Work review, part one – programming

This is the first part of some work that I am doing to review my position as an E-learning Advisor. The job has become very big, sprawling across every king of activitity related to e-learning. Now I really need to get a representation of all of its aspects, and consider priorities. To start of with, I'm just listing aspects of what I do, and rating each of them. The rating is a rating of how much I enjoy doing them. As I only ever enjoy things that I think I'm actually good at (or maybe I become good at things that I enjoy), this is the best way for me to start to get a sense of what I am really good at (and what I need to prioritise, and how I can best work with the rest of the team). I'll then get comments from my colleagues to give me a more substantial reality check.

So here's the first list, starting with some activities in software development…

• Working with people in their context to identify key functionality that will make a difference to them.
• Using my own experience of the academic process to understand and empathise with their academic/personal process.
• Creating compact and self-contained bits of web functionality that add interactivity, community and academic-usefulness to web content.
• Creating ways of building links between content and activities in separate systems to make a more cohesive experience.
• Getting feedback from people, seeing it making a difference.
• Writing flexible, resuseable, extendable OO 'business logic' code.
• Using a sophisticated OO IDE (Eclipse) that makes writing code faster and more reliable.
• Good well planned testing.
• Rapid user interface development (Javascript).
• Creating data-storage solutions that give power to end-users in an intuitive and easy to access way.
• Desigining the visual appearance of applications and pages.
• Creating designs in Photoshop.
• Creating designs with css.

Robert O'Toole : 05 Dec 2004 10:03 |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem