Last week

Last week

This week I had continue with my assignment for Anna B, It went well considering that again 3 members of my group was not in.

On Monday I had to create a case study for my assignment, the case study involved a electrical store getting feed back from customers about the system they use in there company, basically the reviews was not good and we had to take points from them to make there system better. Then we had to apply this to our own knowledge and assignment to gather information from teachers and staff that look after these laptops.

Earlier that day I was rushing to get to college early as I thought I had an interview for the assignment but was mistaken due to miss communication, in my group.

Later on the that day I had a lesson with Anna O By now we was getting to the end of her assignment and My project was looking really goodbye now I only need to catch up on a few things like changing coding so it works and changing a few of my designs and spelling mistakes, overall my teacher was very happy with the work I put in to this project over the weeks. when I went home that day I fell right asleep as the day was very tiring.

On Tuesday I missed my lesson for Maura as I overslept and my alarm did not go off so when I got to college I had a two hour break as lesson wasn't starting until 12:35, I then had another lesson with Anna O where I had an interview with my teacher to gather information for this assignment, meanwhile my team was working hard to make sure the questionnaire was finished and by the end thy had it done and filled out by a member of staff, I was really happy with my team and the way they got it done considering three people was missing. All that is left to do now is the presentation which needs to be completed by the time we get back from Easter holiday. At the end of the lesson we was greeted by Ella as she wasn't happy with the assignment we did before hand and told us to check it

On Wednesday we again was met by Ella in Maura's lesson to talk about her new assignment which the whole class found confusing, by the end though we made sense of it and by the time her lesson came round we was working on it and said it had to be due by Friday and I was finally getting it, with me lesson with Anna o I was again just catching up on work.

On Thursday I had a tracking lesson with Maura where she told me improvements.

On Friday I heard back from promoter to do a music video and was so happy In couldn't sleep then I came in to catch up on work

How can I improve
I can improve By Meeting it up with my team and communicating more.          

Whole new unit

Whole new unit

Last week I started a new assignment with anna B, this assignment is about created a database to allow people book laptops and other devices like tablets, cameras and phones., she also put us in to groups of six to work together, the group I' in consist of me, Shiraz, Catari, Kavinda, Brandon and Sydney they all wanted me to be the leader but I didn't really want to either way they chose me so I became it. because of this I had to assign everyone with a job to do, miss said if someone does not pull there weight we are allowed to sack them and to get a merit or distinction it is up to you but to pass it has to be a group effort, to gather more information on the project you must book an interview with teachers and let them fill out a questionnaire, this information is to be applied to your power point which she wants to see after half term. To start I put Brandon as scheduler, me and Shiraz in charge of interview and Catari and Sydney in charge of questionnaire and Kavinda in charge of communications and posts. so far so good  and we have our interview tomorrow with anna b to ask these questions, areas I could improve in is that the some of the team can be absent at times and I need to find a way to keep there attendance up through this project. the next day I had a catch up session with Maura and my assignment was due which I enjoyed as it was the first assignment I did on new laptop so I was excited the only issue I had as printing it but after I got that sorted I found the assignment great fun.

We also had a visit from Ella as she told us she will not  be in on Wednesday but gave us an assignment to do anyway,

on my two hour break I went subway and got a foot long sub as I had nothing to eat all that day, then I came back to hand in work For as I hadn't done before hand

The things I could of done better is maybe coming in to college for the rest of that week as I felt ill and not really up to it,

How I could improve

How I could improve is Trying in my best to come for the rest of the days than just being sick.

Coding

Coding

This week I tried my best to at least start Anna o’s assignment the coding was hard so I just focused on the design for now and planning how to do it.

For P4 I had to use my presentation from p2 and present it to the whole class, in that presentation I spoke about Multicultural Differences Engaging audience and positive language

 

The techniques I used for this is I took some time out of class to work on my speech and interpersonal skills I also redid the presentation and made it even simpler straight down to bullet points so my audience doesn’t get bored or confused on what’s on my PowerPoint and instead I made a Microsoft document and put all the information on the p2 presentation on there so I know what I’m speaking about I also studied on how to project your voice and be confident as it was my first time doing a presentation as I was bit nervous.

The techniques I think went well in this assignment was doing a separate presentation and working on my speech and making a separate word document to know what I’m speaking about,

The things that could have been better where I could have research a bit more of how to give a good presentation and although I did well I feel like I could have done better.

Overall I feel like this assignment was fairly easy and I had fun doing it. 

What I could Improve on

Is asking for help when it comes to coding as I do struggle with it allot.

Things are looking up

Things are looking up

this was the week where I had to brush Up on all my work that was due which was harder to do in certain lessons than others and in the mean time I had my merit work for Ella was referred for the second time and this point I was looking to give up on Ella and go for passes as IO wants getting anywhere in her class.

Also I was getting better with programming until I got my new assignment, which was due the first week back after half term and for the whole of this week I was stuck on this assignment

I got my second assignment for Luisa which was about creating a spread sheet and soon found that it linked with my work for Ella which was project planning, This assignment was about an enrolment worksheet on excel for a college which involved students, Enrolment, courses and total funding this assignment It was all done in class time  I also was settling into my new job and was finding trying to find time to do sleep go to gym and go studio with make my college work lack, I did have a couple hiccups with Anna o because of this and I was trying hard not for that to happen again.

What I could improve on
 
I could improve on managing time between working a leisure
 

Refferals

Referrals

 Had referrals for Ella and I was really struggling with her course I felt like I wasn’t getting enough help with it and the whole class felt like she wasn’t marking our and was just giving it back us. I didn’t know what to do so I spoke to my mum about it and she said that you need to tell the teacher how you’re feeling so I tried to but didn’t get anywhere with. Meanwhile I got my second Assignment for Anna B where we spoke about maintenance and decoding the Jargon, software Utilities, which I just about got in on time and a test Plan.

I got my second   assignment for Luisa which was about creating a spread shee6t and soon found that it linked with my work for Ella which was project planning, This assignment was about an enrolment worksheet on excel for a college which involved students, Enrolment, courses and total funding this assignment It was all done in class time  I also was settling into my new job and was finding trying to find time to do sleep go to gym and go studio with make my college work lack, I did have a couple hiccups with Anna o because of this and I was trying hard not for that to happen again.

At this point I really didn't feel that Ella was teaching us well enough but I tried to stick at it, I just didn't get it at all and I was getting worried, But later on that week I got three passes for Ella and had a referred merit this made me feel like I was actually getting somewhere with her work.
Improvements

The improvements I could make is to not give up so easily when I do nit pass the assignment first time

Assignments coming thick and fast

Week 2 I got my first assignment for Anna O the one assignment I dreading so to solve this I asked for even more lesson and as I started to remember the programming off by heart I still didn’t understand it enough to do the assignment so I turned to my friends for help and they fully understood my struggle and decided to help me I got it all in and I was happy with my work

Then I got My assignment For Louisa which was about the use of excel I found this was pretty easy and found out later on that it was to get me ready for her second assignment for her But going back I had to speak about the definition of a spread sheet, Typical users, Manipulating data, data mining and complex problems I did this in about a week.

In P3 and M1 We had to speak about Communication barriers and overcoming them where I chose to write about. Background noise, Language differences, Lack of concentration, Lack of interest, Too much information, Cultural, Psychological and being late as I spoke about how it will be barrier 

For this assignment I used the same techniques as P2 but I learnt from my mistake and did research for half the lesson and did the assignment for the other half I also used publisher to complete the assignment where instead of wasting time on creating a document to look appealing I used a template instead and changed a few things for example instead of a company name I just stated my college and instead of my phone number I used that as my bibliography. I also got a classmate to proofread it as because it is a publication it’s harder to spell check.

How I could improve

The techniques that worked was doing research and the assignment in class as it took me less time to do and gave me time to focus on other assignments and using publisher software as the specification says to make a leaflet and I did that the only way I know how and that is on publisher and using a template and I didn’t feel anything could of been better in this assignment.

The way I could improve is doing some more research on my assignments

 

 

 

Second Term Start

Second term start


My second term at this college has been a bit harder but I also started to learn my weaknesses and strengths .

Week 1 when I came back I started to make loads of friends and I started to get used to my surroundings in the college I also decided I wanted to stay as I was considering leaving because of travel expenses and time as I was not hitting the nine o clock lessons on time but as the time moved on started to get there on time

At this point I would say that my weakness in lesson is chatting, I don’t think I have been applying myself the way I can in lesson then when I get home I have a pile of work that needs to be done before I can relax and plus I now have work on a Saturday and Sunday so I hardly have time to do it

By this time I realised that something had to change and I needed and organising system so I don’t get behind on my work.

Week 2 I got my first assignment for Anna O the one assignment I dreading so to solve this I asked for even more lesson and as I started to remember the programming off by heart I still didn't understand it enough to do the assignment so I turned to my friends for help and they fully understood my struggle and decided to help me I got it all in and I was happy with my work

Then I got My assignment For Louisa which was about the use of excel I found this was pretty easy and found out later on that it was to get me ready for her second assignment for her But going back I had to speak about the definition of a spread sheet, Typical users, Manipulating data, data mining and complex problems I did this in about a week.

In P3 and M1 We had to speak about Communication barriers and overcoming them where I chose to write about. Background noise, Language differences, Lack of concentration, Lack of interest, Too much information, Cultural, Psychological and being late as I spoke about how it will be barrier 

 For this assignment I used the same techniques as P2 but I learnt from my mistake and did research for half the lesson and did the assignment for the other half I also used publisher to complete the assignment where instead of wasting time on creating a document to look appealing I used a template instead and changed a few things for example instead of a company name I just stated my college and instead of my phone number I used that as my bibliography. I also got a classmate to proofread it as because it is a publication it’s harder to spell check.

How I could improve

 The techniques that worked was doing research and the assignment in class as it took me less time to do and gave me time to focus on other assignments and using publisher software as the specification says to make a leaflet and I did that the only way I know how and that is on publisher and using a template and I didn't feel anything could of been better in this assignment.

During this time I had my first studio session at the new studio and I truly enjoyed myself

The thing I  can also improve on is making more time to do assignments