http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/sep2009/ca20090929_228578.htm

I like this article. I wanted to be sure to remember to share this with my students when they start their websites.

For our first assignment in Graphic Design, we were to view ancient manuscripts and write a reflection of the use of graphic design even at that time. The following is my reflection on The Book of Kells:

Even in ancient time scholars knew the importance of making text visually appealing. In The Book of Kells the illustration “A Page of the Eusebian Cannons” is a perfect example of all four design elements in CRAP. The author uses contrasting colors in order the make the piece visually appealing. Further, he uses repetition of shape in each of the arches, the hanging columns, and shapes of the people or animals. The piece is balanced through the alignment of the hanging columns both in shape, and also through the use of shape on the inside of the columns as well.  The piece is busy. However, your eye tends to stop in four main areas and the use of white space balances the busy areas.

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Our first web conference was pretty casual. We discussed the ancient manuscripts we are to be analyzing and where we can go on the web to find others we may want to use.  We also talked about the CRAP method of design in regards to our first assignment. One interesting thing that Dr. Abernathy suggested was that we create a Facebook page for our class so that we could use that as a meeting place to gather ideas as well.

Web Conference 7/6

This conference was extremely helpful with any last minute questions we had before submitting our assignments. It was nice to see that others had questions on how to submit our items this time given that the way that we submitted this time was different from the other times. In the past, we chose our course number under types of artifacts. However, our course number was not listed. TK20 intimidates me given that is the official submission tool for all of our major course assignments. Dr. Abernathy also talked briefly with us about our upcoming courses. I appreciate that she gives us helpful hints for our courses coming up. I am also excited that she posted the APA template for our action research plan. I understand that is a helpful tool to have for course 5397.

Web conference 6/29

This web conference felt very informal since most of us are in the thick of our video project. It was nice to hear Dr. Abernathy talk about the ISTE conference. It makes me feel very motivated to continue my education with technology. She also reminded us that the tech program we are in will definitely prepare us for prinicipalship as well. It will definitely be nice to have the technology background when looking for a principals position. Lastly, she reminded us what is due for week 4. Which is really just continuing on with our projects and keeping track in our google documents how we are contributing to the final product.

Web conference 6/12

This particular web conference focused on the two assignments we had due week two. The assignemtns were to create a podcast on how to use Audacity and a podcast on how to use Movie Maker.  The way the assignments were written seemed to be confusing everyone and there were lots of questions of how many actual assignments were due.  We also talked about tutorials we could access in regards to video editing and different software links that were available. I was relieved to learn that both podcasts could be audio only.  We also focused on trying to secure a collaborative partner to read our scripts.