflecting over the three modules they wouldn't have the evidence they need, or be able to see how far they have come if they didn't keep writing the journal. Straight away I noted down I must keep doing this because at the end of this course I want to have the most information and knowledge as possible and also I want to be able to reflect and see the improvements I have made a long the way.
 
The reason I joined the skype initially was to discuss how you go about writing the essay at the end of module 1. This is how I found my answer:

PROCESS
We began a discussion about the process of things. I was just listening at first to peoples idea's and opinions before I realised the process is what gets me my theories to write my essay. I then began taking notes on what I thought would be useful to me.

- How we get to where we are now
- Why I believe what I believe
- Always give evidence
- How did I go about this task?
- What is my personal opinion now and what was it when I first began this task?
- Reflection
- What is my outlook now?

The points above were noted down because I realised using these questions and notes will create my essay. It is all things that I need the information on and put together in order to create the essay.

As Adesola said at the beginning, a skype is not to ask questions and get an answer because that will be to easy, but it is to discuss and find your ways and get your knowledge via that. So from most of the skype I found listening to others discussions made me realise that the process is what you use to gather all your information. After all the process for me so far has been how I started in Module 1 to where I am now, and that is what I intend to write about.

At the end of the skype we talked about what we learnt during that time and I explained how I noted down about the process of things and it has made my mind much clearer. I think joining a skype with students in different modules will be something that I will try and do more often. I believe sometimes it is good to sit back and listen rather that be fully involved all the time. I felt I learnt much more in this skype by listening than I would of if I tried to get to involved in the discussions.