CSUMB Learning Journal

Week 8 is a short week and also the last week of CST300. I’m glad it’s over and that I can move on to the next course. This week I completed the post-test for OLI. I didn’t learn anything from it because it was just a rehash of some of the multiple choice questions from previous modules. We finished and turned in our final video project and I’d say it went pretty well. Let’s move on to reviewing other team’s videos. First we have Stack Otterflow’s video. They only have a professional video uploaded right now so I’m only going over that one. Their video makes ours look bad. That’s the easiest way to put it. When I first watched their video about Autonomous Vehicles I thought that we missed some instructions and did ours wrong because of the sheer difference in quality and presentation. They do an excellent job at presenting and covering their topic as well as every other metric that they could be graded on. I think that this team went above and beyond the expectations set for this ass...

  Week 7! Week 8 is a short week so we're almost done with CST300. This has been a pretty great class overall. It didn’t make me like writing more than I did before and the ethics essay was a chore to write, but I feel pretty good about the class. Before the ethics essay, video project, and extra credit scores I’m sitting at a 96% (A+) so I’m fairly confident that I’ve achieved my first milestone to getting an A in every class in this program. I would have a 99% score if I bothered to get a grade corrected from early on but I don’t really care. I have no idea how other people performed in this class and hope this isn’t bragging too much, but I doubt anybody will bother reading this anyway. Speaking of not knowing what other people are doing, the Final Research Video Project! I’m very curious about how other groups are handling this project and would’ve really appreciated an example video from a previous class to show us what level of quality we’re supposed to aim for. As for my gro...

Week 6 comes to a close and my ethics argument essay is around halfway complete. I’ve been having a little trouble figuring out how to word everything in it, but I’m confident that I’ll complete it on time and that it will be good quality. This is in contrast to my previous essay about a career pathway that I’d had practically 100% complete by the time I had to submit a rough draft. I think the difference here is that I’m not passionate about ethics and the entire essay is basically about ethics. In other news, the rest of this week’s activities were somewhat notable. I created a shell for my ILP Portfolio website and wrote a cover letter and resume. We also submitted our essay drafts for team peer review. This week’s OLI modules were about active listening and assertion messages. I find doing these modules to be a bit silly since most of these communication strategies feel like common sense to me, but unfortunately I doubt most people would agree with me. In the lectures this week we ...

Week 5 is coming to a close! This week looks like it has a deceptively lighter workload than previous weeks if you forget that you should be working hard on your ethics argument essay. This week was mostly about developing the essay and planning for the future. I completed Modules 6 and 7 of OLI this week. Module 6 was about conflict recognition and Module 7 was about choosing approaches to conflict strategies. I have three ideas for my capstone project. The first one could be some sort of software tool that I could realistically use often and that would solve some sort of issue that I’ve faced while using my computer. Maybe some sort of process automation or file conversion software? I also like the idea of making a game that I would like to play. I also like the idea of developing software that can help automate the installation and management of an operating system that can be used at scale. I own multiple computers and almost all of my friends own custom built desktops that I’ve h...