Hello. My name is Marianna Majzonova (NB. pronounce \u2018Y\u2019 instead of \u2018J\u2019) and I joined the CEI Team (Centre for Education Innovation) last week to support academics and colleagues across the university with learning technologies.\u00a0 I would like to take a moment to tell you more about myself and my first two weeks in the job.<\/p>\n
I am originally from South of Slovakia, from a small town called Nov\u00e9 Z\u00e1mky<\/a>. My foreign adventures started soon after I left secondary school and I studied and worked in The Netherlands (Den Haag<\/a>) for a year. In 2002 I returned to Slovakia and studied Economics and Public Administration at the University of Alexander Dub\u010dek in Tren\u010d\u00edn<\/a>. Shortly after my graduation I left the country and moved to Cardiff. One could say that I followed my dreams.<\/p>\n I knew that working with children could help me improve my English and I quickly realised that it can increase my chances to get a job I like and to be part of the interesting community. I was a nursery nurse for over a year and thanks to this opportunity I got step closer to my preferred career.<\/p>\n Since 2008 I\u2019ve been working in Eliesha Training and held two positions here. When I joined the company I was part of the Learning and Development Administration Team. As a senior administrator, I was supervising a small team of administrators and have been dealing with awarding bodies and managing accredited programmes. In 2013 I accepted their offer to become a technical and e-learning officer, and here I found my true passion for learning technologies. Suddenly the world became much clearer in terms of my future focus. Blended learning and e-learning design has never been so exciting. \u00a0My objective was to provide a flawless, meaningful, user-friendly and attractive service as possible. I certainly enjoyed the whole process, from finding out what clients want, building the resources, researching, testing, to presenting final products, monitoring and improving post service. Amazing stuff.<\/p>\n My first seven days in CEI: Meet the team and let\u2019s make the most out of technologies <\/u><\/p>\n My first week in the job was truly special. Gethin, Dewi, Owen and Nathan have been really welcoming, encouraging and friendly.\u00a0 Sometimes I feel like I\u2019ve known them for many years. \u00a0The first few weeks have been packed with meetings and more meetings. I got together with the wider learning technologies team and was interested to hear about their projects and plans. I was impressed with Learning Central and the tools within. Thank you Karl Luke<\/a> for a great introduction to Panopto. I have been finding my ways around the new systems and processes, slow start but all the more fun.<\/p>\n