Task

This week I emailed Steve on Monday morning to ask what the task for this week was going to be. He emailed me back to say that we where going to do a presentation on a colour, mine was red, I was so pleased as I felt this would be a good colour with plenty of information to present on. We have to talk about what red means in general, and different cultures.

I started of by researching the colour on the Internet there was lots of information about the colour. I never thought that there would be so much reference on the colour. I then started writing notes on various topics for this colour. I found it interesting that different cultures used red to represent traditional ways. Then I started to put my presentation together using the notes that we had been given. I started off by writing an introduction to my presentation and putting it together word by word.

On Tuesday I emailed Steve to ask if there were any more tasks for the week, which was just to finish off the presentation which needed to be ready to present on Monday. I then finished off putting my presentation together, I decided to use PowerPoint instead of Pagemaker as I thought I wouldn’t be able to make a presentation using Pagemaker. I need to make sure that the presentation is set out correctly and make sure I have enough information for the handouts. My presentation is going to be a basic presentation with no visual aids, to distract from the information I will presenting.

At first I was nervous that it was a presentation, but felt everyone would probably be feeling the same. As I started researching the colour red I felt more confident as there was such a lot of facts on this colour and felt that my presentation would last for five minutes. I don’t like the idea of presentations but feel I would get more confident in time with practice and my presentations will improve.

Also this week I am going to collect pictures to use in my sketch book, so that I am able to look back at them for any ideas which will be useful for other work I will be doing in the next couple of years.

I had problems with my Internet connection and although I had done my blog on time was unable to put it on my blog.

Its the holidays

Well the holiday is here and I feel much better that the work has been handed in so that I don't have to worry any more.

I am now wondering what the task for next week will be. I hope it's not some thing difficult that I won't be able to do, as there will be no one to help us with the work. I am also going to read over the new assignments making sure that I understand them so that when I get back to college I wont have to worry that I know nothing about them.

I am looking forward to getting my results as I now want to know if I have passed or not.

Finally its the hand in day

This week as been very productive, as the work as gone really well and Ive finally handed my work, in which I feel so much better about now. This week I started the week by putting my work in to page maker which went very well to say am not really use to this program yet. I all so had to adjust the designs as they wasn't to the correct size so I made sure that they where done to standard. I also needed to do some other tasks like correct some of the work where needed to put in to the assignment.

But I do realise now that I should have timed my assignment better because it was a bit of a rush at the last minute getting my work in too order was a bit hard but I got this done but did take quiet a bit of time. But I now know that when I do my next assignment that I should be able to do this better so that I don't have to worry at the last minute that I have not got every thing.

Now that I have completed the first assignment I now feel better about the course as when I first started I wasn't to sure that I was good enough to do the work what was given. I now feel better that I will be able to do the next assignment as I feel that I am learning a lot more and feel that I could use my skills better in the next piece of work. I have learnt a lot so far as some of the things I didn't have a clue about but know I know a lot more which is a really great help and feel that I am learning a lot quicker. But there is still loads that I need to learn. Now its the holidays I feel that I could relax so that I am ready for when I come back to college.

Final week and its all gone wrong

This week has been a really rubbish week, as when I came to save my work the computer went crazy, so I was unable to save it. When I went back to the document it wasn't there, so I had to re do most of my work again as I didn't have the new work printed off. I had to look at some of the old work I had and try too see what ideas I could put in my new work I had started. I couldn't believe that I had spent all this time working on the assignment, but I new that I would just have to carry on with it and try to make the old work as good as what I had before. I made sure that I caught up with my work on Monday as I have tried really hard to catch up to where I was. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough work to show when it came to the group meeting about the hand in of the assignment. But I had most of the work done and produced in the right way. I still have quiet a bit of work to do, but it's more just adding things to the work I have already done.

For my study this week I am going to start from the beginning of the work and put in any ideas that I have got to make it a lot better. I need to make sure that I have looked at different books so that I have used both computer and books in my assignment. I have made notes in my book where I have found information that would be suitable to use. I also need to make sure that all of the work is correctly done. For next week I need to make sure that I have already completed every thing so that I can just make sure that I have got the right work printed of to put straight in to my folder then I don't have to worry I haven't done anything because it will all be completed.

Room for improvement

This week has been a very productive week, I finally feel like I am getting the work done more quickly. At first I didn't really like Pagemaker as I kept doing things wrong, but now I feel like I have got used to it. I produced my designs which I thought wouldn't turn out well, but I am quite proud of myself, I have learnt quickly this week which has made it easier to produce the work.

I have completed the structure diagram, which was annoying at first as you have to keep adjusting the lines to produce the structure, with a little help I finally got this done. The presentation on Monday has helped as I wasn't sure if I would be able to set out the assignment I had already done in Pagemaker, but as I have gone over this I feel like I have gained better understanding of how this works. I felt I was doing the assignment quicker, but I am still worried that I have loads to do, as some of the work I have been doing has gone wrong . This week was a week that I could have time to just look over the work and see if there is anything that needs improving. I still have to finish some of the work of which I will be doing in my self study this week. I need to make sure that I have planned my week, so that I know what I am doing for self study, firstly checking that the work I have already done is looking ok, I need to go over the work I have done so far making sure this is correct.