Semester Reflection

Production 1 was my first official class in my graduate program. So naturally I was feeling lots of different emotions. I was excited to start, but I was also nervous. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do all the work. After the first day of class, and after I saw all of the coursework, I was very thankful that I had just purchased a new lap top. I knew there was no way I would have been able to complete the assignments on my dinosaur of a lap top that I had been using for years from when I was an undergrad at Seton Hall.

After seeing and hearing about all of the assignments, I was definitely nervous about being able to complete them. The digital story assignments definitely worried me the most, especially after the class when we looked at Premier Elements. My head felt like it was going to explode that day! I figured that the digital stories would be the most difficult, and that the poster assignment would be the easiest for me. Well, I was wrong. Although the digital stories took a lot of planning and prep work, I enjoyed doing these assignments the most.I loved how they turned out, and enjoyed seeing other peoples'. The poster project was actually more challenging to me. I am more tactile and like to do real life posters, and discovered this upon setting up the poster for class. I also was under the impression that we would be able to pick our own topic for the poster, so I had a topic in my head the whole semester. After I found out the topic had to be something in the book, I sort of lost my passion for the project. It was also hard for me to find a template I liked and re-did it several times until I was somewhat happy with it.

I also enjoyed completing the Wiki. It was fun to work with my group, and after it was all done, I personally felt very accomplished! I really did enjoy learning all of the new skills in this class, and am thankful I feel more up to date with technology. One thing I wish we could have spent some more time on was PowerPoint. Some of the undergrads did some really cool PowerPoint work and I would have loved to see how it was done. All in all, it was a great class!!

Social Networking and Education~Poster

While creating this poster I kept in mind that for it to be most effective it should be neat, clear, concise, and have some color. Keeping the font consistent is also important as well as not having an overload of text or pictures.

Poster project 12.10

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