FINALS WEEK

Its finals week! Everything is complete and drop boxed. Now it is just time to wait for the grades. The semester has really flown and I have learned a lot. I used software on my computer that otherwise would never have been touched if it wasn't for this class. With the Demos done in class I know have a lot more knowledge of some pretty cool tricks, I made sure to save all of the Jings to my computer so that someday if I forget I can look back and find them. Its been a great learning experience. The class was hard and challenging, but this makes the end result that much more satisfying. :)

Week Fourteen

I just finished up my desktop publishing assignments! So excited, thrilled and relieved that I am finished ahead of the deadline. If I would not have had those planning documents, creating the documents themselves would have been a lot harder and taken up a lot of time. Glad that I did them! :) Now its time to finish my web publishing assignment, this one is coming along, but creating all of the pages and links is becoming very time consuming. I love being able to finally mark these things off of my check list for finals week!

Week Thirteen

It's the week before finals! The semester is closing and fast. Planning for the website design and desktop publishing were due. As much as those planning documents were a pain in the butt to do, I really do think my work will benefit from them. Now everything is laid out for me and I know exactly what I have to do in order to create my documents. I have started creating my desktop publishing documents and my work is really coming nicely because of the planning. It is nice to have everything laid out in front of me, telling me exactly what I need to put where. I am excited to put together my documents and new web pages. Hopefully these artifacts will be something I can use in the future, just might have to tweak them a little to fit the needs of the school.

Week Twelve

This week the video projects were due! I am so glad that the project is finally finalized. I could have done a better job with planning but I think my final outcome turned out really nice. I usually struggle with video projects so I am pretty proud of how it turned out. I didn't like using Microsoft Movie Maker because it lacks a lot of properties. I would have loved to have played background music all throughout my video even when there were speaking parts. But doing that on this software was almost impossible. This is a reason why it would be nice to have access to Mac software on our laptops. IMovie would have been amazing for this project. I wish out programs could have the option of using MACs.

Week Eleven

Even though I was not present in class, and my absence was excused, being absent at such a critical point in the semester is not something I would recommend. I am behind as it is in the class and now i find myself falling even shorter. Deadlines are coming quick and its going to take a lot of motivation and time to push through everything.

I learned we are getting a break from class in order to work on our projects. This is give me a lot more time to get things done and possibly a few extra hours of sleep at night. The extra time is just what I need in order to get these projects done!

Week Ten

Its week Ten in Media 366! The semester is almost over with Thanksgiving right around the corner. This week we only had Tuesday class. World Wide Web and search engines were the theme of the day. I am excited to get out there and create a custom search engine. I didn't even know that one could do such a thing! HOW COOOOOOL! I think it could be a really neat teaching tool when providing students resources and credible sights for their research projects.

Week Nine

Two more projects are introduced this week.... along with the trunk monkeys! I see these upcoming desktop publishing and web design products as being very good learning tools and maybe even something to use for in the future when I am actually out there and teaching. I think that in classes like this it is nice to have big projects that allow students to have a big opportunity to demonstrate all of the skills they have acquired. However I am nervous that I will get busy again in the next couple weeks and start to fall behind.... with good planning tools that have been provided I hope to over come procrastination.