60th Blog - Week Thirty-five - Review of the week

Just two weeks left - and boy does it feels like two days. 


We have passed Gordon's Weblog's assessment.  While I may have twice the amount of blogs needed for the class, a couple just need a couple more to complete Gordon's class. 


I have completed the video for David's Wednesday class.  I has been a challenge getting it done, but I'm glad that I managed to get it finished.  All I need to do now is hand the video in. 


Today in Graeme's Enterprise class, the group I'm in (called Hub), I was doing the presentation of our group's app, and I think that I lucky to survive giving the presentation (with help from Cameron with words and names that were hard to say).  But yet, I think that the presentation went well.  All I need to do for Graeme now is present my Still Images Presentation to the class on Wednesday and hope that everyone enjoys it. 


All I have to do this week is do my final ECDL assessment tomorrow.  After that, hopefully, my time on the ECDL Course will be over.  If not, I'll have two weeks to do so. 


When I walk out of Longman Campus in two Thursdays time, it will be the end of my time at Longman Campus and the end of an era of Inverness College. 


I hope that our final two weeks goes well for all of us. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-five - Two and a half weeks left

Tuesday and Wednesday are done.  Just two more Tuesdays and Wednesdays and three more Thursdays.


There was an open day here at college.   went around, finding one or two of my old lecturers and I found a couple of stalls that caught my eye. 


I've had an assessment in Weblogs, and I hope that I've done well.  After the assessment, I was back to evaluating the blogs I've followed this year and this blog I've been doing this year.  I'd say that all has gone well. 


Communications may be done, but I will still come at that time and make sure that any unfinished work is done and ready to been handed in to our lecturers. 


On Friday, between 10 and 12, I'll be doing hopefully my final assessment of ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence), about Improving Productivity and hopefully I will be finished with ECDL for good. 


Just two week left after this week.  I hope that all goes well for all of us and that we finish the course on time. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-five - 90 Days till new Inverness College Campus

Today we have less than 90 days till students are allowed to in the new Inverness College Campus at Beechwood.  Hard to believe. 


I have placed a link to the Inverness College website that shows photos and videos of the progress of the building of Inverness College's new campus. 


Here's the link to Inverness College's website's page of the new campus: 
http://www.inverness.uhi.ac.uk/about-us/our-campus/new-campus


I hope and look forward being one of those students to attend the new campus. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-five - Three weeks left

Hard to believe - we just have three weeks left.  On the previous courses I have done at College, they were done when I complete the tasks in each class. 


This week looks like it will be full of assessments.  I may not remember all of them, but I do know that the last will be on Friday, and will be the last ECDL assessment I'll ever do, so wish me luck on that one. 


In Gordon's hardware and software class, I've got about half a dozen tasks left to do, all of them problem solving. 


In Graeme's Enterprise class, my group will be presenting our app. 


I just need to complete my video for David's DME class.  I just need to record my voice over the sections of the video, then I hope that will be it done. 


I hope that this week goes well for all of us. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-four - Review of the week and More Questions from Gordon

This week, and I'm sure that the next three weeks will too, feel like I have been racing Jamaica's Usain Bolt (and struggling to keep up) in a marathon.  But the course is getting there. 


The Communications class on Thursday is all done and out of the way, but I'll still be coming the usual time to make sure that the work is getting done. 


Gordon has given us some more questions on blogs in preparation for the assessment on weblogs. 

• Where does the name Blog come from?

The name "Blog" comes from what the word means: "Weblogs"

• When was the first blog created and by whom?

The first blog was created on the 17th of December 1997 by Jorn Barger. 

• How much personal information should you have on your Blog?

Very little, perhaps just your nickname.  I wouldn't put my contact details and address where anyone can see it, in case the viewers of my blog want to send bad mail to me or start to follow me around. 

• What is the general term for all the Blogs that have been created?

I'm not so sure that I understand the question Gordon's asking here.  I think that I better ask him. 


Hopefully, the assessment on blogs are multiply-choice assessment next week. 


I hope that next week and the remaining two weeks after that will go well for us all and we all do well enough to carry on next year. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-four - Three and a half weeks left

I must admit, I did have a little struggle with the hardware and software assessments, but I hope that I did enough to pass them.  I have found and done the two blog reviews needed for Gordon's Weblog class, and I am glad of it.  I just need to complete the Communications report, print it and hand it in.  For Graeme's Enterprise class, I just have the presentation to prepare for. 


I hope that the rest of the week and the remaining three weeks goes well for all of us on the course. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-four - End of a day of assessments

The assessments from Gordon has give me rather mixed feelings.  The first assessment missed the pass mark by just two marks.  I just hope that the second assessment went well, I'll find out tomorrow hopefully. 


It looks like Gordon's Weblogs class tomorrow will be shared by Graeme's Enterprise class so I could be doing my group's presentation tomorrow, I just need to go over it before long and be ready for doing the presentation.  I have done one of the last two blogs to do, so now I have one more to do before the course ends.  Gordon says that if we need to come more during the week, it can be alright to do so, just have to make sure that Gordon knows when and what I'll be doing when I'm in. 


Paula's class project is almost finished, I think that just need to download to somebody and wait for the results of my work. 


I hope that the rest of the week goes well. 


Wish all luck. 

Week Thirty-four - Final four weeks begins

Just four weeks of the course left - and I still can't get it in my head of how short these last four weeks will be. 


The new college campus is now open to the public, but there is just over 95 days left before any students can enter to study.  I look forward to being one of them. 


Today we have an assessment with Gordon and I hope that I will do well in it.  Gordon has sent us some PAT Forms to fill in before the course ends that will give Gordon and our lecturers an idea of what we have achieved on the course and what's in store for us. 


In Graeme's Still Images tomorrow we will be presenting our works to Graeme and the rest of the class (I hope that mine goes well).  Then in Graeme's Enterprise class on Thursday, we will present our apps to Graeme and the class (I'll be doing my group's). 


I have an idea of what I need for David's class.  I just need to go around Inverness, take a few photos and recordings and then put them in a video or a presentation before the course ends. 


I hope this week goes well for us all. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-three - Review of the week

End of the week - just four more to go for the course. 


Today, some of us, not all, were to the Capgemini talk in G20 lecturer theatre and listened how the organisation has helped people find apprenticeships in the IT work area of business.  The two sites nearest to Inverness are Inverness's Retail Park on the eastern side near the coats and in Nairn (opposite of where Salisbury's is, I'll have to keep an eye out for the building next time I pass Nairn to go to Brodie Castle and its grounds). 


The report I have been doing for the Communications class on the 2004 video game Sid Meier's Pirates! is all but done.  I just need to double check to number of words for the report and ask if the report is to be emailed or printed. 


I have already accepted a conditional offer for the NC Digital Media Level 6 course for next year, just have to do my best for this course, wait and hope for the best.  I hope to at least reach the HNC level as close as possible, after that, we'll see how I get on then decide whether or not to leave Inverness College.  But, as I have already said, we'll see. 


I hope that next week will go well for all of us and that I will return for another year at college, and experience the old campuses (Midmills and Longman) and the new (Beechwood). 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-three - Review of the week so far

I have past my 50th Blog - Unbelievable!


For the Weblogs class, I'm all up to date as I've past the 30 Blog mark needed for the class.  Gordon has asked me to do two blog reviews so I will have a total of five blog reviews done for the class - but, apart from the ones I've done, I know no more.  I could do with some blogs I could review for Gordon before the course ends on the 11th of next month. 


We, the course has been asked to come in early tomorrow morning for a class at 9.20am in the G20 Lecture Theatre, then there's the Communications class at 11, and we will be done for the day. 


For Graeme, all of my Still Images are done and ready to be presented for Graeme to see.  Next week we have a presentation for the Enterprise class of out app, and I've been asked by the group I'm in to do the presentation for the group, and I agreed to do it. 


I hope that tomorrow and next week goes well for us all. 


Wish us all luck. 

50th Blog Post - Week Thirty-three - Five weeks left

News Flash!: Five weeks left! Barely over a month left of the course - Unbelievable!


This my 50th blog post - Just as Unbelievable!




Last week, we went around Inverness, answering a questionnaire set by our lecturers and taking photos as proof of our location and answers.  One of the questions asked us to list the candidates of the recent general-election.  As we went round listing them and their parties, I attempted to explain the goals of the parties, and know the SNP wanted Scotland out of the UK, but are members of the UK Parliament in London (now the third largest party in Westminster, behind the Conservatives Party and the Labour Party), and how the UKIP (UK Independence Party) wants the UK out of the EU, its leader, Nigel Farage, is a member of the EU Parliament. 


This morning we have done a survey set up the college asking what we think of the college and the courses we are studying (in our case Computing courses).  Next week we have two assessments for Gordon on the Computers Software and Hardware classes. 


To finish Task 6, I just to find an IPMI and PCI Serial Port Drivers for the computer I'm using.  Finding them is slightly easy, downloading them onto the computer may be harder.  I hope that I will pull through. 


Paula's class has changed again - D6.  It's the room that everyone complains of the "dirty" keyboards.  I don't mind the keyboards, as I grew with the type of keyboards (a cleaner one though I must admit).  I think the keyboards are similar to those from the 80s and 90s. 


We've been asked to come in earlier on Thursday morning for a Video Conference of some kind, at least I will be in for Communications after that. 


I hope that this week goes well for all of us. 


Wish us all luck. 

Week Thirty-two - The Germans are coming to Inverness College

Six weeks to go! I can't believe it!


Tomorrow, German students from Inverness's German twin city, Augsburg, Bavaria, southern Germany, where the father of the infamous Mozart once lived, will be arriving and we've been asked to help them on their citizenship/ social media project - just I don't know what to do exactly.  Maybe it's a good thing that normal classes are not on tomorrow. 


Tomorrow morning, I have a dentist appointment in the morning so I will miss the start of our meeting of the German students, but I hope that I won't be too late for the start in the morning. 


This won't be the first time I've met German students from Augsburg.  When I was studying NQ IT Apps between Jan and June 2011, one of the classes I was doing was called Event Organisation, and we were asked to organise an event for the German students.  Everyone (but me) spent most of the classes arguing with our lecturer, Jodie MacDonald.  The arguments began after the class, suggested taking the German students to Inverness Castle, only to be told by Jodie that the only way into the castle was only if we were in trouble with the law, for Inverness Castle is where the Sheriff Court is.  Everyone then asked: "Well why do people come to take photos of the castle, if it's not a tourist attraction?" Eventually, we managed to organise an re-enactor to come and explain to the Germans about the Jacobites and the Battle of Culloden. 


I hope that this week goes well for all of us and can help the visiting German students in any way we can. 


Wish us all luck.