Blog 22: Final 3-Column Chart

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Blog 20: Three Column Chart

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Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is your essential question?

How can a computer systems analyst best update a clothing and accessory company's legacy systems to meet modern industry standards?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question?

Keep up to date with the technology and the market for the technology.

3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer?

1. Technology is constantly changing. In order to keep up with the modern industry standards, it is important to know what that standard is.
2. Bugs, hackers, and viruses can infect computers that do not have a knowledgable user or a computer without adequate protection.
3. Allows you to buy the hardware/software needed at a cheaper price, helping both you and your clientele.

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

Mentorship - I have observed that the clientele of my mentor has trouble connecting to his server because it is using outdated software. Although I have urged him to update it, he has ignored this fact and suffers slightly because of it.

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

Computer usage in the workplace of a clothing and accessory company. It's important to observe how the users are taking care of the systems, etc. so that you can properly build the system to fit their needs. (Handicaps, habits, etc.)

Blog 19: Senior Project and ESLRs

1. What ESLR have you excelled in most in your senior project?

Effective user of technology.

2.  Please explain why you think you have excelled in this ESLR.

My senior topic is related to technology, and through it I have learned much more than I the amount that I already knew. Also since the topic is related to technology, I have had to use it throughout.

3.  Provide evidence from your senior topic to support your claim.

Mentorship hours, photos from previous blog assignment.

Blog 18: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #3

1. What is your essential question?
How can a systems analyst update a clothing and accessory company's legacy systems to meet modern industry standards?

2. What is the third answer to your essential question?
My third answer to my essential question is to follow a system.

3. What are three details to justify your third answer?

• Speeds up the updating process
• Makes it easy to identify and rule out anomalies
• Cuts costs on buying bulk

4. What source helped you prove that this answer was justified for your essential question?
Mentorship

5. What do you plan to study next and why?
I plan to continue mentorship with different clientele; up until now I have been working with just one main client and I would like to compare and contrast multiple work environments.

Blog 10: Senior Project Update

(1) What are you currently doing in your independent component?

I have decided to use mentorship hours for the first independent component and currently have four hours completed.

(2) What is a recent piece of research (article, interview, or audio-visual) that have you reviewed you would say was significant in helping you understand where to go next in your senior project?  The piece of research should be something you reviewed in November.  Please explain what you learned and where are you going next because of this piece of research.

My second interview pointed me towards programming, and I have been looking into it since.

(3) Provide evidence from your independent component or the piece of research as something you recently did.  For example, a photo of something you working on for your independent component or your notes from the video you watched.

Updated mentorship log.

Blog 9: Working EQ and Possible Answers

(1) What was the working EQ you used during your presentation?

• What is the most important skill/trait in a systems analyst?

(2) Did you decide to revise your working EQ after your presentation? If so, write your revised EQ here.  If not simple write "I am not going to revise my EQ at this time".

• I am not going to revise my EQ at this time.

(3) What are possible answers to your current working EQ? 

• Communication Skills
• Experience
• Knowledgable about Technology

Blog 2: Topic Choice

What is your topic and why?

My senior topic is computer hardware and software analysis. This is because this is a field I have experience in, it’s something that I enjoy doing, and it will probably be a future career choice or hobby.

What do you attempt to accomplish this year with this topic?

• ·      Effective I-Poly Citizen: I plan to empathize with the distress of others as the device they use for business in their everyday lives fails to work with their needs.  This relates to me improving as an I-Poly citizen because it strengthens my talent in assisting others and putting myself in their shoes.
• ·      Effective Learner: I will attempt to gain the experience of my mentor. This will make me more effective as a learner because it will give me new perspectives to what I see and learn while in classes.
• ·      Effective Communicator: I plan to meet with the clientele of my mentor.  This will help me become an effective communicator because I will experience firsthand what it’s like to talk with someone who requires technical support.
• ·      Effective User of Technology: I plan to take the job seriously, this will make me a more effective user of technology because it will give me experience in the field and will allow me to work with devices that I may not have been able to work with on my own.