Christmas was great (too much food but good to spend time with family) and New Year hectic (too many late nights and too much drink but good to spend time with friends) and those New Year resolutions….one of the reasons I think the desk next to me is piled high with left over goodies. So, if your in-centre let me know – I’m happy to share.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Friday, 17 September 2010
Studying Web Design?
CIW have made some exciting changes to their certification and I have just attended a presentation given by James Stanger who is the President and Chief Certification Architect at CIW. He spoke about the benefits these changes would bring to students and prospective employers.
For those that don’t already know the Certified Internet Webmaster – CIW – was created by a community of web professionals from around the world and has an advisory council made up of Industry, Academia, Government and Not-for profit organisations. I find it reassuring to know that the training and certification we provide is under constant review and evolves to reflect todays Web Design technologies and job roles and that’s what the changes are all about.
Several name changes have taken place along with the re-structure and will now consist of Associate, Specialist and Professional levels.
1D0-510 – This exam is still broken down into 3 sections and when passed you are awarded the CIW Web Foundations Associate certification.
For those that don’t already know the Certified Internet Webmaster – CIW – was created by a community of web professionals from around the world and has an advisory council made up of Industry, Academia, Government and Not-for profit organisations. I find it reassuring to know that the training and certification we provide is under constant review and evolves to reflect todays Web Design technologies and job roles and that’s what the changes are all about.
Several name changes have taken place along with the re-structure and will now consist of Associate, Specialist and Professional levels.
1D0-510 – This exam is still broken down into 3 sections and when passed you are awarded the CIW Web Foundations Associate certification.
- CIW Internet Business Associate
- CIW Site Development Associate
- CIW Network Technology Associate
- CIW Site Development Essentials
- CIW Web Design Elements
- CIW Basic Web Technologies
- CIW Advanced Web Technologies
- E-Commerce Site Development
- E-Commerce Technology and Security
- E-Commerce Business, Marketing and Legal Issues
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
Six Top Tips for Motivation- my favourites so far
Well you all know by now that I want to wing walk on my birthday and I agreed to get fit and give up smoking. I can tell you it’s not easy but I have had some great feedback from some of the students and everyone here at Computeach (big thank you) and thought I would share my favourites so far.
1. Get a Buddy – someone who will work with you, share the experience and encourage you to keep going when it gets tough. My brother has been roped in for this one. If you’re a student the student forum is a great place to for you to do this. You can share, gain support and make friends.
2. Visualisation – close your eyes and imagine the end result – here I go - standing on top of a bi-plane and taking a dive – can’t wait.
3. Small Chunks – break your main goal down into small chunks of success.
4. Plan Ahead – plan what you are going to do and when. This is much easier to do once you have broken your main goal down into small chunks.
5. Time – plan your time and let people know what you are doing and why – it’s amazing at how supportive and encouraging everyone becomes.
6. Record Progress – keep a record of the progress you make and detail each success. I’m finding this is a great way to boost my confidence in my ability to stick with it when the going gets tough.
What do you think? Have you got any more?
1. Get a Buddy – someone who will work with you, share the experience and encourage you to keep going when it gets tough. My brother has been roped in for this one. If you’re a student the student forum is a great place to for you to do this. You can share, gain support and make friends.
2. Visualisation – close your eyes and imagine the end result – here I go - standing on top of a bi-plane and taking a dive – can’t wait.
3. Small Chunks – break your main goal down into small chunks of success.
4. Plan Ahead – plan what you are going to do and when. This is much easier to do once you have broken your main goal down into small chunks.
5. Time – plan your time and let people know what you are doing and why – it’s amazing at how supportive and encouraging everyone becomes.
6. Record Progress – keep a record of the progress you make and detail each success. I’m finding this is a great way to boost my confidence in my ability to stick with it when the going gets tough.
What do you think? Have you got any more?
Monday, 2 August 2010
Yes you can
It’s going to be my birthday soon –and I wanted to do something really fun like wing walking so, with best intentions decided to give up smoking and get fit. Did you ever wonder how some people find it so easy to remain motivated, positive and focused while others don’t? I know I do. Because it’s just not that easy is it?
When ‘’M’ returned from WPC (and still no gossip from the bond night) she was talking about the keynote speech given by President Bill Clinton. He asked everyone to think about the impact of the IT revolution and what part they can play in achieving equality around the globe. She said his enthusiasm was really quite contagious and everyone was talking about it afterwards. But how is he going to keep that momentum going? Clinton did say he is on Facebook and answers question on the social network site. “We actually do tweets from time to time to keep people up with what we’re doing, which I never thought I would do”, he said.
So, it got me thinking about the students I support and what I can do to help. We have student forums and I often pop in and out to offer a bit of advice and like President Clinton we actually tweet from time to time and the tutors are great when the students need a little more help as IT certification can be quite complicated at times.
But what else helps?
I would like your thoughts – what keeps you enthusiastic about the changes you have committed to? How do you keep yourself motivated when things get tough?
Add your comments and let me know.
When ‘’M’ returned from WPC (and still no gossip from the bond night) she was talking about the keynote speech given by President Bill Clinton. He asked everyone to think about the impact of the IT revolution and what part they can play in achieving equality around the globe. She said his enthusiasm was really quite contagious and everyone was talking about it afterwards. But how is he going to keep that momentum going? Clinton did say he is on Facebook and answers question on the social network site. “We actually do tweets from time to time to keep people up with what we’re doing, which I never thought I would do”, he said.
So, it got me thinking about the students I support and what I can do to help. We have student forums and I often pop in and out to offer a bit of advice and like President Clinton we actually tweet from time to time and the tutors are great when the students need a little more help as IT certification can be quite complicated at times.
But what else helps?
I would like your thoughts – what keeps you enthusiastic about the changes you have committed to? How do you keep yourself motivated when things get tough?
Add your comments and let me know.
Friday, 23 July 2010
It’s going to get cloudy……..
So, what is all this hype around Cloud computing, what is it and why is everyone talking about how it will revolutionise the way organisations operate.
With the global economy taking a bashing and technology evolving at an alarming rate having the technical infrastructure to operate in today’s business market can be a daunting prospect – it is not easy to forcast with accuracy the requirments needed to operate successfully and at the same time take into account the fluctuating demand on resource?
Well that’s where Cloud computing takes over. It has been described as hosting with a difference – the difference being you can have as little or as much as you want when you want for as long as you want. The infrastructure is there, developed, maintained and updated by a third party so all a user needs is a computer with internet access.
It was apparent at this year’s WPC that Microsoft see the Cloud as something to be taken seriously and it is the bed-rock of their strategy moving forward. CEO, Steve Ballmer and COO, Kevin Turner both addressed cloud-computing in their keynote speech with Turner stating that Microsoft’s big goal for the next couple of decades was “continuous cloud service for every person and every business”.
Corporate VP Jon Roskill, taking over the Microsoft Partner Programme this year from Allison Watson, spoke passionately about Microsoft’s collaboration with partners saying that “together we're going to succeed in this transformation to cloud”.
Computeach will be following progress in this area closely over the next few months and as always we will keep you all in the loop.
Drop your comments in the box as we would like to have your thoughts.
With the global economy taking a bashing and technology evolving at an alarming rate having the technical infrastructure to operate in today’s business market can be a daunting prospect – it is not easy to forcast with accuracy the requirments needed to operate successfully and at the same time take into account the fluctuating demand on resource?
Well that’s where Cloud computing takes over. It has been described as hosting with a difference – the difference being you can have as little or as much as you want when you want for as long as you want. The infrastructure is there, developed, maintained and updated by a third party so all a user needs is a computer with internet access.
It was apparent at this year’s WPC that Microsoft see the Cloud as something to be taken seriously and it is the bed-rock of their strategy moving forward. CEO, Steve Ballmer and COO, Kevin Turner both addressed cloud-computing in their keynote speech with Turner stating that Microsoft’s big goal for the next couple of decades was “continuous cloud service for every person and every business”.
Corporate VP Jon Roskill, taking over the Microsoft Partner Programme this year from Allison Watson, spoke passionately about Microsoft’s collaboration with partners saying that “together we're going to succeed in this transformation to cloud”.
Computeach will be following progress in this area closely over the next few months and as always we will keep you all in the loop.
Drop your comments in the box as we would like to have your thoughts.
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