William Flood

Electronic Portfolio

My name is William Flood and I am 14 years old, I have experience in many different programs of which I will list within my portfolio. It also contains a list of all the different courses I have studied and a description of each. It also has my IT growth plan as well as my 10 strongest transferable skills. I have also included a list and information about the people that have inspired me over the years and information about my preferred career in the future.

Units StudiedDigital Literacy: In this unit I have studied how to manage files and folders, search for information on the internet effectively and manage options for accessing the internet. As well as I have learned the proper way for a computer workstation to be setup so that you don’t injure your self when working on the computer for long periods of time.

Applications Software: I have learned how to effectively use five common programs that are used to complete everyday assignments, of which I will list on the software studied page of my portfolio.

Business Communications: In this unit I have learned how to effectively create a presentation and have learned possible legal issues with electronic communication.

Information & Communication Technology Issues: I have learned the impacts technology has on personal health and the environment. As well as I have learned about different privacy and security issues with technology. I have also learned the legal and ethical uses of the internet.

Software Studied• Word

• Excel

• Publisher

• PowerPoint

• FrontPage

A word processing program used to type documents and sometimes create small diagrams.

A spread sheet program used to organize numerical data, like prices or profits.A program used to create publications like name cards and posters.

A program used to create detailed websites.

A Presentation program used to design digital presentations that can also include sounds and moving objects.

Word

Skills learned: use word rap, apply a border to a page, use a table to display information, use proper keyboarding techniques, use basic page breaks.

Excel

Skills Learned: recognize parts of the spreadsheet window, change the column widths, format a cell or block of cells, sum a column using auto sum feature, build a formula into a cell.

Publisher

Skills Learned: differentiate between starting from scratch and using a wizard, add a page border, crop graphics, create a text frame, layer text o graphics.

Power Point

Presentation

PowerPoint

Skills Learned: change the background of a slide, create a text area on a slide, add sound and/or music to a slide, select/modify a slide layout, move between different slide views.

My Website

FrontPage

Skills Learned: create a hyperlink, format the theme(background), Create a marquee, Add sounds and motion to objects, create a link bar.

I am quite capable in these areas: Technological problems, working with various types of software and programs, problem solving, Mathematics

I would like to improve in these areas:Artistic skills, Listening skills(Brandon’s advice),

I would like to learn these software applications in the future: Eclipse(used for Java coding)

Computer-related courses I would like to take in the future include:Multiple computer programing courses for example Unix and Java coding possibly. Almost any computer course that may possibly be of use to me in the future.

IT Plan

1. Excellent at organizing my time, and the time of others2. Able to plan presentations3. Expert at getting things done4. Develop markets for ideas/products5. Able to explain difficult/complex ideas, concepts and

problems6. Excellent research skills7. Train someone in something8. Enjoy cost analysis, estimates, projections and

comparisons9. Excel at program development and planning10.People seem to find you very approachable

Transferable Skills

I am thinking about becoming a computer software engineer.

An Application engineer mainly designs software programs for specific uses.A System engineer designs larger computer systems.

I think this career is a good choice for me because I am interested and eager to learn more involving programing and computers. Also because I am interested in technology and have great mathematical skills(which are needed as a software engineer).

Future Career

My main inspiration would be my cousins husband, Matthias.

Matthias designs websites for a living and he first inspired me to get involved in computers. Which has become my main interest and a possible future career.I am inspired by him because what he does for a living interests me and I wanted to learn more about designing websites and he showed me the basics of what he does; which is what first inspired me.

INSPIRATION