Monday, 18 October 2010
Report Assignment
After much deliberation, I have decided to base my report on internet security and privacy, and I perhaps may narrow this down to internet privacy and security on social networking. I believe this to be a key topic and important issue within today's society and have already begun to gather various newspaper articles and websites in relation to this topic.
Monday, 4 October 2010
Myers Briggs Type Indicator-My Personality Type
After completing the Myers Briggs Type Indicator test, as stated on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator Website, my personality type is described as follows:
INTJ
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance – for themselves and others.
The INTJ type group represents 7%.
I believe this to be a fair analysis and resembles my personality type fairly well, particularly the reference to my organizational skills and commitment to jobs I have been made responsible for.
INTJ
Have original minds and great drive for implementing their ideas and achieving their goals. Quickly see patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When committed, organize a job and carry it through. Skeptical and independent, have high standards of competence and performance – for themselves and others.
The INTJ type group represents 7%.
I believe this to be a fair analysis and resembles my personality type fairly well, particularly the reference to my organizational skills and commitment to jobs I have been made responsible for.
Friday, 24 September 2010
About Me
Hi everyone.
My name is Kheira, and I am currently studying computing at Anglia Ruskin University. Mainly, it is the versatility of the course that most enticed me to apply. My initial experience of computing in a work environment began in year 11 when I shadowed a professional with a project to design and implement a new Windows Active Directory from Windows NT. This entailed finding and analysing hardware to replace the old system, migrating users from Windows NT0.4 domain to the new Windows 2000 Active Directory, and migrating network printers to the new system. The work proved to be extremely beneficial, as I was able to gain a deeper insight in to the infrastructure user administration, and enabled me to develop my networking and project management skills. This then fuelled my ever-growing interest in programming, as I came to understand that the operating systems are written in the C programme language. I then started experimenting with Visual Basic to automate procedures for operating systems, and in addition to this, I have recently began to study C++. In my opinion, programming in particular is a stimulating, creative process and I would love the opportunity to pursue this pastime, that I thoroughly enjoy, and one day perhaps become a programme developer. However, with the versatility and nature of the field I believe if I am to be successful during the course over my three year degree, I will leave university with a wide spectrum of choices within the field. Especially now having started my studies, I have come to realise that there are many more topics within computing that I find just as interesting and so look forward to the many opportunities I hope will come with a lot of hard work and determination!
My name is Kheira, and I am currently studying computing at Anglia Ruskin University. Mainly, it is the versatility of the course that most enticed me to apply. My initial experience of computing in a work environment began in year 11 when I shadowed a professional with a project to design and implement a new Windows Active Directory from Windows NT. This entailed finding and analysing hardware to replace the old system, migrating users from Windows NT0.4 domain to the new Windows 2000 Active Directory, and migrating network printers to the new system. The work proved to be extremely beneficial, as I was able to gain a deeper insight in to the infrastructure user administration, and enabled me to develop my networking and project management skills. This then fuelled my ever-growing interest in programming, as I came to understand that the operating systems are written in the C programme language. I then started experimenting with Visual Basic to automate procedures for operating systems, and in addition to this, I have recently began to study C++. In my opinion, programming in particular is a stimulating, creative process and I would love the opportunity to pursue this pastime, that I thoroughly enjoy, and one day perhaps become a programme developer. However, with the versatility and nature of the field I believe if I am to be successful during the course over my three year degree, I will leave university with a wide spectrum of choices within the field. Especially now having started my studies, I have come to realise that there are many more topics within computing that I find just as interesting and so look forward to the many opportunities I hope will come with a lot of hard work and determination!
VARK questionnaire
My VARK questionnaire generating the following results:
Visual: 7
Aural: 8
Read/Write: 4
Kinesthetic: 10
describing me as having a 'multimodal' learning preference.
I would most definately agree that I prefer the Kinesthetic approach to learning and so am not surprised by my results. I tend to prefer learning through a variety of techniques combined; mostly Kinesthetic and Visual approaches and this can even sometimes transform a topic which I might not usually find interesting in to wanting to learn more.
I would agree that my least favourite method of learning is through reading and writing. Note-taking and reading may occasionally become tedious to me and sometimes I might have difficulty extracting the most important and useful information from a text or dialogue, instead selecting too much. I do feel that my skills in this area have increased immensely with practice though, and I hope that the note-taking practice in tutorial 2 will give me further guidance in this area. Apart from this I believe that with the increased reading that will be required throughout the course anyway my skills will naturally progress regarding this issue.
describing me as having a 'multimodal' learning preference.
I would most definately agree that I prefer the Kinesthetic approach to learning and so am not surprised by my results. I tend to prefer learning through a variety of techniques combined; mostly Kinesthetic and Visual approaches and this can even sometimes transform a topic which I might not usually find interesting in to wanting to learn more.
I would agree that my least favourite method of learning is through reading and writing. Note-taking and reading may occasionally become tedious to me and sometimes I might have difficulty extracting the most important and useful information from a text or dialogue, instead selecting too much. I do feel that my skills in this area have increased immensely with practice though, and I hope that the note-taking practice in tutorial 2 will give me further guidance in this area. Apart from this I believe that with the increased reading that will be required throughout the course anyway my skills will naturally progress regarding this issue.
SWOT analysis- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
STRENGTHS § Organisational skills § Time management § Work Experience (which in turn has built up my confidence and communication skills) § Group work (a lot of input in team situations) | WEAKNESSES § Presentation skills (anxiety) § Academic referencing (have never used Harvard referencingàwill attend University workshops regarding this topic to enhance my knowledge) § I have a tendency to become extremely anxious over my studies |
OPPORTUNITIES § Build up confidence and presentation skills § Opportunity to integrate with people who share common interests § Opportunity to explore various other areas in my chosen field that I may not have considered as of yet | THREATS § The transition from sixth form college to university (lack of guidance I became accustomed to, and ultimately may have went to depend on) § Unfamiliar forms of assessments, in the form of presentations in most modules throughout the year |
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