New years resolution

With Christmas passed I can now think ahead to the New Year and what it brings for me.
First thing is to return to college and finish were I left off. That means, keep up the good attendance, pass assessments and return in September for the HNC in either software or Web development.

So my new years resolution is to be on a HNC course this time next year.

Anyway Happy New Year when I comes!!!

Christmas day wonder

Taking a walk after Christmas lunch yesterday.

A nice view ahead

Somewhere to hide

What’s in the distance?

The long dirt track ahead

The day draws to a close judging by the sunset

Christmas

As Christmas is here I would like to wish all my blog readers a merry Christmas.

College round up

Well I have reached the Christmas holiday and all has gone well with college so far, web development assessments have been submitted to the tutor and software development write ups have been completed. Completing all my assessments to date gives me a huge sense of relief, knowing I will find the last three weeks of block one a whole lot easier.

So my task for the next two weeks is revising for assessments after Christmas.

Good blogging

The use of Microsoft Word is very common when I write my blog entry as it is equipped with a spell checker, meaning I can pretty much guarantee my blog is at its best. I try to vary my subjects in order to make my blog more appealing to the whole blogging community, and not to just a small area.

Below is a run down of how I blog and the process I taking in doing it.

Input

Sitting back and thinking of ideas of what I can blog about.

Going out with my camera and taking photos of the landscape and things I feel people may find interesting. Then taking my experiences home and blog about them, so the readers can see how my college went the day the post was published.


Processing

Finding sources of interesting information so I can keep my blog up to date in order to pass the practical assessment.

Output

Arriving home and writing about my college day, for example my assessments, how my classes went, did I learn anything new?

Writing about college tasks.

For example:

• Oliver Cromwell
  
• Interview with George Stephenson

Publishing and writing about images I have taken with either my mobile or digital camera.

Feedback

Often I revisit my blog entries to see whether they can be expanded further, do they inspire me to blog about something similar? For example the North East of Scotland water stream entry helped me write the Fast flowing river entry.

My conclusion is to have a blog that is:

fit for the purpose

show entries of information people enjoy reading

And most of all pass the assessment.

Edinburgh castle

Think these pictures speak for themselves

Edinburgh castle as seen from Princes Street Gardens

Robert The Bruce statue, situated at the castle entrance

The stained glass in the great hall

Edinburgh castle with nor loch in foreground, around 1780

Computer hardware and Spreadsheets return

In the computer hardware class today I removed and installed a floppy drive, although floppy drives is something not important, you need to know about floppy drives. Next was to remove and install the CD Rom drive, next was to check they both worked correctly. Then went down to the college IT centre and wrote up some of the tasks I have completed since starting college, things like the operating system, ram, printers. After computer hardware was the spreadsheets assessment, different to what I first thought it would be. Had to create a spreadsheet design in Microsoft word, then transfer the information wrote in word to excel. Then fill in the necessary data we needed to create a spreadsheet with the correct formulas, all went well though.