In this last four weeks I have learnt many things.
Networking
I have learnt many things during the past three weeks. I have learnt how to configure a router (obviously only basic things as this course I am on is the fundamentals course), and recapped on different types of networks such as bus and star networks and their attributes and protocols. I am still getting on really well in this lesson (I like to think!) and am finding the new criteria quite easy to understand.
Programming
I have learnt only a few new things in this lesson. The best thing was that I made a plane fly across the screen, apart form the fact that when I actually looked at it properly, I realised that the plane was facing the other way around and technically flying backwards! I am still enjoying this lesson.
Key Skills
In key skills, we are still working on our major task but today we have started revising for our test in January. We are practicing Access mostly but also Word and Excel which I find really easy but made a really, really simple mistake today which I was really annoyed about. I still like this lesson and get on fine with the teacher.
Organisational Systems Security
In this lesson I am still getting on well with. I have completed my task 1 and 2 and now to completed the criteria P3 and P4 we have to do a presentation to the whole class which I am really not looking forward to. This is really what we have been focusing on for the last three to four weeks.
Computer Systems
In this lesson I am still getting on all right with it, but I have completed task 1 and that took me such a long time but now I am working on task 2 and that is going to take even longer. I thought this lesson would be more interesting but I have learnt just to get on with it no matter what because I know that I have got to pass this subject to get my qualification!
Advanced Database Skills
In the lesson we are now covering how to validate things in Access and many more which I have already covered so to me, the lesson isn’t that interesting. But, now I have finished task 1 and am working on task 2 there is something to do.
Website Management and Production
We recently have been learning how to use Cascading Style Sheets. I found this really interesting as it save putting tags in for every line of code you want to format.
Communication and Employability Skills
Recently we learnt about skills that are valued by employers and why they are. I identified these and am now much more aware about what employers want than what I was before.
Also, I was asked earlier to choose my strand choice, whether I was going down the software or networking route. This is a hard decision but I have chosen networking for the minute and am still not total sure that I have chosen the right one but luckily I am going to be able to change my mind up until January.
