Group Session 1: First Week Reflections

What’s a reflective diary?
We have reached the end of the first week of the EILC11. Work in groups and try to keep an online reflective diary. A reflective diary is a way of thinking in a critical and analytical way about your work in progress. It shows how different aspects of your work interconnect. Be creative about this!

What happened?
Describe your first impression, what you did and what you learned. Is it still all Greek to you? Make sure you talk about what you expect and what you get from this course!

How do you feel about it?
What is important, interesting, relevant or useful? Is it something you are proud of?
• Reflective diaries are a record of experiences, so it is important to use them to report thoughts, feelings and opinions rather than simply the factual events of any given day.
• Only by reporting personal feelings following an event can experiences be built on and improved.
• It is important to use the reflective diary to record positive experiences and achievements as well as the not so positive ones.

What did I learn?
What have I learned? Is it interesting and useful in your daily practice/ professional practice? Did this course improve your staying in Cyprus? What are you now going to do with the new knowledge and skills you have gained from doing this work? In other words, how will it influence your future staying in Cyprus?

Getting Started
• Allow some time to think through your thoughts and ideas
• Don’t worry about style or presentation (this is not a test it is a record for you and an insight to your thoughts for your teacher)
• Reflect on your thoughts and feelings about the processes you are undertaking and the results of those actions. In other words, don’t simply record a list of actions; think about what your thoughts are in relation to those actions.

Format of a reflective diary

The Erasmus Intensive Language Course will last for 4 weeks. It is expected from each group to write at least four posts (one for each week).

In the first post include:
• Greeting, names and nationality/country of origin of the group members in Greek
• Reflections of what you did and what you have learned in both Greek and English.

You can use:
• photographs or video
• power point presentation
• photo story
• narration
• links
• anything else that you may find useful in order to share you experience with other people

Week 1 _ Individual Reflections

Εκδρομή στο Τρόοδος-Excursion to Troodos!

Καλημέρα παιδιά!!I hope you had a really nice time at Troodos today! Looking forward for your impressions!!

Flickr

Καλησπέρα!!!I have sent an invitation to our Flickr photo sharing Group! You can all join the group, view and upload photos here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1689184@N25/pool/

Enjoy!

Dropbox

Γεια σας παιδιά!!Please download dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/) on your laptops. Amaranta you can send invitations to everyone, and get free space (I think I have the maximum:). I am sure you will make the most of your visit tomorrow! Remember to take a lot of pictures! You will need them for your fisrt assignment!!! 

First Impressions!!

Γεια σας!! It has already been almost half a week!! Thank you all for a really great Lighting Talk session and very challenging first lesson! I suppose that by this moment you are all enjoying the sea!!! Have fun everyone, and let me know of your first impressions!!

Dictionary!!

If anyone is interested in buying a dictionary, I would reccommend this one: http://www.lichnari.gr/main.php?authors_id=24