Lab session Eleven

In this Lab session we talked about the presentation element of coursework three, of how we would have to give a three slide powerpoint presentation on our report. After this our lab turour came round and looked at the final versions of both our reports and our blogs, i was completely up to date so everything was fine with me.

I learnt about what makes a good presentation, such as looking at the audience instead of staring down at the words on a screen behind us or at a paper with the words we'd be reading out.

Lab Session Seven

This lab took place during a reading week, so I didn’t have a lab session, what I did instead of my lab was to catch up on my blog. I caught up with my posts, and also started to use both labels (or as they're more widely known as tags) and gadgets (or as they're more widely known as plugins)

I learnt about major things, the use of labels on my blog posts which can be used to allow my reader to filter through my posts and only pick the ones that are labelled with a certain buzzword. I also learnt about gadgets and how they can be used to add more content to your blog, I decided to use a technology news gadget.

Lab Session Five

In lab five, we had a presentation about both of coursework two and coursework three. During this, we talked in more detail about what may make a person not want to read your blog, on both the grammatical side and the design choices side of things. We also had a discussion on what our research for coursework two could be about, and began to look through the mark scheme and format for it. 

I learned about the poor design choices that can put a reader off from reading your blog, such as having unreadable writing, clashing colours, GIFs and music automatically paying the background. i also found out the definitions of the words that would make the heading for coursework two, such as abstract and appendix.

Lab Session Four

In lab four, we moved on from coursework one and started our blogs for coursework three. Before this however, we were given a PowerPoint presentation about the nature of blogging in order to prepare us for our task. To finish off, we were given a talk about coursework two and shown examples of the type of questions we could use.

I learned how to set up my own blog and about the different companies the offered to host them, including Blogger which i eventually ended up using. I also got more info on the Harvard referencing system and how to use citations properly in my report.