Assignment Two Completion

Today we started off with a quiz about the different types of houses. The types of houses were the bee-eer house that consisted of love and relationships, The dreamer house that consisted of spirituality and dreams, and the do-er house that mainly has rules and order. The questions however were easy because it was things like what the talker in the videos name was and the colour of his shirt. I achieved a score of 10.5 out of 13 which is good but unfortunately people beat me to first second and third.

I then moved on to working on my PowerPoint for my talk. I added a conclusion slide and lots of transitions to keep it interesting. I also added notes to the bottom of the slide so I can remember what to say when it comes to the talk. I have to wait till tomorrow to do the talk and then write the report about another persons PowerPoint presentations.

I then completed the visual learner task which was to create a handout or leaflet that talks about the different learning styles like visual, audio and verbal. I also had to create a mini questionnaire that displays results for a learning type. I also had to discuss which learning type I preferred and discuss my results.

I feel I do not need any help with my work at this stage because I have almost finished the unit because all I have left to do is giving my presentation and writing a report on someone else.

Overall today was a good day because I got lots of work done like finishing my PowerPoint and the different learner styles handout. I enjoyed the simplicity of the Thursday quiz and the football session at lunch time. I did not enjoy finding out that I had to wait till tomorrow to do two tasks because the rest of my power point group had not finished.   

Close To Completing Assignment One

Today we started off with a quiz about the things we have learned over the past week of this unit. The questions seemed difficult until everyone found out how much they scored. I scored 10 out 14 which was not enough to win the prize because someone achieved a score of 12 out of 14. The lowest score was 3 meaning I was just above average in terms of my score in this quiz.

We then moved on to working on either the PowerPoint for assignment two or working on assignment three. I worked on assignment one and I have now finished my PowerPoint and I am now working on the Word document that shows what kind of proofreading methods were used like spellchecker, thesaurus and the track changes tool. I feel I will finish assignment two on Thursday or Friday depending on when I present my presentation.

After Lunch we continued on with the work we were doing after break. I got lots more work done but I have not yet finished the Word document. I hope to have it finished on Thursday leaving me time on Friday to get on with assignment three.

I feel I do not need any help with assignment two because I have done two of the three tasks and I understand the final task meaning I will hopefully have the work done.

Overall today was a very good day because I did a lot of assignment work and I have handed in work from he previous software design unit. I enjoyed the quiz we did in the morning and I found it funny seeing the hat designs Chris and Brandon were coming up with. I did not enjoy the weather this morning because it was very cold in fact it was -2 degrees meaning even wearing a coat did not do a lot to keep me warm.
 

The Beginning of Assignment Two

Today we started off by working on assignment two task one. We had to create a power point on the readability of code and then create a draft with mistakes in and then show evidence that we have rectified these mistakes using print screens and explaining the changes we made. I felt I am doing well at this assignment because I have followed the task exactly but I need to begin with the evidence document and then I will be finished. I will have this done by the deadline and I am not looking foward to presenting in front of people.

We then moved on to completing a survey created by VAK that eventually tells you what kind of learner you are. There are four different types visual, auditory, kinesthetic and read/write learner. My results are that I am a read/write learner by majority and a couple of points behind was auditory learner. I think the results correctly show what kind of learner I am.

I then moved on to handing in re submission work from the programming unit. I have handed in all of it except the actual program because it does not work and I need to fix it and then send it off. I hope to have this done today so I can then focus my efforts on the current unit of communication and employ-ability skills in I.T

I am currently enjoying the current unit because it has been easy to understand and I feel I have fully understood the assignments and what content we have to add to them. I also find what we are talking about interesting because I hope to get an apprenticeship in I.T meaning I will need good employ-ability skills.

Overall today was a good day because I got lots of work done and I hope to be able to focus on this unit in order to get more work done. I also enjoyed seeing some amazing origami and everyone's great footballing ability at lunchtime. I did not enjoy having to wear the late hat because I was about 10 seconds late into the classroom.        
 

Assignment one Complete

Today we started off by working on any unfinished or outstanding work. I continued on with assignment one task two and managed to get it completed by the end of the day. I felt task two has not gone too badly but I feel it is not as good as task one in terms of quality. I feel the whole assignment has gone very well because I understood the information and put all of it in the assignment.

I then moved on to handing some work from the previous software design unit that we completed last week. I successfully handed it in and I now await the results from this re submission.

I did not need any help with the first assignment of this unit because I understood the information well and took it all in. I now have to start on assignment two task one because we have to do three or four assignments per unit. I hope to complete the assignment two before the deadline which I have not yet been told.

Today I enjoyed some aspects of the work and I enjoyed seeing Danny's memes that he created yesterday. I enjoyed the meme until I realised he had used a picture of me from 5 years ago. I least enjoyed the stress of having to meet today's deadline and getting some of the previous work from other units done.

Overall today was a good day because I got a lot of work done and I now have two days off to relax and then begin again on Monday. The positives form this week were that I started a new unit, The entertaining quiz that we did on Thursday and the footballing sessions at lunch break. The negatives from this week were that I had a lot of work to do and deadlines to meet making me stresses, completing previous work and finding out I featured in the meme of the day for yesterday.

Assignment One Task Two

Today we started off with a quiz about a kick-starter product that planned to ad WiFi to any given product. I felt the questions were quite easy because the questions were not about the content but more about certain small things like what colour handle the man was holding onto. I managed to achieve a score of 7 out of 10 which means I do not have to do the quiz next week.

Next we moved on to talking about assignment two and how effective proof reading can be. We had to look at an example piece of work and make any changes to mistakes that are made. I felt I did well at this task because I found most of the mistakes other than one or two that needed to be searched up on Google. We then discussed the methods we used on the whiteboard and how effective they can be.

We then carried on with any piece of work we needed to do. I carried on with task one and managed to complete task one and I have now moved on to task two which requires me to make a power-point that talks about effective communication and the different methods that can make communication effective. I feel I will finish this task tomorrow and then be able to hand in assignment one before the deadline.

I enjoyed the quiz because I found the video interesting because I liked the looks of the product and it showed just how far technology has come in the last few years. I least enjoyed talking about assignment two because I have not yet finished assignment one meaning I found it stressful because i now have lots of work stacked on top of each other.

Overall today was a good day because there were some fun aspects like the quiz but there were negatives like assignment two and everyone's footballing ability was a bit of a let down including mine! I am looking forward to tomorrow because it is Friday and the end of the week and I should be able to get a lot of work done tomorrow.        

Assignment one

Today we began with a talk given by a man from the Royal Navy recruitment office in Norwich. The talk was about apprenticeships and jobs within the Royal Navy. He discussed things like what section of the Navy we could join to what kind of skills are required to be successful. I felt the talk in some aspects was interesting like talking about the different skills but I found the Royal Navy section boring because I have no interest in joining the navy.

We then moved on to assignment one which is discussing why each attribute skill and attitude is valued by employers. I am currently writing up the attitude section of the task having already completed the general attributes and job based attributes. I feel I will meet the deadline set for this Friday because I have been working very hard so far.

After lunch we continued with assignment one until break time. I feel I do not need any help with my assignment at this time because I largely understand what we have to make and write before Fridays deadline.

I most enjoyed the hangman games we did when trying to guess words that had to do with skills and attributes. I least enjoyed the talk because I felt we could have done more work within that time frame.

Overall today was a very good and productive day because I got a lot done but I felt more could have been done during the talk.

New Unit

Today we started a new unit called communications and employ-ability skills in I.T. The starter activity involved the team leader of each group to go up to a table and create the object they were told to. They then had to go back to the groups and give them some Lego to create exactly the same object without showing the group. I felt our group did really well at this task because we successfully made the object we were told to despite how simple it looked to make.

We were then told to find a job on the internet and list it's skills and attributes section. Each job had different skills and attributes because each job was different. We then listed each of the attributes on the board to make a more complete list.This helped me to understand more about the different skills and attributes that employers regularly look for. We also listed down attitude and skills using the same method.

We then made mini presentations on an assigned attribute. Our group was given interpersonal skills that we had to come up with a definition and examples for. We then presented these in front of the class and it was interesting to see what people had come up with. I felt our presentation could of had a bit more detail but we didn't have enough time to add more bullet points.

We then played a game of Chinese whispers to show how ineffective communication can be. It started off with a small group of four that successfully completed the chain. We then tried this with the whole class and things just got massively complicated and somehow Billy's mum was thrown into the equation.

Overall I felt today was both an informative and enjoyable day because I learnt about many new skills and attributes employers are looking for and I enjoyed the games of Chinese whispers. I least enjoyed playing football in the rain at lunch and my bus breaking down in the morning and having to stand in the rain and wait for a new one.