Wednesday 26th January 2011

Wednesday 19th January 2011

In tutorial we all had a one on one discussion about our assignment deadlines in case we hadn't met some deadlines but my work is fairly up to date so it wasn't a long discussion and my attendance is good overall as I’m in practically everyday. Then the rest of the time we could do any work we were outstanding on but I focused more on Databases as the deadline was in 2 days from then and I managed to hand in on time but it still needs a few minor adjustments to achieve a merit and maybe a distinction.

Thursday 20th January 2011

In programming I was given back my first assignment and was given feedback on to improve the result of it was I needed to of included a glossary of terms defining key terms in my own words and also I did two of the tasks wrong as they were class tasks so I need to adapt them and that in for a future date. I started to resolve the issues but didn't get round to completing it so might try and focus on it next lesson.

In information systems we started P3 of the assignment criteria which continues from a presentation we did the previous lesson about sources of information. I had r research most of it on the internet as I don't understand or enjoy the lesson that much.

Monday 24th January 2011

To start this week we started a new unit which was called "Software development" as the database assignment deadline was last Thursday but only some of the class including me managed to hand it on time. So on the introduction to software development we went through the specification and then started to discuss the programming side of it so our first task was to do step by step instructions on to making your favourite food.

Wednesday 5th January 2010

Tuesday 4th January
In graphics, I had completed assignment 2, over the Christmas vacation then when we had got back we were given the brief of assignment 3, then made a start for the last 2 hours of the lesson, I made progress by recording stages of my logo in Adobe Illustrator in a word document, then had to make pick one out of 6 of my designs. Late into the lesson I had chosen one which I saw potential in so then drafted it into Adobe Photoshop after I resolved some of the problems I had with the setting as it appeared to be very jagged as its a bitmap application, as I understand it more and I feel it will look a lot better by applying layers in, I made a quick start to show what I did to the class by applying it in shadow and decreasing the opacity of the logo to make the name of the magazine stand out.


Wednesday 5th January
In hardware, we were learning about the windows firewall of the purposes of it which I didn't realise that it made such a difference as its so simple to turn on and off, I knew a fair bit about it anyway from my other knowledge but never looked at it in real detail this was for the first half of the lesson. The second half was far more practical as we took the wires which we got from last lesson and our task was to cut it down and put the wires in a certain order for wiring a cable this was extremely frustrating by trying to cut the plastic cover off and I had failed so many times but as the end of lesson got nearer I had much more luck as also I had been given some good advice from my peers.