Thursday 16th January 2014

Today, we continued with our designs in the dt lab. Mr Wafula later in the lesson also told us that the design stage will be due on Monday. When Mr Wafula said that I got stressed and immediately got into work. Honestly, I did so muck wok today that really chilled me down. Last lesson, I had drawn the second design so today, I labelled my design and also drew and indicated the wood joints that would be used in that particular rack. The second design was a more complex design than the first one although first design took very long to finish since it was the first design and was clueless and what to add and do in the designs.I referred to my first design a lot for the second design which gave me guidance on what I need to add and what I have left out. After labeling my design I moved on to testing the design against the design specs which took me only 10 minutes. I had the table of the design specs and the scoring column already printed out which I stuck on the design and only had to fill it out. With time still left I started evaluating my design but soon it was time. I was more than satisfied with what I had done today and also finished evaluating the design by the end of the day so that I would not forget about the points I wanted to include in the evaluation. The skills that I worked and improved on were time-management, organizational, labeling, evaluating, testing and designing skills.