Our OJT Coordinator told us that from now on he will be coaching us, the OJT's, so that he can have the track on our progress in the company. Today, we went to school to ask for our OJT Coordinator to coach us. In hand with the templates he provided, he said that those template should be filled up with the procedures we performed in the company to comply a certain project or exercise. Since we are now tasked to create an exercise, it will serve as the evidences in the system development area of the template. Our OJT Coordinator emphasizes that the template should be shown to him weekly so that he can counter sign the paper as an evidence.
Student's Practicum | Day 3
Unexpectedly, one of our subject facilitator announced yesterday through e-mail that he will be around today by 1pm to check the lacking documents that we needed to submit for complying our MIS subject. Therefore, we have to present ourselves to school so our MIS facilitator would check the documents which means we have to absent in our OJT company. My partner in OJT, John, and I went to the school by 1pm hoping that we can present the documents before 2pm but it didn't went that way. Instead, we went to the company asking them to allow us to absent for 4 hours for such reason and they allowed us.
After the document checking, we went back to the office by 6:30pm. Throughout my duration in the company today, all I did was to continue my study with the framework. Honestly, even though it was only a framework of Php, it was like studying a new language because the commands was new to me.
Before we leave the Php dept today, our supervisor gave us a copy of our template for reporting our progress throughout the week. He said that we will be submitting that report every Friday to him. He also wanted us to master the Php, MySql, JavaScript, and CSS so that it will be easy for us in constructing the exercise he had given yesterday. Today, we consumed 4 hours in the company. Overall, we now have 20 hours in OJT.
After the document checking, we went back to the office by 6:30pm. Throughout my duration in the company today, all I did was to continue my study with the framework. Honestly, even though it was only a framework of Php, it was like studying a new language because the commands was new to me.
Before we leave the Php dept today, our supervisor gave us a copy of our template for reporting our progress throughout the week. He said that we will be submitting that report every Friday to him. He also wanted us to master the Php, MySql, JavaScript, and CSS so that it will be easy for us in constructing the exercise he had given yesterday. Today, we consumed 4 hours in the company. Overall, we now have 20 hours in OJT.
Student's Practicum | Second day experiences in the office.
Yesterday, fifteenth day of April, was the second day of my OJT. Since our schedule by 2pm is in S.E.O. Department, my classmate and I went directly to the office before 2pm comes. Honestly speaking, I just wanted to be assigned in PHP Department because throughout our period in S.E.O. Department yesterday, my classmate and I together with one of the OJT did nothing but browse Internet. The department cater to provide us computer units but not with instructions on what should be done for us to be useful. So, we did nothing but browse the Internet and surf for something interesting about IT world. To maximize my time, I choose to continue my study of the framework that my supervisor in Php Department to me to do. We depart in the department by 5:30pm.
In Php Department, we continue our study in the framework as what our supervisor says. In the midst of studying, he now introduced us the first exercise that we will make in order to examine what we've learned in the framework. The task was to make a shopping cart out of the framework. In my mind, I think it was not that difficult. John and I, since we are partner in the task, should only have to master the framework. We ended up yesterday still testing and studying the functionality of the framework so that we can use it in our task.
Student's Practicum | First day of my on-the-job training.
According to wikipedia.org, "A practicum is a college course, often in a specialized field of study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of a previously studied theory. Practicums (student teaching) are common for education and social work majors." In our university, basically our department which is Institute of Computing, we are directed to undergo 240 hours of practicum which corresponds 3 units and one of the requirements for graduation.
Yesterday, at exactly 1:45pm, I had started my on-the-job training on an IT Solutions Company with one of my classmate. For confidentiality, I will not state what is the name of the company that I refer to. I will reside in the company for 30 days, 8 hours a day. My shift is 2pm until 10pm.
Honestly, I was expecting that we will not end up till 10pm yesterday because I thought the company will only be orienting but it didn't end that way. The company are strict about time. One minute beyond the designated time of in will be considered late. Woah!(hehe), that's a new environment for a tardy person like me.
My classmate and I are designated to be in S.E.O. Department on 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. After which, 5:30 to 10 pm will be our schedule to be transferred to the PHP Department. Upon being acknowledged about the schedule, I was still a bit uneasy. It is because the designation that should be imposed to us was to be in PHP department as a trainee or something but then the S.E.O. position had then come up. At that time, I definitely know what S.E.O. means which is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization but I really don't know what will I do with that. But then, I couldn't do anything but to observe the things that is happening in S.E.O. Department.
As we went in the department, I notice that some of the staff are opening document editors and browser which is also familiar to me. Some of them, I think, were making report of I-don't-know-what. The person in-charge of us in HR had presented us to the supervisor in the department. I haven't given a chance to know the name of the supervisor who handles me but it is certain that she's a lady (hehehe). She instructed me to take the S.E.O. exam for two hours which was posted in a website. Luckily, I ended before the time is up. After that exam, my stay in that department for the day ended.
Following the schedule, we transferred again to the PHP Department. Again, we were being introduced to our supervisor at that department which is now a male. It was then 6pm already when the introduction happened considering that the dinner break in only 30 minute, 6pm to 6:30pm to be exact. So, the supervisor told us first to have our break before our session with him starts.
In hurry, we ate our dinner and then went back to the company before we reach the end of the given break time. This time, I was really pleased because our supervisor is kind and considerate about our situation as an OJT students. The first thing he asked was our knowledge about PHP and how we start coding from scratch. He concluded that since we already know the basics of PHP we should jump now to a new environment using a framework. He introduce a new framework that we should learn in order for us to code faster using a framework than from scratch. Throughout the period, he let us study the framework until the period is up. We logged out at the company at exactly 10:04pm.
Yesterday, at exactly 1:45pm, I had started my on-the-job training on an IT Solutions Company with one of my classmate. For confidentiality, I will not state what is the name of the company that I refer to. I will reside in the company for 30 days, 8 hours a day. My shift is 2pm until 10pm.
Honestly, I was expecting that we will not end up till 10pm yesterday because I thought the company will only be orienting but it didn't end that way. The company are strict about time. One minute beyond the designated time of in will be considered late. Woah!(hehe), that's a new environment for a tardy person like me.
My classmate and I are designated to be in S.E.O. Department on 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. After which, 5:30 to 10 pm will be our schedule to be transferred to the PHP Department. Upon being acknowledged about the schedule, I was still a bit uneasy. It is because the designation that should be imposed to us was to be in PHP department as a trainee or something but then the S.E.O. position had then come up. At that time, I definitely know what S.E.O. means which is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization but I really don't know what will I do with that. But then, I couldn't do anything but to observe the things that is happening in S.E.O. Department.
As we went in the department, I notice that some of the staff are opening document editors and browser which is also familiar to me. Some of them, I think, were making report of I-don't-know-what. The person in-charge of us in HR had presented us to the supervisor in the department. I haven't given a chance to know the name of the supervisor who handles me but it is certain that she's a lady (hehehe). She instructed me to take the S.E.O. exam for two hours which was posted in a website. Luckily, I ended before the time is up. After that exam, my stay in that department for the day ended.
Following the schedule, we transferred again to the PHP Department. Again, we were being introduced to our supervisor at that department which is now a male. It was then 6pm already when the introduction happened considering that the dinner break in only 30 minute, 6pm to 6:30pm to be exact. So, the supervisor told us first to have our break before our session with him starts.
In hurry, we ate our dinner and then went back to the company before we reach the end of the given break time. This time, I was really pleased because our supervisor is kind and considerate about our situation as an OJT students. The first thing he asked was our knowledge about PHP and how we start coding from scratch. He concluded that since we already know the basics of PHP we should jump now to a new environment using a framework. He introduce a new framework that we should learn in order for us to code faster using a framework than from scratch. Throughout the period, he let us study the framework until the period is up. We logged out at the company at exactly 10:04pm.