This is my second blog post. I will discuss what I have learnt, what affects my learning and how I could improve my performance since my last blog post.
Since my last blog post I have moved down to the certificate group and there for I do 3 less lessons than when I was in Diploma those are: Organisations to security and 2 Networking lessons (but I still do networking lessons so I will still include that subject.)
Key Skills
In Key Skills we started our assignment, it isn’t difficult and I think I will be able to do it relatively quickly. I am doing the assignment quickly and finding it easy, this lesson currently motivates me because this is a major part of my grade and I want to do well in this course. I do sometimes talk to my friends in this lesson so to improve me performance I could just sit down and do my work and not get distracted by my friends.
Communication & Employability Skills for IT
Some of the new things I have learned in this lesson are what employers look for in an employee and the sort of barriers that can affect communication. I find this quite an interesting lesson so I do concentrate and it will be very useful later in life. I’ve found in this lesson because there is a lot of typing I sometimes drift off and not concentrate, so I should keep in mind the faster and better the quality of my work the quicker I can finish this lesson this will motivate me and help me improve my performance.
Website Production & Management
In this Unit we have also started our assignment the first task wasn’t to difficult and I think I did well but I feel some of the next tasks could be harder. I’ve also learnt how to code JavaScript which will be useful in later tasks of my assignment. For the past couple of weeks our teacher hasn’t been there so we either didn’t have to go to lesson or we had a substitute which has affected my learning by not learning as much as I could of. Again in this lesson I tend to get distracted by my friends so I should just concentrate and aim for distinctions.
Networking
Because I have moved down to certificate I have moved into a different networking class I enjoy this class more than my old one mainly because of the teaching method and I feel I have done better on my assignment. Last week the program we where using kept crashing our computers therefore we couldn’t use it and we just listened to the teacher this didn’t give me the full experience of the program so I will go home and download it and do it at home.
Advanced Database Skills
At first I had difficulty with the assignment but now I have understood it and I feel I have done quite well. In this lesson I feel I have learnt the most than in any other lesson I have learnt so much about databases. Sometimes my peers can distract me by sometimes doing silly thing in this lesson and the teacher gets mad this affects my learning and I should tell my peers to stop to improve my performance.
Computer Systems
We have also started our assignment in this unit I do find the work more difficult than in other lessons but I find it quite interesting learning about what’s in the computer. That fact that the work can sometimes be hard affects my learning I sometimes get bored and cant concentrate, to improve my performance I need to concentrate more.
Principles of Software design and development
I do enjoy this lesson because I find the things we learn are interesting but the assignment we are doing is quite hard. Sometimes the teacher can get mad if we don’t know something or we do something wrong this affects my learning because it does not motivate me to do well but I try to concentrate anyway also I get distracted by my friends as well. Motivation is the key to improve my performance in this lesson because this is the kind of thing I would like to do in the future.
