Week three of pre-study studies. This week it has been more of a struggle to keep focus on the goal. Some week’s work and personal commitments will lean in the way of education. It has taught me a valuable and timely lesson about the management of my studying. For me this was a positive lesson with ten days to go before it really starts, rather than ten days to go before my final work is due in.
I began the week wanting to get stuck into the sense guide, and did in part. Then got distracted with wanting to get more into the weekly work, and ended up half way through both, not the desired outcome for either. I really enjoy the sense tasks but find it hard to carry around the board on the train and at work. I ended up leaving it at home and not being able to complete some of the tasks in the guide. I now know that I need to have structured time at home for those sorts of actives and leave the module studies for when I’m traveling or have time at work.
The modules are getting a little meatier now with more maths to concentrate on and a lot more programming, if not fairly basic stuff. With my previous self-taught experiences of web design, tags, attributes and objects aren’t new to me but it’s always good to get an academic stand point of them.
My learning outcomes from this week are;
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Binary logic and George Boole
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Analogue and discrete values
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Web addresses, severs, wiki’s, blogs and forums
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HTML and XML
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Using the sense board
I have also tackled the first iCMA 51, found it very easy in parts and quite challenging in others. It’s given me a greater idea of what I need to have a more in-depth look at.
Last but no means least I digitally met my tutor, Rev Martin Whiffen. We have exchanged a few email and discussed a few issues. Looking forward to being able to get on the tutor group forum and also meeting Martin and the others in a few weeks in Preston, even if it’s more than two hours traveling on the train. This week I’m going to get session three and four finished and then with my four days off around next weekend, I will concentrate of finishing off the sense tutorials.