#LearnuaryNI plan
As Erasmus trainees my German colleague Pauline and I got the chance to spend a month at TrainingMatchmaker.com in Belfast, Northern Ireland. On our first day, our Trainer – Chartered Marketer and founder of TrainingMatchmaker.com Christine Watson presented the challenge to us to create a list of learning goals as part of the participative #LearnuaryNI campaign. Here are thirty of thirty-one goals which I set myself to fulfil during the four weeks of my traineeship in Northern Ireland:- Learn how to use WordPress to upload content to a website,
- Complete an introduction to Instagram online programme by Facebook Blueprint,
- Do a Canva online course to learn how to work with graphic design tool ‘Canva’ to create marketing content,
- Learn about essay and report writing skills via free online website OpenLearn by Open University,
- Learn about the basics of video creating with a YouTube online course,
- On this basis, add the course “Creative Studio” to learn how to use tools to optimise the videos,
- Learn about skills to learn and use a new language and how to stay motivated to do so via free online website OpenLearn by Open University,
- Take part at the Apple Photography walk to learn about how to take photos in use of the light and so on,
- Visit the Chinese New Year exhibition of the Confucius Institute of the Ulster University in Belfast to get to know about the Chinese culture and …
- … visit the Chinese New Year Event 2019 in Belfast,
- Create Instagram stories with my German colleague Pauline for the Instagram presence of TrainingMatchmaker.com,
- Watch a movie in the cinema to improve my listening skills to a foreign language,
- Visit the Titanic Belfast museum to learn about its history,
- Visit the Botanic Garden of Belfast to find out and learn about various species of plants,
- Learn about Paraphrasing texts and…
- … summarising texts via OpenLearn,
- Visit Giant’s Causeway and The Gobbins Cliff Path outside of Belfast with my colleagues from the Erasmus programme,
- Take part in a free public tour of the Belfast City Hall to learn about it’s history and structure,
- Take part in a Free Walking Tour to get to see the sights of Belfast and learn about the history,
- Visit Belfast Castle,
- Try food that is exemplary for Northern Irish food such as soda or potato bread or Irish stew,
- Have a look at the current exhibition at The MAC Belfast ( Metropolitan Arts Centre) in Cathedral Quarter,
- Spend an evening in a Pub to get to listen to live music and get to know about the live music culture,
- Visit St George’s Market to experience its variety, entertainment and food,
- Go on a trip to Murlough Beach in the Murlough National Nature Reserve with my Erasmus colleagues,
- With the help of Pauline, learn how to use Google Drive so that we can work together on our blogs and share our results,
- Go to a local theater to experience how it is to watch a play in another language,
- Â Learn about how to react or speak in daily life situations in foreign country,
- Visit the Ulster Museum and have a look at the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition and the mummy,