Assessment 3

During the semester of 201260, I was enrolled into MPI104. In this subject I learnt how to take advantage of the features offered by Google. Sign up and maintain a flickr account, blogger page, del.ici.ous page. This was all foreign to me but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Maintaining these pages were what I had to do for assignment 1. My topic for blogger was day to day life- everyday I would take a photo and describe it on my blog. For flickr I decided to share images that were close to me, ranging from my cars to my travels. With delicious I added sites that I used regularly.

For my 2nd assignment we were shown how to build a webpage from scratch. I found this very challenging but rewarding at the same time. I can say that I have built one and that I have a huge amount of respect for web designers and people in the IT field.

For our last assignments we had to maintain our pages with what ever relevant information. I continued my blogger topic, but with my flickr I uploaded photos that were relevant to this subject/ my assignments.

Throughout this semester I have learnt thru practice and reinforcement how to do something then apply it to different situations.

This subject has shown me how to do things, that I can later introduce to future students. This just widens my knowledge which gives me more power as a person and a teacher.

Assessment 2 Blog

For my website I decided to do what I'm passionate about. A lot of people don't understand why I do it but I still consider it fun. My site is about my cars; my current restoration project and my other projects. I made several pages with images and links of photos that I took, also of images that have influenced me.

My Index page introduces me as a person and says something about my back ground, then my current project page shows what I'm working on, my  other page is about what other projects I have. And then I have influential images, because in my mind its easy to see what the cars are going to turn out like, but for others its easier to show them an image rather than explain it.

I have learnt a lot from this experience, ranging from image size and location to the precise nature of code. I am most proud about this assignment for the fact that for not knowing anything about coding or IT, I have managed to produce a working website. What annoys me most out of this experience is not knowing exact codes, I know what I want to do, I just don't know how to do it! But with everything practice does make it easier. I'm looking forward to using my knowledge later on to show kids how easy it is, all you need is patience and perseverance; a very important life lesson.

Wednesday

Another ripper of a day,
well it started out this way
pitty my boss fell sick, which meant we were a person short at work

oh well it started well

Tuesday

This morning when i was having breaky before work,
i looked out of my window

pretty special i reckon

Monday

On site again today,
because we are rural we do alot of tractors
here is another one

yea its old, and OLD
oh well still works

Sunday

I had my friends 21st party,
and it was a 40's, 50's theme
i had an 'awesome' blue suit jacket,
when i was out i found this poster, it was for elvis presley's heart break hotel,
funny enuff i looked like the guy here

apart from if i had a brawd next to me like that i would be sad!

Saturday

Today we had to fit the tyres

as you can see the size of the machine when compared to my boss,
this machine picks up shipping containers

Friday

I work at a tyre shop,
and today my job was to fit industrial tyres
these tyres cost about $4500 each and weigh a shit tonne,
it took about 45mins per tyre to fit to a rim

Thursday

I had to go home for work on friday,
so i thought it would be fitting to take a photo in the same place on the drive home
just outside on young

Wednesday

Yes as embarrasing as it is when you find someone wearing your shirt
but when its your female house mate,
then its just sad

we didnt see each other for the entire morning until this photo

Tuesday

Assignment day,
this is part of my assignment for jewellery,
we had to make the box on the lathe, then design a handle
my design was inspired by celtic knots

we had to learn how to use the lathe, this is a version of what we used

Metal lathe

Monday

For a joke i bought a lazer light

this is the effect it did on my bed room roof, haha
i think its worth the $35, cheap entertainment

Sunday

I like bush walking,
so i tried to organise a bush walk of 'The Rock'
instead of taking the track we decided to go bush, 2 hours and lots of fun

this was the view from the top,
pretty special

Saturday

The sun was out, so why not enjoy it,
Also my friend finished work at 730, so she came and woke me

BBQ breakfast, yum yum

Friday

Ok we got a little bit bored, and our cleaner had messed with my room mate so she wanted to get pay back.

This is her attempt at getting her back,
we hid this in her cleaning cupboard

It worked apparently but none of us were here to see her reaction.

Thursday

Late night shopping, haha,
 my room mate works at Just Jeans so i went and visited her,
went out into the store room and found a shirt that i liked

This is the shirt that i bought for my brother, its his bday coming up.
Hope he likes it

Wednesday

Tonight is a little different to other Wed nights,
instead of drinking and going out,
my house mate and I decided to make sushi,

Yes it was amazing,
here is a link to my favourite website, helps quite a bit, cause we had no idea what to do!
Taste-sushi

Tuesday

Today, i almost thru my phone,
What is the point of having a phone if you cant use it,
and u did nothing to make it this way,
HTC i hate you atm,

There is NO pic because my phone decided to lock me out, and not let me do anything!

Monday

Yes finally finished it,
7800 words over 73 pages,
Feel sorry for the poor bugger who has to read thru it all!!!
oh well,
this is how i celebrate finishing it!

Sleeping on the couch, i had to get out of my own house, just so i could relax!

Sunday

Ok this is getting past a joke,
im SOOOO over this, but.....

i need to finish it because its due tomoz,
the end is getting nigh thou,
not sure if the end is of me or the assignment.

Saturday

Does something seem a little similar?!

Yes still at it!

Friday

This is my view, haha,
yes its a computer screen, and yes its an assignment
This one is for HRT107, introductory landscape.
We have to compile fact sheets for 25 plants.

Thursday

Well i have felt a lot worse other thur mornings!

but this one i actually got up and did some school work!
haha

Wednesday

Again this blog is proving to show many different aspects of my life,
haha

The issue for so many people, haha, knowing when to stop!
it came a little too late for this one!
she will learn

Tuesday

That feeling of working and spending all day on something and finishing the day
and thinking wow, i havent got anything done
welcome to my tuesday at Jewellery

Monday

Early morning para-olympic watching!
My parents are teachers and one of my mothers students was Kurt Fearnley
he was racing in London so we all got up to watch him race!

Read up on kurt fearnley and get inspired!

Sunday

Fathers day!
today was a little different then usual,
my pop was in Canberra so my family went down to have fathers day with him, but then i also had to move in on Sunday!!!!
oh well, really nice morning in Canberra, with a breaky, walk, BBQ lunch, then drove back to wagga

This is me trying to move back into my room!

You have to love the privacy of on campus accomodation! haha

Saturday

Afternoon snack,
fresh bread rolls, butter and honey!!!
yummy
i think i know why i put on weight when i go home!
its because im surrounded by good food, everywhere!

Friday

Cooking, yummy its always when it has to do with food!!!
Well this is my sister slow cooking the meat, yes slow cook meat, you know that its going to be good if it has been prepared in advance...
and it WAS

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/15797/chicken+chimichangas, here is my good old website, try them they are really good!

Thursday

Para-olympics!!!
This was the opening ceremony of the para-olympic games
i agree with others that the amount of support and funding that these athletes DONT get is rediculous.

http://www.paralympic.org.au/
come on and support our local athletes

Wednesday

This wednesdaywas a little different then normal wed.
Uni break,
YES i was in bed, when you go home you find yourself going to be so much earlier

These are my flags that i had travelling around USA and CANADA.
Memories

Tuesday

I got called into work today, because the boss was off racing
not that i really worry, its money to me

Monday

We left res school early,
and it just happened that my alarm went off when i was driving

this is probably not even 5 kms from where i took a photo last time i had to take one
just outside of young

Sunday

Working hard in class time
this is what our res school was like,
we were given an area to design and this was us working by ourselves to get our own unique designs

Saturday

Coffee found!
good old res school provides students with coffee
normal uni.... maybe you could take this on board

doesnt matter if its cheap coffee as long as its free and tastes ok, done!

Friday

First day of res school,
sit there and listen
easier said than done, now i know why we drink coffee, cause i would have fallen asleep for sure if i didnt find some

Because we hadnt done the required exercises for res school, we thought it would be a good idea to get together and study, and do them

studying hard, haha
got to keep hydrated

Thursday

As a good Grandson does, he calls in on his grandparents when he is home

well actually grandpa is a retired doctor and i was getting a free consult
haha, got to have some benefits

Wednesday

We had been hard at it for a long time!
so RnR was needed, haha
not

 

Movie time, Batman begins

Tuesday

After having a day or 2 off,
we thought we better get ready for res school
so here is the proof that we were doing work during our break

Monday

as the saying goes
'good from far, but.... far from good'

ohwell
this is my old car that the paint had turned to shit, so we bought some spray paint and thought we would have a go at fixing her up

 

as you can see we were concerned with safety,
well ventelated area, masks, goggles, and plenty of protection for over spray, haha
NOPE

Sunday

Sunday I participated in a hockey tournament
of course i forgot to take a photo of the games,
but this is us recovering after driving home after the day

was a very fun day

Saturday

well, it was only a matter of time

Yes i was using the toilet when the alarm went off!
i had to finish because i didnt want to drop my phone!

Friday

This friday was a little quiet, cause term is now over we have to move out of accomodation.
So we were organised and packed up our rooms before 3 so we could go over and have our final drinks for term 3.

Thursday

Recovery session:

Yes it does consist of sitting down, not moving much and watching 'the life of Brian'
oh Monty Python, you are wonderful

Wednesday

This is the last wed before end of term,
yes this also means that our assessment is tomoz, ohwell

These are my house mates

we thought we would have a little get together, no one came,

so we had fun all the same

Assessment 1

Blogger
-20 posts on my blog, my blog theme was dedicated to each day,
-here are a few links to some interesting ones
http://alexdean-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/tuesday_3.html
http://alexdean-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/wednesday.html
http://alexdean-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/saturday.html
-I have changed the template of my blog, by changing the colour, fonts, sizes, layout and backgroud picture, as apart of the assessment we had to comment on other blogs here are a few comments:
http://nickfahey-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/funniest-products-on-internet.html#comment-form
http://nickfahey-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/funniest-products-on-internet-9.html#comment-form
http://thomasdawes-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-hamburgler.html
-i also changed the gadgets that were on the blogger, i have friends in the states so i find it handy being able to see what time it is there, also i have always enjoyed sign language, so these were 2 gadgets i added. also changed the format of my template too.
-here is a link to my blogger http://alexdean-mpi104.blogspot.com.au/?""

Del icio us
-14 links
-i love food so good reciepes are always handy, i am a student so procrastination is always handy and im re-building my mini so i need spare parts
- http://www.taste.com.au/
http://www.minisport.com.au/
http://www.ebay.com.au/
- http://www.delicious.com/alexdeanmpi104

Flickr
-79 images
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdeanmpi104/7714560104/in/set-72157630907338324
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdeanmpi104/7714556884/in/set-72157630907338324
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdeanmpi104/7714565602/in/set-72157630907338324
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/84107617@N08
- these website are very well thought out program, it allows a person to access their favourites all over the world, i am finding that social media sites can be very useful even for a novice user. It allows people to remain in touch and or share their thoughts, images or experiences to anyone.

Tuesday

As being the last week before break,
we have plenty of assignments due,
Today I was working on Jewellery,

This is the view at my work bench, you can see my ring that we had to design, and the tools that i used to finish it, the dremel hand piece and different grades of sand paper.

This is a link to the dremel home page.dremel home page

Monday

Nice clear night, in fact it was a dark night as well!
so instead of doing work i decided to go for a walk

Yes it was about 10:15 but still nice night to go for a walk

As you can see the only light was from the flash of my phone, and the occasional car that came past
This was taken at the intersection of Old Narrenderra Rd and Harris Rd, near campus

Sunday

This is how every students spends their sundays isnt it!?
Doing assignments that are due that week.

Kyle and I are working hard! haha, got to catch up some time

Saturday

Lunch time, I was craving something extremely unhealthy but then a friend came round,
so i made some sandwiches.
These are famous sandwiches and many people have enjoyed their flavours!
haha

Chicken, cheese, tomato, lettuce, red onion, carrot, ham and mayonaise. YUMMY

Friday

Thankfully it was friday, and as friday should conclude with a drink we went to the Crow Bar again for happy hour.
They had pool tables, table tennis and a live band.
Good afternoon to wrap up another week at uni.

as you can see that there were alot of people recovering from their week.

Delicious

This is a website that is used for storing web addresses that you frequent.
It is designed so the user can access their important websites any where.
Below is a link to this web service.

 Delicious

Thursday

Funny enuff, the alarm went of in class, and it was MPI104 which is quite fitting.

We were going thru the material that is required for Assessment 1.
This is the information that we were given, it is located on the master blog.