Appts Week 11 & 12

In week 11 we didn't do any real presentation, however we worked on our final poster.
Our team come up with few ideas on how its going to look like and the final design was based similar  to the idea i had.


Week 12- We worked on a presentation to do with Maori culture and their believes and also how they respect their land. We talked about the Treaty and how the Maori people  miss understood the meaning.
Our presentation went well over all and every one of our team mates had the chance to talk and every one was happy at the end of the day.

now its time to work on our final poster haha...

Week 9 APPT

Today were doing  Customer Service relations.

I personally find it boring as i know all these things already. We were showed a video in the morning to do with customer service it was out of date and it was boring at the same time, Yes it did have some main points of communication skills in there, but i'm sure a lot of the people would of figured it out on their own without watching the video.

I also find it that its better if the lecturer talks more rudder than just showing us a video than heading of to do group work. Overall i think its a good course for people that struggle with speaking out in group so will help them improve. 

Week 5 & 6 APPT


In week 5 we did the health and safety presentation i found it kind of easy as i have no problem of getting in front of the class  and speaking out. We did well as team we got straight onto it and always finish faster than the time expected.

Week 6 we did sustainability it was interesting to do and we found it Little harder than the h & s but we worked well as a team and got it done. once again we finished way before time and were just waiting around for the presentation time to come which is kinda annoying as you cant get stuck into any other work during the time.

I find APPT alright as in some points its really boring waiting around but i guess it would be used well in the future. I have no problem with communication skill as i work around people all the time and i know how to approach in the correct manner.   

Appt -Lesson 3

14/03/2012


For this lesson we mainly did a group activity, I found the activity fun to do due to team work.
I think our team worked well together and we had range of idea coming across from everyone within the group.

We made a slideshow on our presentation, I felt little bit nervous at the beginning of the presentation but once it started I had my confidence up and did well overall.
The one thing I think our group could of done better on was probably time management as on the last question we rushed our answer together and didn’t really have much time to think about it.

Appt - Lesson 2.

Date: 7/3/12


We were based at building 115, for the lesson we went over the assignment and what we had to do.
The explanation that we had from the tutors was very good and clear.
After we had the assignment talk we moved into two different buildings my room was based in building 112-1000 for this lesson we had to do a online test which took around 30-45mins to complete. I found the online test good but once you got into it around half way I started to get a little tired as you had to read a lot of different articles that’s where I had most of my question wrong.

Appt 5110- Semester 1,2012

At the beginning of the course I felt like there was a lot of information thrown at us which made me get a little lost, but thought out the lesson the tutors told us that they will explain more about it thought out the course.

We did a group activity which was about making a peace of paper fly the longest without touching the ground ( there was no restriction )
Our team come up with a idea of making a paper plane and attaching a peace of rope in the front of the plane than to just pull it along. This group activity was interesting because you get to see what other teams come up with. The most common was just making the paper into a ball and throwing it.
There was some interesting ideas as well like Sending the paper as a Fax or Mail.

Splash for Hull.

This is the lay out of the Splash.  It was writen down onto the hull so who ever is working on it they can have a look incase they forget.           

we got the measurements on the splash an we transfered in onto the final peace.

this is a photo of the layout.

Here were spreading the polyester, we had to wear resperators due to the strong fumes and also to wear safety glasses incase in goes into ur eyes.

Glassing the Hull ( outside )

Were getting ready to glass the Fp on the hull. Taz is vacuming all the dust off the hull before we go on.                            

here im sanding the bow of the boat to get it fair.

Dry fitting the glass before moveing on and all the vacum tape has been put on. Were useing EDB-400 for the outside of the hull.

Dry Fitting glass.

Photo of me getting the glass on with rollers.        

We had around 5 people working on getting the glass down while we had 1 person mixing the resin for it. we Taz is working on getting the edges of the glass down while were getting putting on the resin on the glass.

Photo of us putting the resin onto the glass.      

Once all the glass was done and all our peel ply, perft plasic, mesh was down we put on the vacum bag and you can see us working on putting so darts in the bag.                                                       

Selaing the hull ( with normal resin )

As there was not enough wood sealer to go around for the hull Chris ( tutor ) made desision to seal it with normal resin. We used about 20 pumps on resin for the hull.  I recored the pumps just so we know how many we used. The resin was spread around by rollers as it was much easier to do so. In the photo below it shows how we did it. At the point where chris is pointing he was telling us that we didnt put on enough resin and it was abit dry so we had to go over it again. The resin socked into the seeder so we had to put on abit of resin in order to get the proper seal.             

In this photo were almost done sealing the hull, Taz is working on the final part at the Fp. we stopped around 400mm from the fp with the seal.

Chain Plates

I and Chris ( american chris haha ) were working on getting the positon of the chain plates in place. As you can see on this photo we found out where they had to go and than we cut out the foam at that place. We went as far as we could getting the foam out but we Stopped  before hitting the glass.

Once the foam was out we started to mix the glue and started to put it onto the glass where the chain plates will go.The glue had to be thick enough so it dose not slide down off the glass.                     

here is a photo of us putting the glue on              

Once everything was done we got the Glass plates into positon and was held into place by the blocks which were gently screwed onto the foam ( the screws were short enough so they dont go into the glass ). We also put down mdf wood intop of the plates just so the blocks can rest on it and give us more hold when the screws went on.                                    

Fairing Hull/Back filling

this photo here is of the hull once we flipped it over we had some help from the guys in the other class in order to have enough hands to flip it over.

we put the hull into the hot box and we were getting ready to fair it. There was not 2 much fairing to do because most of the boat was already fair.

here is a photo of the center case  before it was cut into position

working on the transom cutting off the planking on the back so it comes flush with the ap                                                  

here is a photo of me planeing the hull takeing all the glue bumps off and also getting it as much fair as possible before we started to do sanding

this photo here was taken once all of the sanding and planeing was done. as you can see Richard is feeling the hull with his hand if its fair.

once the center case was cut to shape and flush with the hull

once all the fairing was done on the hull we back filled, just to get all of the gaps closed that were on hull.                         

Group Work Task 2

Group work Task 2.

In this video were doing non-verbal communication skill for poerfolio task 2.

in the video we have, Harrion , Jade  and Me

Group Work.

For our Portfolio we had 4 group members: Taz,Jade,Harrison and Goran(me).
Each one of us had there own tasks we had to work on.

Task 1=Harrison
Task 2=Goran
Task 3=Taz
Task 4= All group members solo work
Task 5=Jade

Achievement/work record

Steps on how to establish a portfolio of achievement/work record.

In order to keep work record you will need to know what your doing on each day and takeing down information on what you did.
To do so you will need to take records by takeing Photos or Videos.
Once you have taken photos/videos create your self account on Blogger/Buz/Google Doc any of those will do it. Than you can insert the infortation you got on each day/week and keep uploading it.
Like this you have the records on what you did on a day to day/week scale, than you will have the opportunity to look back and relate to other work you have been doing on how long it mite of taken you or just to refresh your memmory on how to do it.

The Steps you need to take in order to establish your work record:

1. Create yourself Gmail Account.
2. Search up "blogger" on google search
3. Sign in with your Gmail account in Blogger
4. Click on "Dashboard"
5. click on "new post" (this will let you create blog)
6. "title" enter the name of your subject, Eg: Title: Getting started
7. Start writeing you blog
8. to insert images click the icon that looks like a photo frame
9. click on "upload"
10. Click on "Browse" in order to find where your images are on the computer.
11. Select you images
12. Click on "publish post" when your done.

Word Processing Programme

Steps on how to open Microsoft Works Word Processor/Save/retrive and print

1. Click on "start"
2. Click "All Programs"
3. Click "Microsoft Works"
4. Open "Microsoft Works Word Processor"

To Save Work:

1. Once finished with your work click on "file"
2. Select "save as.."
3. "save in" where you would like to save your file. eg: Desktop.
4. Enter File Name.
5. Click on "save"

To Retrive File:

1. Click "File" top right corner
2. Click "Open"
3. Click on "Look In" ( where you have saved you work ) can be Desktop/My Computer ect..
4. Select folder
5. Enter the "file name"
6. Click "open"

To Print:

1. Click "file"
2. Select "print"
3. Select printer name "Name"
4. "Copies"
5. Select your paper size A4,A3,A2 ect...
6. Click "OK"

Sending Email

Steps to send email:

1. Open Internet
2. Search Bar
3. Go on you Emails website eg: http://www.hotmail.com/
4. Log in on your account or create account.
5. Once logged in click on "new(write a new message)"
6. "to"= enter email account of the sender eg: sender@hotmail.com
7. "subject:"
8. Write the letter
9. Final Step click "send"

To recive email:

1. Log into you email account
2. click on "inbox"
3. If the mail is highlighted means you have not opened it.
4. click the email highlighted
5. Final step read it