Bloginator 2: Judgement Blog

Hi,

So the rest of the week before half term, the first piece of work I got done was the essay for Culture Vulture, which I did about the Nintendo Game Boy. I found that because I had made a detailed essay plan showing exactly what I was going to write about the essay was pretty straight forward. I found this essay a lot more interesting to write than the ones on TheBiz assignment, possibly due to the fact I regularly play games on my Game Boy and newly purchased Nintendo DS. The essay plan definitely helped though and I feel this is the best essay I have written in terms of structure. Plus I thoroughly researched the subject beforehand in a range of sources.

The next thing on my list is to continue getting stuck into the web plan for my digital portfolio for the iMe assignment. I hope to make this web plan a lot more detailed than my previous web plans so all the decisions are made regarding the website, and I don’t have to ‘wing’ anything upon creation of it.

Things left to do:

• Complete rest of Web Plan
• Proposal for 6 month learning plan
• Action Plan for Johns session upon returning from half term

Thanks for reading,
Dave

Blogger The Barbarian

Hey,

This week the majority of my time was spent completing the 22.1 part of the A8 CiSSy assignment. It wasn’t as confusing as I originally suspected and once I sat down and did it, it didn’t take too long as my research was substantial enough. After receiving feedback on it from John there are a few things I need to look at before writing the revised draft. These are:

• The way I have structured the essay
• The reading ease, and language used
• Expanding upon examples, not just fonts
• A more in depth conclusion drawing back to the introduction

The other activity I did over the last week at home was to research three potential subjects for the Culture Vulture assignment. The ones I came up with weren’t really suitable so on Monday I researched a little more and came up with the subject of doing the Nintendo Gameboy. Before I chose that I was deciding between the Nintendo Gameboy and the Sony Walkman. I’m quite happy with this choice as I think there is plenty to write about, and also from doing research on the subject I’ve found a fair bit more to include than I originally realised. Also I seem to be enjoying this assignment more than the last, due to the fact it is more interesting to research and write about.

The first part of the Culture Vulture assignment (the essay) must be completed for when I return from half term. I am very confident this will be completed.

This week at home I plan to continue going through the CSS tutorial which I started earlier today, I think if I do this and other similar tutorials it will set me on the right course for understanding CSS.

I have received a list of things to have completed by the end of my half term ‘break’ from John, these are:

For the CiSSy assignment:

• Rewrite Task 1 (22.1) as per feedback.
• Complete web plan.

And for the iMe assignment:

• Research as per BBC web site
• Complete web plan
• Complete blog entry for week off.

And then also complete a proposal for a 6 month learning plan

And one final task of completing an Action Plan for the session after I return.

Turns out I have quite the opposite of a half term break ahead.

Thanks for reading,
Dave

TimeBlog

Hey,

This week was more relaxed than I thought it would be having the A9 deadline mainly due to the weekly deadlines we had previously, most of the work was already completed. To the first three parts of A9 all I needed to do was to make some minor amendments. Due to this I could afford to have a day off on my birthday which was Wednesday.

Got the assignment handed in this morning around 11:40am, I spent the morning just printing it and putting it together as I completed all the work in my self study time. I am confident I have included everything I need to do in it.

This week i'll mostly be concentrating on the 22.1 part of the CiSSy assignment as the mini deadline for it is Tuesday.

Things to do for next week:

• CiSSy 22.1 essay on CSS1, 2, and 2.1
• Research 3 20th century design icons
• Secure some better folder organisation
• Web Plan for iMe
• More rough sketches for iMe after web plan has been completed.

Thanks for reading.

After an email from Steve it was brought to my attention I forgot to upload this week’s entry, so here it is a bit late.

Big Trouble In Little Blog

Hey

My time planning during the last week all went to hell due to not getting as much as I wanted to get done before I went to the Bloodstock festival for a couple days, leaving me Sunday to do more than I intended to be doing. I have since got back onto track though and have the 6.3 part of TheBiz done.

I’m comfortable I will get all the TheBiz assignment completed for its deadline next week on Tuesday 10th October 12 noon as I have the 6.4 part of it well planned out as to what I will be writing. Then it’s just a matter of making any small amendments I need to do and collating it ready for handing in.

Given the choice whether to come into college next Monday or have a ‘home study’ day I decided I would rather come into college, mainly because if I did stay at home I probably wouldn’t even wake up till 1pm, and that’s half of the day gone.

During the week at home I put just over an hours work into researching CSS’ 1 and 2 and found I did not really understand a lot of it. I mentioned this to John and he explained the answer to any questions I had. Then this was further cleared up this afternoon when we actually made something basic in CSS. This was the first time I had ever used CSS for the layout of a website and it was perhaps a little simpler than I thought, but I’ll have to have a play around and see if I can make anything on my own.

My priority for this week’s home study is going to be TheBiz assignment due to its impending deadline but I will most certainly be fitting in some time for Johns assignments later in the week. But I want to get the A9 assignment all completed and arranged ready for hand in as soon as possible.

For next week I will have completed:

• Assignment A9 [For Tuesday 10th Oct 12noon]
• A9 - 6.4 Executive Summary of a Business Plan
• A9 - Small amendments to 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3.
• Research BBC Reboot website and evaluated gallery of entries.
• Research other people’s Digital Portfolios for inspirational/evaluative purposes.
• Weekly planning sheet [To be completed tonight (Tuesday 3rd Oct)]
• Weekly blog entry.

Thanks for reading.

Dave.