This month we were introduced to the project and we looked at the project brief. I found it useful to examine the project before we actually did it, and feel it would help me later. My thoughts on the project so far are that it looks very different to our year nine project, and I’m really looking forward to doing all of the creative work, like the welcome posters.
This month we:
-- Initial Project Plan: this was all right to do because it involved mostly using (and
familiarising) ourselves with the project website. I found some of the timings
hard to do, though, because I didn’t exactly know what the tasks
were.
-- Final Project
Plan: basically, we saved a second copy of the initial one that we would
work on as time went on.
-- Student Profile: I already had my thoughts on this sorted,
so this was really easy to do. I was excited about doing Paris because I study
French at school, so this would be cool finding out more about the project.
-- Emblem: we started
this by looking for images and learning about the copyright laws, and I added
some websites to my sources table. I didn’t do much on this and will do it in my
own spare time as I have Photoshop at home.
-- Sources Table: this was just a ready-made table
for us to enter what sources we used.
-- Destination Database: we began by learning a
few things about Microsoft Access, and then made our table in Microsoft Word.
There were columns and we decided on information such as which records to
include, how many characters to use etc.
So far, I’m intrigued by the project and next month we will be continuing with the database destination. No problems this week, which was nice.
