Resistant Materials
Initial Rating 20th October 2011
The second worst section on my audit! I have no real experience of Resistant materials apart from a 3D furniture project i did for art in college, however everything was glue gunned together... SO i don't feel like it counts. I am actually really looking forward to this section! especially turning some of those reds into Greens! and Blues eventually.
6th February 2012
A little of progress has been made, but not as much as id liked. I think i need to get in the workshop a lot more and just do some experimenting and the mini tasks as an excuse to try out some different techniques. I Think a problem with my not progressing as much is i used the laser cutter waaaay too much in my deign and make project which was my perfect opportunity to get some of these sections covered!.... Apart from the CAM section. I need to seriously make up for this as i said above with mini tasks and my next set of Modules! Otherwise i don't think ill be specialising in anything at this rate ...(Apart from Graphic Design, which isn't what this course is about)
End of Year Rating
I finally started getting somewhere with this section! ... I think what helped was i started to set aside time for mini tasks each week and also spent a whole week trying out CAM machines other than the laser cutter (which i think I'm banned from for life).
Theres still a couple of week areas i need to address and some plans for some future and summer work however i felt like i needed to concentrate on building up my workshop skills over the last few months otherwise I'm going to be a DT teacher that can really make/build anything but knows lots of facts.
All in all I'm happy with this section and look forward to working on it further to get to the next level.
Theres still a couple of week areas i need to address and some plans for some future and summer work however i felt like i needed to concentrate on building up my workshop skills over the last few months otherwise I'm going to be a DT teacher that can really make/build anything but knows lots of facts.
All in all I'm happy with this section and look forward to working on it further to get to the next level.