Week 8 at Wakefield College - HND Interactive Media
What a great week, from the first day to the last, it’s been nothing but fun. Having handed in my assignment I knew that I had no real work to be getting on with as far as college was concerned.
However, whenever I got a bit of spare time I found myself on my computer, doing what I really love, designing and creating websites and graphics.
Macromedia Dreamweaver is a new program to me so I spent lot of this week trying to get to grips with it, and am now starting to feel more comfortable with it. Using a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver I managed to come up with a website that I am pretty pleased with, considering it’s my first ever site made in Dreamweaver. Here is a link to the site, and comments or suggestions are always welcome.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Week 7 at Wakefield College - HND Interactive Media
Its the beginning of college week 7 and I have pretty much finished my assignment with some time to spare so I have decided to write an early blog entry for this week. Finishing early is a great feeling, although if I had finished too early I would be a bit worried that I had not used my time wisely.
Finishing this first assignment has taken a massive weight off my shoulders, and now I'm only looking forward to the next one.
Next week we wont be in college for the half term holiday, during this week I will try to take my mind of the course and anything course related, and try to have some time to myself to enjoy. Mainly because I've noticed that since the course has started I am having trouble finding a balance between self study time, my own time and work time, and this is something that I need to work on in the future, perhaps making myself a sort of timetable for each forthcoming week.
Its the beginning of college week 7 and I have pretty much finished my assignment with some time to spare so I have decided to write an early blog entry for this week. Finishing early is a great feeling, although if I had finished too early I would be a bit worried that I had not used my time wisely.
Finishing this first assignment has taken a massive weight off my shoulders, and now I'm only looking forward to the next one.
Next week we wont be in college for the half term holiday, during this week I will try to take my mind of the course and anything course related, and try to have some time to myself to enjoy. Mainly because I've noticed that since the course has started I am having trouble finding a balance between self study time, my own time and work time, and this is something that I need to work on in the future, perhaps making myself a sort of timetable for each forthcoming week.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Week 6 at Wakefield College - HND Interactive Media
If you have read my last blog entry, I must have came across as very confident about the assignment, but the first thing on Wednesday Steve dropped a bombshell. We were asked to list all of the things that we think would prevent us from passing the assignment, and this made me realize that I had a lot more work still to do, even though I have actually completed the actual assignment content itself.
Some of the things that I had not thought about were things like creating a disc cover, and the label for my folder; I have however managed to finish this, this week, and as I said in my previous blog entry “all I have left to do is to write an evaluation” and this time all I really have to do is an evaluation.
When I first looked at the assignment sheet I would have been extremely pleased with a ‘pass’ but as I had complete the majority of my ‘pass standard’ requirements I decided not to waste my time doing nothing and instead I would try to show that I am capable of a ‘merit’.
On Thursday, for our feedback meeting, we were asked to provide our assignment to a ‘Submission Standard’ and we then reflected on what we had done and how we felt about it. Personally I find the feedback meeting very useful, as it’s a chance to discuss anything that needs to be discussed in a quieter and more relaxed atmosphere.
The submission date is next Thursday and I am feeling very confident with regards to meeting it. All I have left to do is to write an evaluation, well atleast I hope thats all I have to do.
If you have read my last blog entry, I must have came across as very confident about the assignment, but the first thing on Wednesday Steve dropped a bombshell. We were asked to list all of the things that we think would prevent us from passing the assignment, and this made me realize that I had a lot more work still to do, even though I have actually completed the actual assignment content itself.
Some of the things that I had not thought about were things like creating a disc cover, and the label for my folder; I have however managed to finish this, this week, and as I said in my previous blog entry “all I have left to do is to write an evaluation” and this time all I really have to do is an evaluation.
When I first looked at the assignment sheet I would have been extremely pleased with a ‘pass’ but as I had complete the majority of my ‘pass standard’ requirements I decided not to waste my time doing nothing and instead I would try to show that I am capable of a ‘merit’.
On Thursday, for our feedback meeting, we were asked to provide our assignment to a ‘Submission Standard’ and we then reflected on what we had done and how we felt about it. Personally I find the feedback meeting very useful, as it’s a chance to discuss anything that needs to be discussed in a quieter and more relaxed atmosphere.
The submission date is next Thursday and I am feeling very confident with regards to meeting it. All I have left to do is to write an evaluation, well atleast I hope thats all I have to do.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Week 5 at Wakefield College - HND Interactive Media
Wow! What a busy week for me both in and out of college. It is Monday now, and this is actually the first time I have had some free time to turn on my computer and begin to write my blog entry for this week.
This week as far as college is concerned it has definitely been my most productive week so far, I have made all of my final screen designs on the computer and they are to a fairly high standard, better than I actually expected.
Next week Steve expects all of our assignments to be ready to “Submission Standard” which doesn’t really worry me too much as mine is pretty much complete and all I have left to do is to write an evaluation, which shouldn’t take too long.
As I have said the first assignment is nearing to the end and I feel a great deal of satisfaction to know that I can actually complete what is asked of me at Higher Education.
Bing on the next one!
Wow! What a busy week for me both in and out of college. It is Monday now, and this is actually the first time I have had some free time to turn on my computer and begin to write my blog entry for this week.
This week as far as college is concerned it has definitely been my most productive week so far, I have made all of my final screen designs on the computer and they are to a fairly high standard, better than I actually expected.
Next week Steve expects all of our assignments to be ready to “Submission Standard” which doesn’t really worry me too much as mine is pretty much complete and all I have left to do is to write an evaluation, which shouldn’t take too long.
As I have said the first assignment is nearing to the end and I feel a great deal of satisfaction to know that I can actually complete what is asked of me at Higher Education.
Bing on the next one!
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Week 4 at Wakefield College - HND Interactive Media
Another week has absolutely flown past and a lot of work has been done this week. I completed a very large proportion of the current assignment “A2 “that’s the plan” which is nice. I drew a lot of sketches of screen designs in my sketchbook and I then converted my final sketches into a digital format using a piece of software called ‘Adobe PageMaker’, software which I was unable to use before this week. We had a few hours of learning this software on Wednesday morning.
One thing that is very pleasing to know is that the whole group are working at a similar pace including me, and I’m not being left behind on anything. I believe I’ve done a lot of hard work n this assignment and I strongly believe that I am on course to reach the deadline.
Something interesting that I’ve noticed this week is that Steve many times has said “I’m just ramping you up to the hard stuff” and “I’m just easing you in” which makes me look forward with great anticipation and eagerness, but I will try not to let this have any affect on my current work.
Another week has absolutely flown past and a lot of work has been done this week. I completed a very large proportion of the current assignment “A2 “that’s the plan” which is nice. I drew a lot of sketches of screen designs in my sketchbook and I then converted my final sketches into a digital format using a piece of software called ‘Adobe PageMaker’, software which I was unable to use before this week. We had a few hours of learning this software on Wednesday morning.
One thing that is very pleasing to know is that the whole group are working at a similar pace including me, and I’m not being left behind on anything. I believe I’ve done a lot of hard work n this assignment and I strongly believe that I am on course to reach the deadline.
Something interesting that I’ve noticed this week is that Steve many times has said “I’m just ramping you up to the hard stuff” and “I’m just easing you in” which makes me look forward with great anticipation and eagerness, but I will try not to let this have any affect on my current work.
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