On the Job Evaluation
The second week of this assignment has gone well. The web plan is complete and the designs for the web pages are near completion. The process of managing the project is something that I am starting to find easier than I did last week and after extra clarification I have made a check list for everything that needs to be handed in for the pass and merit criteria. Now that I have this on paper, it makes the project seem less daunting.
To help me manage the project I am using MS Project. I have only ever used this once before, but it was easy to get into. Everyone in the team is updating there own version of this, which will mean that parts of 9.1 and 9.2 are covered by this one thing. I’m going to use this software for the time management of my other projects.
The project is on schedule which gives me and the members of my team time to do referral work.
6 Month Learning Plan
I have made a contract for the 6 month learning plan, on this I have listed a number of PHP related skills and when I hope to achieve them. I choose to learn PHP because of the amount of things that can be done with it. Because it is server side, users don’t need to install any extra software. This means PHP can do many things that needed plug-ins with other software.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Top Dog
Hello all,
It’s been an interesting week since my last entry. The group assignment has been handed out and the groups have been decided. The group consists of me, Adam and Luke and after a vote it was decided that I would be the Project Manager.
This to me proves that democracy doesn’t work and a much fairer system such as Communism should be adopted.
Only joking, I was and still am happy to do the job. The amount of extra work the Project Manager has to do is currently blowing my mind, its strange delegating work that you would normally do you self to team members. Then you have to worry if the work is up to the standard that is normally produced by yourself, knowing that it its not good enough as the P.M its your problem.
I have confidence in my team and I know they will produce the goods. The mini deadline I have imposed for this week is to have a finished web plan. From this on Monday we can start the design process and by Tuesday have a number of designs to show the client.
The project is making a website that has pages for Interactive Media, Photography and Fine Art. The brief is very open and Andrew (the client) has given us the say in the direction the site goes. With this in mind, we are going to students on the courses and asking them what they want.
Today I went to the art department and completed some questionnaires with the art students. This has given me a lot of ideas about the direction the page should be taken in and the response to some of my ideas was good.
The main thing they wanted to see was examples of work done on the course, photos of the trips they make and a lot more information than on the current site. Most of them only use computers for research and I think from this the site should look as much like print work as possible.
On Thursday either my self or Luke/Adam will ask the first year Interactive Media and the Photography students the same questions. I think the Photography students will be fairly computer literate as will (should) the Interactive Media ones.
The experience of Project Management has been an interesting one so far and as long as I keep on top of the work load it shouldn’t be one that I don’t enjoy.
Thanks, Dale
It’s been an interesting week since my last entry. The group assignment has been handed out and the groups have been decided. The group consists of me, Adam and Luke and after a vote it was decided that I would be the Project Manager.
This to me proves that democracy doesn’t work and a much fairer system such as Communism should be adopted.
Only joking, I was and still am happy to do the job. The amount of extra work the Project Manager has to do is currently blowing my mind, its strange delegating work that you would normally do you self to team members. Then you have to worry if the work is up to the standard that is normally produced by yourself, knowing that it its not good enough as the P.M its your problem.
I have confidence in my team and I know they will produce the goods. The mini deadline I have imposed for this week is to have a finished web plan. From this on Monday we can start the design process and by Tuesday have a number of designs to show the client.
The project is making a website that has pages for Interactive Media, Photography and Fine Art. The brief is very open and Andrew (the client) has given us the say in the direction the site goes. With this in mind, we are going to students on the courses and asking them what they want.
Today I went to the art department and completed some questionnaires with the art students. This has given me a lot of ideas about the direction the page should be taken in and the response to some of my ideas was good.
The main thing they wanted to see was examples of work done on the course, photos of the trips they make and a lot more information than on the current site. Most of them only use computers for research and I think from this the site should look as much like print work as possible.
On Thursday either my self or Luke/Adam will ask the first year Interactive Media and the Photography students the same questions. I think the Photography students will be fairly computer literate as will (should) the Interactive Media ones.
The experience of Project Management has been an interesting one so far and as long as I keep on top of the work load it shouldn’t be one that I don’t enjoy.
Thanks, Dale
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Dale gets a Paddlin’
How do,
After a nice chat about the quality of my blog entries, this week’s entry is going to be a long and interesting one. After taking a look at some of the first-years blogs and seeing the different way they are approaching the blog has made me realise that mine is not up to scratch.
From now on I will give a more detailed evaluation of the work I have produced and start to plan what I will be doing for the week ahead. I will also show or link to sites or work that I like and comment on them.
On Tuesday I handed in the A10 assignment “Culture Vulture”. I found parts of this assignment difficult, especially the reverse design process. Before the assignment I would have thought having almost infinite scope for a design would have helped.
This was not the case and rather than help it made things harder. I would come up with ideas and then quickly discard them as other ideas came into my head. I now see how important an in-depth brief is and feel this is a lesson learnt, particularly for the based client projects.
The assignment was to produce a surface design pattern for an unknown object. This object was an Adidas trainer and was part of a competition, the winner having the design produced and available to buy.
I based my design on the work of Piet Mondrian, as I felt it work transfer well to any medium and the amount of white space would mean I could include any company logo’s ect. on the design.
After a nice chat about the quality of my blog entries, this week’s entry is going to be a long and interesting one. After taking a look at some of the first-years blogs and seeing the different way they are approaching the blog has made me realise that mine is not up to scratch.
From now on I will give a more detailed evaluation of the work I have produced and start to plan what I will be doing for the week ahead. I will also show or link to sites or work that I like and comment on them.
On Tuesday I handed in the A10 assignment “Culture Vulture”. I found parts of this assignment difficult, especially the reverse design process. Before the assignment I would have thought having almost infinite scope for a design would have helped.
This was not the case and rather than help it made things harder. I would come up with ideas and then quickly discard them as other ideas came into my head. I now see how important an in-depth brief is and feel this is a lesson learnt, particularly for the based client projects.
The assignment was to produce a surface design pattern for an unknown object. This object was an Adidas trainer and was part of a competition, the winner having the design produced and available to buy.
I based my design on the work of Piet Mondrian, as I felt it work transfer well to any medium and the amount of white space would mean I could include any company logo’s ect. on the design.
The other two assignments haven’t had as much work on them as I would have liked. By next Tuesday (21st) I will have completed both web plans and will post my time planning sheets, to show the improved use of my time outside college.
Also thanks to anyone who has posted a comment on my blog and I will get round to posting a response on yours.
Thanks for reading, Dale.
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