Final Blog Assignment

1. You have created a Blog and have been Blogging for 16 weeks.

What is your opinion of "Blogging"?

Blogging is interesting. It can be used for a large amount of different things, whether personal or professional. I think that blogging is an interesting tool to use to effectively communicate how you feel about things or to give ideas or to inspire others or anything else. I think that blogging is cool; I have done it before so it is nothing that is terribly new to me, but it was cool to use for a professional reason as opposed to a personal reason.

2. Did you find this to be a useful reflection / communication tool?

I think that blogging is a great tool for communication and reflection. It gives a place for people to write their thoughts, feelings, ideas and whatnot out into a place that could either be public or private, and any other person can see. It is also a great resource for being able to go back and look at what you have previously written to read and reflect upon it. It is cool to see how you change from post to post and throughout time.

3. Would you use a Blog in your art classroom? If yes, how. If no, why not?

I would use a blog in my classroom as either a tool for my students to use and do weekly or biweekly assignments on or as a tool for my students to follow a blog that I write. It would be a strictly professional blog that would be there as a resource for students to look at and to find new artists and movements and facts from. Or I would give them assignments that would pertain to art and sometimes their personal lives. It would be used as both a reflecting, analyzing and sharing too.

Blog Assignment Thirteen.

From the tutorial videos I learned how to use and control master pages. I planned on using a master page because I encountered one while making my newsletter. I thought that it would be a good idea to have a base page for my digital portfolio. That was it would create a nice flow and things would look simple, organized and clean from page to page. Managing pages taught me how to manage pages, haha. It will definitely help out when I am working and I need to move whole pages or to copy a page or template. Using layers will definitely help me out when I am creating my pages to help make it look fancier and nicer.

I think that using master pages will probably help me out the most. I like a very simple and clean look to design projects and I think that I will definitely be using that in this. I also like to incorporate the same elements from page to page to make them more aesthetically pleasing.