Year 12, Unit 1, Task 5, D1

In this report I will be discussing the different interpersonal and written communication skills I used during this project.

Throughout this unit, I have been uploading my work to Google's blogger site. The reasoning behind this is because my teacher can access my work on my blogger as they are an author on my site. This therefore allows them to comment on my work, letting me know if I have successfully completely the task and feedback will also be given on what well went, and what could have been done better. It is an easy way to communicate and enables us to know what we have to do to improve our work. Blogger is used for all of my work, and if very useful and effective. Therefore I do not think there is any disadvantages in blogger.

You can present work in a various ways using Microsoft Office documents. I used PowerPoint for Task 2. PowerPoint is a useful way to present work, through slides. I had to describe the main principles of effective communication, give the barriers to effective communication and explain what the mechanisms were which could reduce the barriers. PowerPoint was useful for my Task 2 as there was a lot for me to write, therefore I could split up the work onto different slides with headings making it easier to understand and read through without it being all together and getting complicated.

In task 3 we had to make a development plan and I used Google calender. On my development plan I had to chose dates to work on a skill that I wasn't sure on how to do effectively. I was able to edit my calender and what I was doing on each date to remind myself of how I done the skill by putting in where I got the information from. Google calender also reminded me when I had to do my skill which was good as that way I wouldn't have forgot to do it. The disadvantage of using Google calender was that I found it hard to upload it to Blogger and had to look on the internet on how to do it.

Finally, verbal communication has helped when trying to complete my project as if I didn't know what I was doing from just reading the task on the unit then I could ask the teacher. Although reading something it good as you can go back to it numerous of times, if you don't understand what it means then being told verbally makes the task more understandable. However, the disadvantage may be that you cannot remember what has just been said and this can cause you to either have to ask again or trying to work it out for yourself. Verbal communication is also good for feedback, we get feedback on Blogger, however, verbal feedback is good as well as you can be told more directing what you can do to improve. This helped me in task 2, when I was told what more mechanisms I could have used in order to reduce barriers to effective communication.