Monday Probe Surgery Led By Jovial John...

In this morning of Monday madness, we firstly had the "Amazing Adam" where we got back into our original groups (Ben C, Liam B, Sami H, Connor P and myself). Altogether we created a presentation about the network services we did on Friday such as packet switching ISDN, ADSL broadband, and WAP wireless access protocol. I divided the whole presentation to six different slides so all of the members including myself gets an equal amount of work to pitch about. Our group (Team 1) had packet switching. When we pitched, I spoke about what it is, Liam B talked about the benefits and Ben C did the limitations. Afterwards, Connor P said who it was used by and Sami H explained about why to use packet switching.

Packet Switching Presentation

Then the presentation repeated in a logical order for the other teams. After each presentation, we filled in a review sheet regarding about what went well and what could be improved. With the feedback provided, we all wrote a SMART target: (S for specific, M for measurable, A for achievable, R for realistic, and T for time bound). In summary, my target overall was to try to not look at the board at all, to do this I need to practice much more in advance.

Consequently, we all continued with our outstanding work. With my outstanding work already completed for Adam (U10A1T2 Part 1, 2, 3), I decided to help some other students with what to do when they became stuck. I also used my time to complete my outstanding work for U22A4 where I had improvements to amend for to achieve the Merit 4 criteria. I have already finished approximately 75% of the task therefore I shall finish this by tonight.

After lunch, we switched to "Jovial John" where he immediately forced (not really) us to play a game called Cisco Binary, it is where we have a limited amount of time to resolve the binary to the corresponding number or vice versa. I ended up getting to level 4 as the speed increased massively, one level below Joe B. However, this was to wake us up (it did, for around 10 minutes). Play here.

"Jovial John" then moved onto the presentation where he recapped from what he pitched about on Friday by asking recap questions. I had read a bit of the text book over the weekends therefore I could answer a few harder questions but not in exact detail. "Jovial John" talked about the OSI and TCP/IP protocol and its layers, protocols, IP vs MAC, data elements (and different parts), error checking and redundancy check, segments, frames, and packets, datagrams, and a summary of P4. I understood quite a lot but I have issues understanding some too. I don't know how what we learnt links with our assignment, I am unsure whether we still create blogs about the following on the SoL (scheme of learning) or whatever as I found it complicated. As a result a sheet was passed around so we can state which to go through again, however I find the actual U10A1T2 Part 4, 5, 6 and 7 difficult.

At the end of the day, I continued any remaining and outstanding work. Thus, now that we have "Jovial John" I believe I can restart and continue the memes. Overall today was a very informative day with lots of information. However, I need some recap and some relaxation techniques from John.