OU Students Past, Present and Future

Fizzbitz

PLease can I be added onto the front page? Am currently finishing off DB123, moving onto U116 and they are towards a BA or BSC in International Studies.

Fizz

uzubairu

Hi everyone,
I've just signed up for course B120 which starts next month.
Nervous and excited at the same time.

I currently work full time in retail.

mum2one

uzubairu wrote: »

Hi everyone,
I've just signed up for course B120 which starts next month.
Nervous and excited at the same time.

I currently work full time in retail.

ur like B120, its a good intro to the business side of the world. x

mum2one

Got all my goodies for DD100 give it a headstart next week, xx

gravitytolls

I'm starting DD101, can't work out how to get connected to other students on FB. Anyone else doing or done the course on here?

mum2one

gravitytolls wrote: »

I'm starting DD101, can't work out how to get connected to other students on FB. Anyone else doing or done the course on here?

I'm the some as you, are you doing urs in 2 parts, your doing the 1st part, don't know if there is a facebook group. Which area are you, I'm region 4 West Midlands x

gravitytolls

mum2one wrote: »

I'm the some as you, are you doing urs in 2 parts, your doing the 1st part, don't know if there is a facebook group. Which area are you, I'm region 4 West Midlands x

Ooh, now you're asking, I thought it was one, but now you've given me the willies and will need to check it out.

I'm in Norfolk.

mum2one

gravitytolls wrote: »

Ooh, now you're asking, I thought it was one, but now you've given me the willies and will need to check it out.

I'm in Norfolk.

Apologies its me its DD101 - all in 1 at the end if we pass we get a certifciate in Social Sciences, and get letters after our name!
It gets me confused as you can do it all in one as we are, or theres the option of doing in in 2 halves, so I though the 01 was the 1st half..

If your Norfolk we won't get the same tutor, just looked at the course quickly on home page and we've got 7 tutorials.. from Jan there 1 a month or so...help!!

I always panic with new courses, got the box sat in the hallway - thinking if I open it - means have to get started!

Don't forget to apply for your NUS card - you go through NUS website thinks £14 lasts till end of Aug, but cinema get cheaper rate, a lot of the shops, attractions you get child price, - you can soon cover the cost of the card.
xx

celyn90

Does anyone have an EMA that is a literature review to do? I'm trying to write mine, but it seems to want me to spend 500 words describing how I searched for stuff and how I selected things (erm, I read them and didn't included them if I thought they were rubbish?). I don't know if I've interpreted that right - is it a normal part of an EMA to have to do that? I use operators a lot when I search and I'm worried about what they'll think if I start writing out crazy looking search strings.

It really breaks the flow of my essay too (well, what little there is of it at the moment :rotfl:) as the "strongly advised" format suggests it sits between the introduction and the main body.

The marking grid is also making me nervous - there are marks available for responding and adapting your plan to your tutors comments; but there isn't actually anything I can respond to on mine. *sigh*

Already got and used NUS card though - even if the students at work find it hilarious It's paid for itself already, plus the ISIC extra is really worth it if you travel a lot too.

My readers and stuff for the next ones have turned up too - for one course it is just a single book (which bizarrely I already have a copy of), but for the other it's a mahoosive box o'stuff.

Ahhh... still, better stop procrastintating and get back to work - am working away from home at the moment for a couple of days - I thought I would have some peace and quiet on my own, but there appears to be an army of tap-dancing hippos (plus an unhappy baby) in the apartment above *sighs again*. And no access to wine either.:eek:

mum2one

celyn90 wrote: »

Does anyone have an EMA that is a literature review to do? I'm trying to write mine, but it seems to want me to spend 500 words describing how I searched for stuff and how I selected things (erm, I read them and didn't included them if I thought they were rubbish?). I don't know if I've interpreted that right - is it a normal part of an EMA to have to do that? I use operators a lot when I search and I'm worried about what they'll think if I start writing out crazy looking search strings.

It really breaks the flow of my essay too (well, what little there is of it at the moment :rotfl:) as the "strongly advised" format suggests it sits between the introduction and the main body.

The marking grid is also making me nervous - there are marks available for responding and adapting your plan to your tutors comments; but there isn't actually anything I can respond to on mine. *sigh*

Already got and used NUS card though - even if the students at work find it hilarious It's paid for itself already, plus the ISIC extra is really worth it if you travel a lot too.

My readers and stuff for the next ones have turned up too - for one course it is just a single book (which bizarrely I already have a copy of), but for the other it's a mahoosive box o'stuff.

Ahhh... still, better stop procrastintating and get back to work - am working away from home at the moment for a couple of days - I thought I would have some peace and quiet on my own, but there appears to be an army of tap-dancing hippos (plus an unhappy baby) in the apartment above *sighs again*. And no access to wine either.:eek:

Not done literature, sorry, but what course is it?

It says about tutors commets etc - responding and adapting = when you submit your EMA its not marked by your tutor, so who ever marks it won't know what you have done previosuly.

generally on the EC3, (the report page from tutor) they put there thoughts down, it could be something as simple as youve changed how youve searched for info, - where as previously you may have read a chapter of a book, but now you skim read through the 1st chapter, and by then this will show whether the book is suitable to use, or not.

500 words thats 1 sheet a4 in the whole thats a small portion of the ema. Literature - your going to use various sources, its a way of them seeing that your not just using your course material that your looking for additional information, so you could explains sources, what your looking for from them, how you extract the info,.

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I could be going off on a tanget but hopefully it might make some sense.

Sometimes take a day break then come back refreshed, if your still not 100$ sure whether you have read the ENA right email your tutor or ring them and ask,

Good luck x