Thursday, 18 October 2007
Skills That Will Help Us
In this task I looked at the brief and said all the skills that were needed to help us complete our brief.
One skill that we can use in helping us to create the brief will be Microsoft word skills, we used this skill in creating other assignments, we can use it to help create our blogs and also help us to create are reports. Another skill that we can use in creating are brief is using are knowledge of the World Wide Web. With this skill we are able to publish are blogs on the internet for the world to see, another aspect of this skill is that we were able to research the internet to help us understand how others create there own briefs.An additional skill that we can use in creating are brief is our excel skills we use this skill to help us create our database for this brief. We also can use our power point skills to help us create a feasibility study presentation of the current system; included in this presentation will be the problems and improvements of the current system.The next skill that we can use to help create our blog is using Microsoft project and our skills we have in this, the first skill will be creating our project management table for this we put all our projects in order of when it will be finishing. In Microsoft project we are also able to create Gantt chart and network diagrams these can help us understand when each part of the brief needs to be completed by.
ICT skills developed and how the skills were achieved.
The ICT skills that I developed by doing this task was my Microsoft word skills because the task required me to do a lot of typing and at first it wasn’t going well and in the end it made me better to structure and word the document well
Skills acquired.
The skills I acquired by doing this task was structuring the page into a well presented document it also helped me to word my document better so in the future I will be able to word my documents better and make less mistakes.
Issues and implications.
The issues that came up while doing this task was that the wording of the text was wrong so it did not make any sense to anyone, what I did was make a new document and read my old one and go along the lines of that one but reword it to make it better and readable.
Written by Chris
Skills we have learn't before in other assignments
For one of our assignments we used a lot of PowerPoint presentations to show are findings. We also have created questionnaires and fully understand all aspects of creating one.
In another assignment we created data flow diagrams and identified there processes, from this we produced reports, which also one skill we have used, to show our finding. In addition to this we also learnt how to use excel and we created spreadsheets with charts and graphs.
For another assignment we looked at hardware of computers and how they work with this assignment we also created feasibility reports. We also used Microsoft Word thought the whole course and understand it thoroughly.
With all the skills listed I think that most of these skills can be used in creating our final brief in this assignment.
By Muhsen Sayed Ali
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Skills
One skill that we have used in helping us to create the brief was Microsoft word skills, we used this skill in creating are blogs and also helping us to create are reports. Another skill that we have used in are creating of the brief was using are knowledge of the World Wide Web. With this skill we were able to publish are blogs on the internet for the world to see, another aspect of this skill was that we were able to research the internet to help us understand how others created there own briefs.
An additional skill that we used in creating are brief was our excel skills we used this skill to help us create our database for this brief. We also used our power point skills to help us create a feasibility study presentation of the current system, included in this presentation was the problems and improvements of the current system.
The next skill that we used to help create our blog was using Microsoft project and our skills we have in this, the first skill was creating our project management table for this we put all our projects in order of when we will be finishing our project. In Microsoft project we were also able to create Gnatt chart and network diagrams these helped us understand when each part of the brief needed to be completed by.
Muhsen Sayed Ali
Friday, 5 October 2007
Questionnaire for canteen
Today we decided we wanted to start our research on functions and how they are carried out, so we went to our college’s kitchen to find out how they go about serving for functions in college. When we arrived at the canteen we found that the current manager Venda, was currently on holiday, and the pastoral manager was currently unavailable. We managed to talk to some of the canteen staff who managed to answer three of our ten questions.
We created these ten questions in order to aid us in our research into functions and how they are recorded and organised. Here are our ten questions
1. What kind of system do you use to make and take orders?
2. How do you go about making arrangements with events in the college?
3. How do you advertise your services?
4. How reliable is your current system?
5. Could you benefit from a computer based system?
6. How do you record the data from the clients using your services?
7. Who are your clients(student union, staff) using your service?
8. Do you save the data from pervious transaction?
9. Do you aim to make a profit or break even?
10. For an event do you provide clients with a big variety of food?
My role in creating these questions was also contrasting on one of my initial roles in the group. As the evaluator in the group, I evaluated the created questions and found that they were suitable for the task we have been set. Chris, as the chairman and finisher oversaw the operation and added the finishing touches to questions. Our shaper, Dean made sense of our questions as we all worked as our set roles as company workers to complete our questions.
We expanded on our questionnaire making skills, by finding relevant questions to ask for what we needed to know. However we found that the questionnaire we created was rather simple so the staff at the kitchen found it hard to fill in. Next time we will improve by making a better and improved questionnaire with open and closed questions.3