I’ll show you mine..
While it may come across as a little smug, I’ve written this for the next time I feel crappy because of the ME/CFS or when certain family members try to pull me down and denigrate my achievements; I can look back at this post and feel proud that not only did I finish my foundation degree [...]
So.. I’m a graduate – pending results. Now what?
Well, there’s continuing development on the wordpress site I created for my final year project, a site I’m setting up for another friend and of course this place needs a little TLC now I finally have the time.
Acknowledgements and thanks..
Well, I have one more task before my degree is officially over and I can sit back and await the graduation ceremony notification email. Once my project demonstration is completed at 11:30 on the 16th June I’ll be an unemployed graduate, but I couldn’t have done any of it without the help of a few [...]
Endings and fears
I’ll start by pointing out that I’m not your average student; I’m a woman in a field statistically more favourable to men and it’s been said by more than a few of my tutors that I have drive and focus beyond the norm.
WAD Revision time again..
That’s right, project deadline is close and exams are looming which is partially why this poor blog has seen little love from me of late despite the ton of things I have to share with you lucky, lucky people..
Beating the disability benefit trap
Trying to make myself look a good employment prospect is stressful; I’m resigned to never managing full time (unless someone out there manages to come up with a cure for ME/CFS – which would be nice..) but I WILL do my damnedest to find a part time job that pays better than the benefit system; hence the [...]
Against all odds..
Principles and applications of web Services (technology): A3 Digital Entertainment Systems: A1 Web Application development (design): A3 Professional Issues in computing: A3
Revision for professional issues in computing
This is for my last exam which is tomorrow – the blogging my revision trick seemed to work quite well for PAWS so lets see how I get on with PIC. A lot of this is cut and paste so most links will be to where ever the information has been taken – if anyone [...]
Revision for Principles and Applications of Web Services
I’ve neglected to blog for a while and figure that since repetition is the best way to learn I should kill two birds with one stone and share a little of what I’ve been going through today.. So read on if you’re trying to sleep – it’ll help cure insomnia – trust me.
Having ME/CFS is humiliating
It’s bad enough having all this crap wrong with us, being knackered and in pain all the sodding time while still managing to look the picture of health, people don’t think there’s anything wrong with you and that you’re making a mountain out of a molehill.
Blogging, course work and ME/CFS
When I first started this blog I had no life; I was working every hour god sent and a few more to boot until I really had no life because the ME/CFS took it away. I had a great deal to say and a great deal of time in which to say it – even [...]
Victoria Stringer; getting professional?
I’ve been culling posts left right and centre from this blog so that I can ‘streamline’ the content when I merge my other blogs to it during the (hopefully soon) site redesign and update I’ve been working on. Doing so I’ve discovered many things; not least the changes in my writing style and the tone [...]
Motherhood and college
I’ve managed to complete my foundation degree with flying colours and yes I’m damned proud of myself.
Blended learning (twitter tag #iblc09 )
I’ve spent today at the 4th international blended learning conference at the University of Hertfordshire.
HCI as a student sees it
This is a post about future developments in HCI from one of my studynet blogs. As my HCI exam approaches I figured – why not use it here as well? There are many of you twitterers and facebooky types interested in this too, no need just to share thoughts of this nature with the studious [...]
Stuff to do, things to buy..
I really can’t wait for this next month or so to be over – on the one hand YEY I’ll have completed a foundation degree in IT for Multimedia and I’ll be hopping stright onto the third year of a Bsc (hons) IT (entertainment systems) degree in September because my grades are high enough that [...]
Worries about the future
I have the opportunity to progress onto the third year of a Bachelor of science honours degree next year. However, I’m not sure if I will get the funding to do so because of my wasted year on the BA(hons) popular music and recording degree at Salford university in 2001.
Tempted
Whilst browsing a couple of jewellers forums I came across a link to a course in silver metalwork at college lane in the evenings (My uni campus which is luckily walking distance from the home) as well as a kiln fused glass course, for the fantastic sum of £175 each.. If only I had more [...]
rocking around the christmas tree
This is the song that has been running around in my head for DAYS! Kill me, just kill me now. No this is not going to be one of those bah humbug type posts – i’m not allowed to bah humbug anymore – I have a child, I’ve now got to embrace the joys of [...]
Blended learning
On top of my coursework I’ve joined the University Cable 3.0 project team, we’re trying to organise collaborative online learning between members of the 4 consortium colleges studying on the Foundation Degree Business and Computing Programme.
Catching up
I’m now back at college full time and really playing catchup as far as my assignments go. As well as a research project to write, I have java program to create and 2 websites to build; one for my work based learning project (which is why a few twitters have been about gantt charts and [...]
Breastfeeding is damned hard!
The person who first described breastfeeding as a marvelous bonding experience has a strange mind to my way of thinking. Through the experience I’ve had over the last 5 weeks I’d say it’s more akin to shock treatment!
We has internetz!
RAH!!!!! Yup, talk talk finally came through yesterday evening so I’m back where I belong: in front of a computer screen.
Procrastination and college life
I’m currently sat in the ‘career planning’ lesson (most pointless lesson on the currculum) and I’m supposed to be blogging on studynet about:
Bags of stuff
The latest college assignments had me chuckling; first of all we have to keep a career planning blog, they’re trying to initiate some sort of micro social network within the group with these – at least that’s how it seems. They all have to be public, we are all supposed to keep up to date [...]
Getting ahead of myself
Seems I should check my paperwork more carefully, I’m still fully hosted right up until june YEY! *grin*
Tutorom is the place to learn online.
For video or flash tutorials Tutorom really is the place to be. I found this while catching up on my feeds over at Cybernirvana it’s proof positive of why I keep Zia at the top of my info list *grin*
Learning..
It’s been a mad couple of weeks all told. There was the rush up to Manchester to make sure all the funding for my course was sorted, it would have been simple and stress free had it not been for the time stood at the side of the M6 in the pouring rain with a [...]
I’m a fresher! ..Again.
That’s right, yours truly is returning to college.