Archive for the 'college' Category

Blogging, course work and ME/CFS

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

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 though most of it was waffle and has since been consigned to the ether with a click of the delete key.

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Victoria Stringer; getting professional?

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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 and content of the posts themselves.

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Motherhood and college

Friday, June 19th, 2009

I’ve managed to complete my foundation degree with flying colours and yes I’m damned proud of myself.

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Blended learning (twitter tag #iblc09 )

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

I’ve spent today at the 4th international blended learning conference at the University of Hertfordshire.

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HCI as a student sees it

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

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 ones counting down to May 13th..

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Stuff to do, things to buy..

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

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 even failing my current crop of assignments won’t affect automatic acceptance.

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Worries about the future

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

smalldegreeI 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.

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Tempted

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

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 time and energy *sigh*

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rocking around the christmas tree

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

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 Christmas and foster a belief in santa – something that may eventually lead to a schoolyard kicking as said belief disintegrates, but why borrow trouble eh? We’ve got a good 3-4 years before that happens – and anyway, I’ve found a place that teaches kung-fu to kids..

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Blended learning

Monday, December 1st, 2008

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.

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Catching up

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

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 project proposals and the like) and the other is to be for a childrens charity – which is why I’ve chosen to highlight AYME the Association of Young People with ME.

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Breastfeeding is damned hard!

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

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!

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We has internetz!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

RAH!!!!!

Yup, talk talk finally came through yesterday evening so I’m back where I belong: in front of a computer screen.

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Procrastination and college life

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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: (more…)

Bags of stuff

Monday, January 28th, 2008

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 with each others progress and comment on that progress, they also want us to participate in polls and discussion boards.. This would be all fine and dandy assuming the techie responsible for setting up these career planning blogs had made it possible for us to add new entries *grin*

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Getting ahead of myself

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Seems I should check my paperwork more carefully, I’m still fully hosted right up until june YEY!

*grin*

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Tutorom is the place to learn online.

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

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*

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Learning..

Friday, September 28th, 2007

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 non-functioning car - Andy will always be my saviour for driving down to pick us up so that I could make that appointment.

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I’m a fresher! ..Again.

Monday, September 17th, 2007

That’s right, yours truly is returning to college.

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