2nd year of study..
week 4 has been rather intese considering it's been a week of online learning.
perhaps the fact that ive been off for a week and done my study with people in the house to easily distract me.
however i will strive for the best that i can give and hope that it is enough to at least pass.
lucky for me my intentions for this qualification are less pressured than most as i am still podering on with pathway to take.
Onto another module.. and it's off with a reasonable start.. and certainly far better than my start on dd102 i'm happy to say.
feeling a little anixious just before my tma 01 results came in though... i had a pit of dread laying heavy in my belly anxiously waiting to be told that i wasn't good enough to be on the course. Of cousre i am good enough.. but there's always a moment in time when you wonder if you've submitted what you wanted to .. or whether you felt you completely iunderstood the questions asked of you. for the most part of TMA 01 i thoroughly enjoyed it{ yes.. i know!! }
but then the comments came to suggesst i may not have fully uinderstood a part of a question....
i read time and time again the questions to make sure i understood... and for one part i did hover and question the question asked... so... for my future learning.. if i am totally 100 per cent NOT understanding what is expected of me... i must Ask my tutor... for the part i speak of i feel has cost me a few marks... but now i fully iunderstand .. i shall not hesistate to ask for guidance.
so.. long may my future learned me commence..
i submitted my EMA 11 days before actual cut off deadline, and happy with my efforts. whatever the critique comes from this , i shall learn from but ultimately now it doesn;t matter. The Module is complete,
i gave it my best, i have learned alot along the way and for once i'm proud of myself. I know i have passed as i only need a small amount of percentage to get the base line score so anything beyond that is an absolute treat.
going relax over the summer period , recharge the old grey matter in preparation for DE100. looking forward to it.
Caio for now
yet again i seem to have missed the brief on what's expected and as a result 'm gutted. i thought was my best work turned out to be my worst in terms of marks.
.. do do.. in self pity... am for now....
.... will do my EMA and complete this am not a failure nor a quitter for it is to have tried and lost than to have never tried at all.
MIKE DROP....
Complete.. and in the system.. only going forward now..
sure i'd make it to be honest.
found myself at the first hurdle {TMA 01} and thought about quitting for a few reasons... just didn't feel adequate
but i'm glad i've stayed true to my stubborness and determination.
some say my stubborness is a hurdle.. but it's helped me to get through my studies when it's been hard for me... so i thank my stubborness and bless it on this occasion.
see you when i've completed my study for this year...
TMA 04 done.. and posted in to the system... what i best hope for now is a simple pass mark.
i have learned the hard way about getting results.. and at the very least, for this tma all i can wish for is a pass mark...
..it isn't that i don't believe in myself, nor the fact that i quite enjoyed doing this tma.. albeit in a tiswas as i never thought i'd be able to do it. But i have . Bravo to me. Bravo to me for not giving up and judt cracking on whith what i can only hope will be a pass,
time to move on.. from tma 04.. we've come a long way baby...
.. and yet still .. a little bit further to push..
happy to say im content with my result for tma 03. .. eventually...
i neeeded to take in what was being said to me where i need to improve and though i feel i have improved a great deal.. clearly it has scope for betterment..{not great english but hey,.. this is my space to say what i may }.
so.. heading towards tma 04 and hoping to improve further so i don't want to get complacent.. though im taking a few study days/ night awy as im working longer hours at the moment and it's taking it's toll{ particyualry on sleep}
i will catch up on myself through cramming .. but i will complete tma 04 and hopefully achive one further point to where i wish to be before tma 05 arrives! .. until then,.. im really quite pleased... with how everything is going right now,... but im prone to changing my mind... just saying!!
TMA 03..a toughie .. but actually towards the end i quite enjoyed the challenge.. especailly when i seriously considered quitting{eben though i'm not a quitter!!}
so.. in the jhands of the gods, i'd like to say i feel definately more confident but i don't want to be disppointed agaion if i don't get the mark i want.. so.,. weith that in mind.. iill just remain poisitve that i got through it.. i felt i covered the brief of what was being asked.... again.. time will tell..
..onwards and upwards..
i've reached a place in my head where i thought i was going to quit.. but having revisited the forums..
.. i quickly found my joi de vivre for this subject { joi de vivre probably not the correct thing but it's what came to mind, so i won't change it for now}
anyway.. a telephone call two weeks ago was rather feisty on both sides to say the least and for a long few moments i thought "this really isn't for me"
but i wanted to concentrtae on finishing work for the chriostmas period before deciding what my decision was going to be..
today i sit before you with a dtermination to myself that i will finish this course.. whatever the outcome.
so that's what i will do.
Thankyou to myself for inspiring me to carry on regardless of any attitude that lie before me and lastly to my determined spirit of truly trying my hardest. which is all anyone should ask of anyone.
ive dropped 4 points from my first assignment resulting to the fact that apprently i havent took notice of things. wrong!
i did. perhaps interpretation is paramount.
i can't speak through my disappointment.
feeling dissappointed if im honest with myself. i truly thought i'd done ok, howver my mark suggests otherwise sitting at 56%.
I knew my referencing would be a possible issue, however, i thought it was a case of copying the reference text ouit of the book..
how wrong was i !!
so.. 10th novemeber will see me sitting in at a 3 and a half hour tutorial hoping to clear up any misgivings about rerefencing... sadly only then will i feel confident enough to tackle tmq 02.
down but not quite out...
don't want to get too far ahead.. but preparing to stuydy for TMA 02.. one step ahead only...
it's 6th october.. TMA01 Submitted to RS. the only thing i'm waiting on is to post part 3 on the cluster forum... but i'm not entirely sure whetehr to just post it on the cluster forum as a one off post or to wait and see if RS sets up a collective group for such a thing, as i see a few tutors have done
Today saw me tackle the TMA 01 part 1 .
I am just drafting my 250 word before i commit to an actual write up.
But i will say this.. Never underestimate the power of the audio visual learning as they serve such a great purpose for helping to recall and collect information that you will undoubtedly call upon to find your answers.
i have found these invaluable.. and a massive lesson to learn is that definately read read and read ..
i thought i knew what certain things meant to me.. but then when it comes to it.. whether i'm overthinking it or not.. i was unsure.
patience is a virtue.. not to be rushed but to allow thinking time before commitment to paper.
That is all.
Having spent today doing the introduction assignment{ pre tma 01 teaser if you will} it's all begiining to make a little more sense now...but then it does help to read through things now doesn't it.
however, there's plenty of nooks and crannies on this website that can be still overwhelming.. so small steps taken to avoid bigger steps backwards..
so i feel that i'm still getting used to navigating around these parts.. i still get a little lost.. but that's ok right!
as long as i find my way in the end is all that matters.
though i'm oh so slightly concerned as just a week ago i had to reset my computer and i'm not sure if it's a programming issue or very slow internet but my pc keeps sticking... so i need to try and not stress about that now..
anyway i've done enough for today... logging back on tomorrow to refresh and keep updated and perhaps to lose and find my way back again.
so today is Saturday, and having spoken to a friend and work colleague about my feelings, he reassured me that there's no need to start panicking... and to just enjoy myself!!!
so.. today i do feel a little calmer, i just need to realize that i must use my pass days from work as my full time study days and to get stuck in that way.
Afterall i'm doing this for me and no one else.. the pressure i may be feeling has only come from myself.
so i will have to take out everything in my life that i'm used to having.. ie background music/radio and put myself in a learning environment to concentrate... although my hourly cuppas will have to help sustain my concentration.
ta ta for now.. i shall post on Sunday afternoon, for i am working until 3pm on Sunday,
enjoy the free time you have.
information overload already.. starting to feel a little panicky.. so i really need to try and stay focused ..focused on my reasons for doing this.
so why am i doing this? i have frequently said this is for my own fun... which in part is true.
the other and most real reason is to get my brain working ..get out of a comfortable zone and start thinking about things other than my own self... not that i'm self indulging... but because i want to mean something in life. to make a difference. To something.
STAY FOCUSED, FEEL ENERGIZED. KEEP CALM.
The one thing i've wanted to do for quite some time is to learn about people's behaviour and what causes them to do and think like they do.
Having chatted to a work friend and colleague about distance learning through the OU i decided to take the bull by the horns and grab my opportunity whilst i still can .
so i enrolled in a course that has most whetted my appetite for curiosity.
I have no idea at this stage what i have let myself in for, nor do i know where i'm heading in terms of future regarding my doing this course, but what i can say for sure is that i'm fired up, ready to engage ,yet with a little trepidation , but more so for my curiosity in how far i can push myself in thinking terms.
the course begins on my birthday week.. a week off work in which i regard as my own freshers week.. for i never work on my birthdays if i can help it... however i am already working towards starting as early as i can to prepare myself for what's to come over the forth coming winter months..
.. now.. where's my highlighters...
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