Reflection for Friday 18th September

Today we started off the day by talking with peter about what we had to do today to finish our websites, we then went off and started working on what we had talked about. I had to start figuring out how to upload my groups website onto the student server, at that point I didn't have Josh's webpage because he had been having some trouble with it and he was still making it, so Chaz started helping him do that whilst I got on with the uploading :). We also had to fill out so evaluation forms and review how our own group worked which I found a bit of a challenge to do because I don't like being too harsh on people.
Once I had gotten Josh's webpage I was then able to load the website up onto the student server, which took a long time due to the fact I had to keep going back and editing the coding for all of the pictures on the website.
We were supposed to have evaluated another groups website as well but by the time I had gotten everything loaded up I didn't have sufficient time to do so :(.

My target for my next assignment is to try and communicate better with the people in my group and to try and keep the basic designs a lot simpler so it is a lot easier to follow and make the designs more complicated after creation has begun :).

Reflection on Tuesday 15th Septemeber 2009

We started the day off by meeting at the college at 9 o'clock and then getting the shuttle bus down to the Dockside Outlet Centre. Once we had arrived at the Outlet Centre we went inside to start taking the pictures of the men's wear shops that we needed for our project, it didn't take very long due to the outlet centre not being very large :) . Once we had finsihed taking photos we looked around the outlet centre and I did a bit of shopping in 'Range', we then got the shuttle bus back to the college and had a 20 minute lesson with Lucy which covered about starting this blog.
Then we had a lesson with Terrence, in which we drew a paper template for our web page design and talked about how do go about making it. I then started to create the banners and scanned the photos for the project. Josh downloaded all of the photos he took at the outlet centre onto the computer and we talked about which photo was the best for each shop :) . I very much enjoyed visiting the Dockside Outlet Centre and am enjoying the project so far :)

Reflection about Monday 14th September 2009

This morning we started off the day with an exercise to try and get us to remember each others names and for Peter to start learning our names. I enjoyed meeting the new people on my course and they all seemed very nice :). We then started to talk about the course as a whole and what the course involved; Peter took us through a powerpoint all about the course.

We then had a break from 11 until 11:30, after which we all returned to the classroom. The computers hadn't been working due to a fault in the electrical system so we weren't able to do any work on the computers and had to refer to the paper based method of work.

Peter then started telling us able our introductory assignment and split us into groups, I was grouped with Josh and Chaz :). Our project is all about promoting the Chatham Dockside Outlet Centre and my groups is specifically about the shops that sell men's wear. I was then voted group leader and had to figure out who had what skills that were necessary for this task, from this I found out that I was the only one who could use DreamWeaver properly.

Tomorrow we are going to the Dockside Outlet Centre to take pictures of all the men's wear shops and pick up some leaflets as well. I'm really looking forward to visiting the Dockside Outlet Centre tomorrow :).