Sunday, December 20, 2009

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. :)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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!

Friday, December 11, 2009

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.

Monday, December 7, 2009

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.