Preparation Work : Ex 2: Managing My Time

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Balancing a job, a family and study needs careful planning to make sure the work gets done. With this in mind I created a list of all exercises, research, assignment work and reflective work for each unit so I can keep track of what needs to be done and tick it off as it is completed. I have put my list of work for my first unit above my desk at home to keep me focused on what needs to be done

Assessment deadline date for submission is 30th September for November and this is what I am aiming for. I have 5 units to complete so I have given myself a deadline for submitting the assignments and also when I should aim to get feedback, I have planned that each assignment it sent to my tutor at the end of the month, so A1 is with my tutor at end of Feb, A2 is at end of March – so A5 will be end of June. I have assumed that it will take two weeks to get feedback ( middle of the following month ) then I have another 2 weeks to rework based on tutor feedback, so the reworked A5 will be complete at the end of July 2020. I have a summer holiday for 2.5 weeks so I have about 6 weeks to prepare for my assessment submission at the end of September.

During a typical week I plan to work on shooting photos every day for practice of composition skills ( on my way to work in the mornings during the week ) Weekday evenings will be used for coursework (exercises and research and reading) and Sunday mornings and Mondays will be used for assignment work ( I don’t work on Mondays)

The photos below are extracts from the back of my notebook where I have planned my studies, I will tick off work once completed so I know I am on track and where I am in my studies to stay in control of time management.

Context And narrative Timeline to get work done for November Assessment

Prep work and Unit 1 Timeline – as each bit of work is done it will be ticked off the list – I will have a copy of this on my wall above my desk as well as my notebook. My notebook is with me all the time so I can review it any time I have a spare moment – it’ in the back of my notebook so it doesn’t get lost among other notes

Unit 2 list of work to be done with a tick box for when completed – it would be really handy if these were appendices to the coursework that could be used by students to manage their work instead of me having to write this down like this

I have created a process for producing my assignments that works for me, these headings are replicated in my blog so each stage is a separate blog, the “rework” blog is the final version of the assignment that gets sent to be assessed

Lesson learned from my first module, I will now write a summary of each unit before moving on to the next and will make sure all work for assessment is prepared before moving on
I need to aim to complete all work by the end of July to give me time to prepare for assessment to the standard I want to achieve, my first assessment was a rush and was stressful so I want to avoid this with this module

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