So after a grueling quarter I must say my technological advances have been great. I did my first podcast, maintained my first blog, built a website with a group, built a website by myself from the ground up all by myself (something I never would have imagined being able to do), worked with dreamweaver and illustrator for the first time, refreshed my skills in indesign, built up my barely there skills in photoshop and did several other assignments from creating a business card to a brochure.
I discovered I enjoy blogging. I think I will continue to blog, probably on a different subject though and I might consider trying out tumblr since it seems to be pretty popular among my friends. This website does a pretty good job comparing blogspot to tumblr: Tumblr vs Blogger: The Blogging Face-off . The more that I think about it blogging would be a great way to continue the idea of my website, since the set up is already there and it's easy to post pictures and blogging seems to be a great forum for reviews.
As far as keeping up with my social media site, I now feel like I would die without pinterest. I am following 66 pinners and have 37 pinners following me. I have 278 pins across 10 different boards from fashion to food. My pinterst accoung: http://pinterest.com/kmoores98/
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After just wrapping up our big project of designing our own website. I have mixed feeling. I'm am glad that it's done, but there is so much more I would love to add. There are things I want to fix and change, but I just don't have the time now. I feel like a half an hour once every weeks of in class time on the website would have helped because it's such a big requirement, but I'm not sure it worked out for me fine this way, but there were some things I missed that probably could have been fixed with some more class time. I would have preffered to have had tuesday and thursday of this week to work on our websites and than came in and presented my website during finals week.
When it comes to the indesign programs I had a lot of fun using them and learning about them. Indesign is my favorite program. I had a lot of fun designing our book, which was probably my favorite project of the class and creating my brochure because I love the way it turned out and it looks very proffesional. Photoshop is probably the program I am least proffeciant in, partically because I dreaded using it I never understood it in high school when I tried learning it and everything just seemed so much more complicated. I really understood arranging my content in indesign either sending images or boxes to the back or just backwards, I got, but when it came to the layers in photoshop I hated it. I was always clicking on the wrong thing or making layers I didn't mean to and losing the layers I was trying to make.
Overall this is one of my favorite classes I have taken at Western I think that learning these programs is very valuable and will prove to be highly beneficial in my future. I would suggest it to any student.
Below is an article talking about Adobe products in education written by: Christopher Dawson
Adobe nails the value question with Creative Cloud and announces scholarships to boot
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