Wednesday 27th Feb

Today is the half day for most people as for some reason we don't have to do it, I have no idea why but i'm not going to complain.
Today I started my first day on Animation I read through the criteria and started on assignment one task, I managed to get half of it done and will need a couple more hours to get it completed.
I talked to Dan about the animation unit and he talked me through it and shew me what he has done so far on his task one. I did not do much else as it was half day for me.

Animation unit looks pretty promising and i'm sure i will enjoy it.

Thursday 21st Feb

Today is the days of just all level threes, this seems to be a more laid back, calm day for John until Matthew says something to annoy John (Which is his purpose in life).
Today I carried on with Serif WebPlus and creating my website, I think I am used to Serif now its not as bad as I first thought but it can aid you in creating a decent website from what I have seen.
With Serif I was able to create my website a lot quicker than on Dreamweaver, I found this out as I'm near to finishing the website just a few more things I need to add in.
Today I have managed to input a contact form in my Website, a lot of other people had trouble with this and theirs didn't work but I somehow managed to get mine to work and with a message at the end saying the message was successfully sent. At first it was rather annoying as it was confusing what we had to do but it worked fine once John created an FTP(File Transfer Protocol) server.

An FTP server allows you to get your website to go live on the internet so it is viewable from other computer and it also test the functionality to make sure it works properly and there is no problems with your website at all.

As creating the contact form took a long time to do for everyone we were not able to get much accomplished but I did add more to my website so I can move further on in this unit to complete task 4 and possibly move on to task 5 to get the whole unit completed.
Today I learned what FTP meant as I wast completely sure what is was and what it did but I know now so it is all good.

Wednesday 20th Feb

Today it seem that Ted Tuesday had moved to Wednesday because someone obviously didn't know what day it was. As I thought that we didn't have to do Ted questionnaire I didn't bother watching it Tuesday morning but I went through the questionnaire like a mad man as I had not a clue what answers to put and I should think I didn't get a very high score.
I carried on with Serif WebPlus and got quit a lot accomplished. The only thing I need to do is the other units we have not started yet so it will be an on going website and fully complete when we have completed all units in the course. I also need to update my gallery work so people can see what we did. I can then move onto the next assignment and hand that in for the date set.

After four hours of ICT and creating my website and after lunch we had Functional Skills English which is an absolute thriller for the whole class!
In Functional skills today we had to watch a short video on how to write a good newspaper article and what we should include in it when writing one. we then had the task of planing and writing our own newspaper article about Develop centre. we did  this so people could be aware of develop is in Norwich and how they could apply for it and what the course involves. most people in the class didn't seem to happy and willing to do this however I got on with the task and started to plan out what I wanted to put and got onto writing a bit of it.

Today in English I have learned what a newspaper article consists of and what should be included in one. I was then able to answer question to a decent standard and with understanding.

Tuesday 19th Feb

Yesterday we were supposed to do TED video but john hadn't done any questions for us from what i heard from a little birdie cough cough DAN. Today I completely redone my Website on serif webplus. It was very basic but over the next few day i will make up to a good standard.
today I completed Graphics assignment 3 task 4 and sent it to john to mark.

My targets i will set my self is to stay in my seat longer instead of helping others way too much but considering i have helped people a lot today i got quit a bit of work achieved.

Monday 18th Feb

Today I was working to get the whole of assignment 2 finished in COM unit, I managed complete that by doing task 3 three which was the last one I had to do. i then sent it off to john so he could mark it. 

I also completed Website production assignment 3 Task 1 which is the updated version as all of that assignment needs to be in. I have started on task two and three and should have them completed very soon.

Today I reviewed Robs second practice run for one of his tasks as he chose me to assess him along side John and Catherine. I gave him some constructive criticism  on how to improve so he can present his presentation very well for the real one that he will get marked on.

I have learnt more on Dreamweaver by inputting a contact form on my website I am creating. 

I will write what I wan to put on each page over the next two days

I enjoyed today as I managed to get quit a lot of work done and was able to have a relaxing day

Website production day!

Today was the day we use Dreamweaver again. I have got quite far considering I have helped a lot of people today. I have managed to create all my pages and links all of them, when i open it in my browser it work completely fine. i think i will be fine as i have created all the structure and now it should be plain sailing from now on.
I have Added a description to my home page and the first fault i noticed was that the drop down menu became transparent to the text so I had to change that on Dreamweaver and now it works very well. it is very easy to navigate through my website and now I am getting used to Dreamweaver I can work fast.

Over the next week I will watch some videos/ tutorials so I can be reassured I know what i'm doing next Thursday.
Tomorrow I will write a document for each page so I know what I want text I want to insert. I will also be a bit further ahead.

Half Day Wednesday

When we came in today John had another activity for us to do on small basic to do some coding.
we had to try and get it to count from 1 to 10 with one click on enter and no more. I had done that with 10 lines but then attempted a loop and it was success I was then able to put as many numbers as I wanted with out writing millions of lines just to get to the number I had inputted. in fact it is still zooming through millions of number to get to the number i had put. in the end there was only three line which was:
For num = 1 To 1000000000
TextWindow.WriteLine(num)
Endfor

Today I have nearly completed assignment two task three COM, I need to write about one more bullet point then I am done. I have also organised all of task two into one file that relates to the videos.

Today I didn't need any help and I am gradually getting better at programming so by the time we start the programming unit I wont have many issues.

"Suit Up!!" Barney Stinson Style Tuesday

Today we all (Me,Lewis,Ben,Jake,Rob and Matt, okay so not all) wore a Suit as we decided last week we were going to have a suit Tuesday, I managed to get mine in time for today as I brought mine yesterday after our course and luckily got the one I wanted to get and fitted nicely. Also John look very smart today in his suit too. WE ALL LOOKED THE DON OR ONE COULD SAY THE MAFIA

Today for the starter John gave us a task on small basic to do, it was the same task as yesterday but we had to fully complete it. we had to input three number and program it to get the correct total and for it to find the average. The last thing we had to do was to validate the whole thing.

As we done our presentation yesterday and it was all recorded and received feedback from the other group (Scott and Jack) assessing us. I was then able to complete task 2 assignment 2 in communication and employability. I did this by writing a review on our own groups and how they did and how they can make their work better by marking their work and putting track changes on, I did this for Dan and Shane who were in my group.
I have managed to complete more than half of Task 3 in assignment 2. I have wrote about the other groups performance and reviewed them and said about how they could improve.

Today I have learnt how to validate and program properly on Small basic, I seem to have the hang of things now and hopefully when it comes to the programming unit I will do alright in it.

I enjoyed reviewing the other group as I can criticise them on their bad points but not to much as they did alright in their presentation.
The only thing I needed help with today was small basic but I didn't get any help from John or Catherine I just used john example on the board to work my way through each step.
I loved SUIT DAY as we all Looked LEGEN.... wait for it.... DARY!!

Presentation Day

Today was the day of all presentations from level three's. In the morning we started off with programming, what we had to do on small basic was to try and input random numbers when it was complete and to make sure it gets the correct answer and then had to program it to find the average after it had the total.
I managed to do that but at first with great difficulty but then I picked up on what I had to do and i was away and it worked great.

After that we had to go over our practice run on our presentation, we did alright on our first run but had to improve a lot and if that was the marking one we would have got a low score.
we took Johns advise on how to improve and me, Dan and Shane talked for a while before we had to present our final product. it went very well and in the end we got a rating of 5 out of 5. Io I am very proud of myself and my colleges who done the presentation with me.
After lunch John sent us a little game to use our brains to see if we can get these three things (wolf, goat and cabbage) across a river in a boat that a cat was controlling.

Today was a very good day, I was nervous at first before i did the presentation but it went very well.

Untouchable-Dreamweaver

Today

It was the day of the level 3's Thursday, we had to start to create our website for our online portfolio using Dreamweaver.
I have come to the conclusion that Dreamweaver inst to be messed with it is extremely hard to get grips with, although I have somehow managed to get the background image, the title and subheadings on there and they are looking pretty good in live view.

Today I was helping Dan try and finish the group work for COM assignment 2 task 2. He managed to finish it and all that needs to be done is for me to record my podcast.

Today was very challenging but wasn't too bad as its only just level 3's.

Wednesday 6 Feb

This morning when we came in John said he wasn't sure what to open with today but he decided to show us how to use Microsoft small basic, when we were using small basic we had to make a turtle build a house by writing/giving it instructions in the small basic software.
When I first made it I had loads of lines and John then shew us how to do a loop at first it didn't work until I copied past it into a new small basic and then it worked. It was relatively easy when you get the hang of it.

the work i did today was COM assignment 2 task 1 and 2. I have almost finished assignment 2 task 1 just need to add a little more then i should be complete hopefully.
Task 2 is my podcast for our group work, i have written about a page and need to do a little more then start recording it either tonight or over the weekend if we are able to do it Monday to give me an little extra time to get it completely right.

Today was pretty easy as I knew what I wanted to do and I liked the started we did.

Monday 4th Feb

Today when we came in we were waiting for a guy called Dermot Cronin (What an AMAZING name), he came in to give us a talk about what is expected from you in job interviews. He talked about his early life for a while and an how he accomplished getting his role that he is in now.
Whilst he was here we were put into groups of 3 or 4 people and we received a piece. on this piece of paper there were four boxes with different titles which were appearance, knowledge, motivation and communication. In these boxes we had to write things down that we shouldn't do in an interview and once that was completed we discussed it as a class.

For the rest of the day we discussed what we were going to do for Assignment 2 task 2 in our groups we are all doing different way of presenting and will then combine it all together as one.
I have been doing a script for my podcast, I have done a page today and need to do a bit more to be completed i will then start recording it at home.

Today was good, I enjoyed the talk and learned a fair amount about what you should and should do at a job interview.