Word Processing help sheet.

In class i created a practice technical manual to use the font mask tool in Photoshop. I believe this task went well, as connor went through the guide and managed to use font mask tool efficiently.

Peer Monitoring

I will ask some of my friends in class to comment and update my blog, and i will respond to their messages.

Development to date

I believe that i am struggling to keep up with my goals, set back at the start of the year. My original goal was to achieve a distinction in Unit1, however if i carry on the way i am going, this is not going to happen. I need to manage my time better, and complete set homeworks at on time and to the best i can, not just in this class but in maths as well.

Today i found out about task4 and its a presentation task, i think i will need to improve on my communication skills in order to pass this task.

Written Communication

Proof reading - I found that it is quite hard to proof read your own work, but when proof reading somebody else's work it is quite easy to pick out points that need a little improvement

In class we were put into pairs, and we had to argue an alternative view point of a certain subject. I was put in a pair with becky and decided to argue about abortion. I think this is quite hard to do becuase your arguing over something you dont agree with.

General Communication Skills

I believe the meeting the audience needs presentation went quite well for me, however the skills i need to work on are, engaging the audience more , i could do this by, giving out hand-outs, or even practical demonstrations, where i could select people in the audience and use them for an example.

Learning styles and SWOT 2.

Learning Style -
As previously stated, i am a Kinesthetic learner. At some points during this term i think i have met my learning style, for example : In Task3 i broke down each of the barriers to communication, and produced mind maps for each of them. The mind maps showed all the positives, negatives and examples of the barrier. I believe this helped me a lot throughout the task.

SWOT -
I think i have discovered new weaknesses for myself during this year. Firstly my time-management skills, i believe i don't spend enough time on my work at home.

Interpersonal skills

Observation Task -
In class we were set an activity, we had to watch a trailer of the film "Surragate" then answer questions on it, and see how much we could remember from it. I think i did ok on this activity, however i think i could improve on this skill. To do better on this activity next time i think i would take notes from the video.

Listening Task -
I think i struggled on this task the most out of all 3, Dee read a chapter from a novel and we had to take notes and then ask questions on the chapter after.

Taking notes task -
I think i did the best on this task out of the 3. We had to take notes from a chapter from a novel, then rewrite the chapter in our own words.