6. Visual basic and Photoshop

This week to help improve my familiarity with Visual Basic I downloaded a free version of this software onto my laptop at home through the Microsoft website. With this version of Visual basic I have downloaded it is easier for me to complete class tasks at home when I haven’t finished them in class. Also I am using this version to help with my familiarity of the software by trying to create things such as text boxes and messages boxes without any guidance from a teacher so I can improve my knowledge of this program. Also during breaks at college I am starting to use Photoshop at my own accord, with this I am working towards another one of my targets by gaining experience with Photoshop and learning how to use all of its tools effectively by myself. 

5. How I have continued to keep myself focused

This week when carrying out tasks during class I have been determined to keep up with my strategy to keep myself focused during class. I have done this by during class when we are working individually I brought in a music player and listened to my music during the class so I can keep myself focused, this helps with my motivation as well as I am able to fully focus on my work and not be distracted by other things. This meant that my work ethic during class was strong as I kept my self-motivated to get my work complete. Also when completing class work at home for an assignment when I am working on it I have quiet music on so that I do not get bored and the music keeps me on track and focused on work so that I can get the task finished for when I need it during class or for the assignment. 

4. How to keep myself focused

Today we did a short set of questions about how well we think we are doing in our class, for example how well can we concentrate, how well can we meet set tasks and how good we are at meeting deadlines. We also wrote about what we think we can improve on to how we can motivate ourselves.

We also distinguished what strategies we need to go to be able to motivate ourselves when doing our class work and keep focused. One strategy that I will do to keep my self-focused when doing normal tasks would be to listen to music or a podcast, this can help me stay focused when doing these tasks as I will not be distracted by anything in the classroom or anyone else in the classroom. Another strategy that I will use would be to get rid of irrelevant things that will keep me distracted from my task. With this I will not have anything that is irrelevant to the task at hand out and that keep me distracted like having the internet open when it is not needed. 

3. Visual Basic and Reading

This week I have learned the basics of visual studios, during this time we learnt how to add text/message boxes, put numbers and words into boxes and also how to add background images into our piece.  

This week I also finished reading a book which I recently started reading by my favourite author R.D Wingfield. The book I finished was called a Winter Frost. This has helped me with improving one of my soft skills improvements where I wished to improve my vocabulary, this helped by giving me a range of new words with a new perspective from a more specialized point of view.

I have also started reading another book called the Pacific by Hugh Ambrose and I wish to finish this within the next month or two and from this to help further improve my vocabulary.