Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law- If anything can go wrong, it will
                        

  If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong

Origin

     Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Bloom's Taxonomy

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom), updated the taxonomy to reflect relevance to 21st century work

Remembering-Retrieving, recalling, or recognizing past knowledge from memory(recall information). 

Understanding-Explain ideas or concepts.

Applying-Using information in another familiar situation

Analyzing- Braking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships

Evaluating-Justifying a decision or cause of action

Creating- Generating new ideas,products or ways of viewing things

Components of a Portfolio

Self evaluation & profile sheets.

A profile of technical & vocational skills you've developed.

An up to date list of training & courses

Certificates (achievements, exams etc)

An up-to-date list of your work experience

Your curriculum vitae  (CV).

Your idea about where you’d like to be in 7 years time & what you need to do to achieve this

Examples of your work & interests

Degree certificate & transcript

Personal statement

Day 5

Today discussed about how to grab opportunities in industry level. When you're applying for a job company requires specified skills such as good communication skills, presentation skills, leadership skills, creativeness, etc. When you want to climb up in the company you must be capable of risk taking when an opportunity available otherwise your colleague will take that chance, Confidence, Commitment, leaderships are the attributes of risk taking.

Day 4 (Creativity and personal Qualities )

Mr Rehan explained there are two types of knowledge implicit knowledge and the explicit knowledge. Simply implicit knowledge is something you know but can't explain to another person. Explicit knowledge is something you know, and also you can explain it to another person.

Today’s discussion was about creativity and non-creativity. Creativity means “The ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, and relationships, and generate meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations.” In a simple term's creativity can define as think out of the box. Creativity helps to success; the best example is anything,lk because they think creatively and design their E-commerce website and they success in the field. 

Later part we discussed some personal qualities. These personal qualities can develop through your Fine-tuning skills.

Awareness - knowledge or understanding of a subject, issue, or situation

Self-motivation- Ability to do what needs to be done, without influence from other people or situations. People with self-motivation can find a reason and strength to complete a task, even when challenging, without giving up or needing another to encourage them.

Commitment – An agreement to perform an activity in the future under some circumstances. 

Time management- the analysis of how working hours are spent and the prioritization of tasks in order to maximize personal efficiency in the workplace 

Determination-  The act of making or arriving at a decision and not given up the task until it success

Positive thinking - is the act of thinking good or affirmative thoughts

Perseverance- steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.

Day 3 (Skills and can imperfection create perfection)

Today the lecture was started with a surprise. Mr. Rehan told all students to prepare an airplane from a paper and after that he told to throw it to the White board, but there are few closest to the target but anyone cannot achieve the target. After that he guided all students to prepare a new one, and he told to fly that paper airplane. That one is more successful. The basic idea of this concept is the transformation of skills.

Skill means it is a learned activity and something you can develop through practice and reflection.

These are few types of skills.

Study skills 

Study skills are the abilities and approaches that can be developed from knowledge. The followings are the five study skill component.

•  Self-awareness and self-evaluation
•  Awareness of what is required
•  Methods, organization, strategies
•  Confidence and permission
•  Familiarity: practice and habit

Soft skills

Soft skills are personal attributes that enhance an individual's interactions, job performance and career prospects.

• Positive Attitude
• Flexibility/Adaptability
• Good Communication Skills
• Time Management Abilities
• Problem-Solving Skill
• Self-Confidence

Transferable skills

Transferable skills are the skills and abilities you have acquired during any activity in your life.

• Plan and arrange events and activities. 
• Delegate responsibility 
• Motivate others
• Multi-Task

Hard skills

Hard skills are skills that you learn over time or through your life

Ex-Technical skills

There was a debate in the later part of the lecture. The topic was can imperfection create perfection. There are both sides of this topic. If a person considered as a good lecture or a teacher, this topic was not valid because if a person can’t teach if he or she not good at it but in the world, anyone is not perfect, perfect mean ideal standards. Another side of the topic is if a person is a self-learner when he or she identified his imperfection and work hard on it and then the person can overcome their imperfections.

In the world there are two strategies, one is working on weaknesses and other 

Day 2 (Punctuality)

The second day of lecture was in the morning session, and three mates came late to the lectures, and Mr. Rehan got real annoyed, and he said punctuality is a most important thing in a life.

Punctuality is the characteristic of being able to complete a required task or fulfil an obligation before or at a previously designated time. As a student’s we need to improve our punctuality because when we entered to the industry level, we need to meet so many deadlines. If you are a punctual person, it’s become easy to handle deadlines, as well as being punctual show's respect and consideration for others. Punctuality also shows you have self-discipline and organizational ability. Being more punctual is all about good planning and organization and knowing when to act.

    “Punctuality is the soul of business”

                   Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As a human being we can’t be punctual at every time. Because there are lot of unavoidable reasons, but if you are on time eight times out of 10, then you are a punctual person, but if you are late more often than this, then your punctuality could do with a helping hand.

Today we got our Individual assignment. Lecture discussed about the assignment. It includes following two subsections.
                           • Research report & presentation of research
                           • Reflective portfolio report

There are six topics, and I selected Economic Impact of Outsourcing. We have to deliver our findings in a formal presentation.

Reflective portfolio is second part of the assignment. A portfolio is a collection of evidence that represents achievement, learning experience and analyzing skills within a module/course or programme of study. Portfolio will help for identify our strength and weaknesses, and it will encourage self-learning.

LFS day 1

My second semester started today, in the second semester I must follow 3 modules. Today the last lecture is on the learning for success (LFS) module. The lecturer was Mr Syed Rehan and he identified me in the class room because he taught me in the previous semester.

Today the lecture is on the introduction of this module and he started the introduction with joke, he said this module is not like ERD it is more practical than ERD, he said that because we found very tough to create ERD diagrams in the past semester. Mr Rehan display the content of the module and the study plan for this module.as I think LFS is the key module for BIT students because we have to do lot presentations in the industry level. As I think this module teach us the art of communications in verbal and nonverbal. He briefly tell about assignments we have to follow but not a long one and he told to create a blog site and maintain it .he said he will cheque the blog site regularly via “greasemonkey chord” .I am bit interested about what is greasemonkey chord but I fell tired today and I keep in my note to search it on a another day.