Week 3

Week 3's class consisted of only one teacher, giving a brief explanation on our assignment then leaving us to teach somewhere else. So our group went to work on our group project, Kevin was away, but we had a new group member called Justin joined us. We spent the time finalising our group name, slogan and project idea, but I'm sure when Kevin comes back he'll want to have a say as well, so still nothing has been decided.
After this we went to a computer class, of which was unnesscary as we already know how to use moodle and the online library etc..
Next was the referencing lesson, this is something I did need to know, but like everyone else in the class I really struggeled to concentrate and simply stay awake in one of the most boring lectures in existence. I have never seen a class empty so quickly at the end of the lesson.

Week 2

Todays task was to come up with 5 communication probelms that occur during the workforce. We were then to find the causes, costs and solutions to these problems.
Some of our problems were, Lack of understanding in colleagues, Peoples attitudes and loud noise workplaces.

These problems affect people working everyday, thats why its critical that we address these problems and reduce there negative effects.
In our groups we had to give presentations to the class, every group we talked to did not realise this was going to be the case every week. Never the less we bluffed our way through our presentation, Kevin really can talk...

As a group we've decided to meet after class every tuesday to do some group work before the wed class. This time together will help us focus and sort out what needs to be done, and which person will be doing what task in the group.

I think this will be crucial to passing this class.

Week 1

Today was the first day we had the subject Communication skills. As its really all about talking about how you are feeling, I can't see most of this being used in a work environment. For instance, the boss of the workshop is not going to ask how I'm feeling about work everyday.
We were then givin the task of thinking up ideas for our project. As the main focus of the automotive industry is to be fuel and emission efficient followed closely by safety. My group choose to think of new ways we could get cars to run on other fuels. We were very stretched for ideas as all manufacturers are already trying to solve the problem. So our ideas turned out to be a bit more radical. 1. Was that we could try get the car to run off electric, petrol, biodeisel and Hydrogen(water powered) to cancel out each others bad effects.
The 2nd idea was to have solar panels and small wind turbines on top of cars to power hybrid cars more effectively.