Week 1

This week was the beginning of the Spring Semester's courses. This blog will focus on the module "Personal Development for Computing" and every week thoughts in relation to that module will be written down.

In this week's module we learned about the tasks that we need to perform in order to complete it.There will be a continuation of the PDP which stands for Personal Development Planning and through this we write down what skills we have acquired so far, what are our weakness,strengths and any plans for the near future. Apart from that, a conversation took place in relation to the two Assessment types of this module. The first assignment is a group project that has to do with the creation of a website in relation to a historical aspect of Computing. I personally find this project interesting and I am looking forward to it. I have already a knowledge in relation to html and creation of websites because i have attended seminars and I am also attending a distance learning course in relation to it and i think that if in the end we decide as a group to try the html way, then it will be good for me to put in action what i have learned so far.The second assignment is individual and focuses on blog listings (one of them is taking part now!), on personal development plan and statement.

What was mentioned above was something more general in relation to this module and now i will be more concrete in what this week's topic was about. We talked about Computing and its definition. Computing is field of study that is evolving and is related to many things like of: hardware, software, the design part, computation, multimedia and many other (London Metropolitan University). Generally speaking, this field of study can be found almost everywhere and this is good as it is not a discipline which focuses only on something specific.

Skills that an employer is looking forward to see to its employees could be: a)to be flexible while interviewing someone else or being interviewed or even have meetings in order to talk about something that is in relation to the company, b) to be able to think of alternatives, c) to think of alternatives and even if everything may flow smoothly in the job position that you are and when it comes the time to talk about your alternative solution d) to be able to work in teams (London Metropolitan University). I will now write down my opinion in relation to teamwork as i was a trainee once in a newspaper for a six-month period. I was a trainee while attending modules in relation to my previous bachelors degree and there we've been told throughout most of the assignments to form groups and basically learn from it, learn to be part of a team and try to handle what kind of situations my arise. It was something good as it helped me to join groups of different people and see how they will react and how will be the result of each project. This kind of teamwork then, when it came the time to go to that newspaper, helped me a lot as i had to work with many people from many departments in order to have the desirable result of our work.

We also talked about Body language which can show to other people how someone may feel of something or if s/he is nervous etc. A conversation also took place in relation to confidence and arrogance which can be found a lot in the workplace and not only in it but and in general. . The practice of something is also important as it helps the reader,user, to be able to feel more confident in the use of something or to remember something better(London Metropolitan University).

The last thing that we talked about in this class's lecture was in relation to Placements. Placements can be of any kind, of something that is in relation to his/hers field of study or of something that may be different(London Metropolitan University). It is important to be able to work somewhere and even if it is not your field's related as in the end you will experience better how it is to communicate with others, how to be in teams. Personally speaking, this six month training in that newspaper helped me a lot to see how the workplace is and how to act in some circumstances and what should i expect of the other and also as mentioned above how to work in teams.