Journal #2If I were to choose next year’s theme, it would be “100 Years in the Future”. For this theme, contestants would have to choose three aspects of their lives today, such as education, technology, medicine, fashion, entertainment, or more, and explain how they would be different in 100 years. I would love to see what others predict the future would look like. I think this would be a good theme because it doesn’t require as much outside work as this year’s theme did, it allows for infinite creativity with no wrong answers, and gives the creator the power to show their own personality and creative ideas throughout the website. Everyone would have extremely different, unique takes on the theme, which I think is important in a contest like this, where it is important to stand out. Journal #3Looking back at my essay, I can see the things that I should have done and then expanded on during my presentation. For example, I didn't really talked about the elements of my website like the color scheme, background, etc., but I did when I presented. I would've just added the things that I missed, like explaining what a Prezi is, or add what my previous theme was before I changed it. These things came up more naturally when I was presenting, especially after hearing other's feedback before my own presentation. Journal #4Looking at the presentation spreadsheet is both helpful and frustrating! I love that I have some feedback and things to improve on for my next presentation, but looking back on it now and seeing that I could have done so much better by just changing a few things. If I had just said, "I play volleyball, basketball, and softball", that would have eliminated the majority of my questions! Also, seeing that I was saying "like" and "um", fidgeting, and not making eye contact with everyone just proves that my presentation skills aren't as great as I thought they were. I wish I had more opportunities to present, because I have only given about six or seven presentations throughout high school, and even fewer by myself. Journal #5I think the most valuable suggestion that I got throughout the trimester was to tip the Gatorade bottle on my banner sideways. When Eva came in the first time, this was one of her suggestions after we talked about making my banner bigger. I agreed with her that it needed to be bigger, but I was worried about it taking up to much space vertically. That is when she gave me the idea of tipping the bottle sideways. This was an awesome idea because everyone who saw my website encouraged me to make my banner bigger. After I made this change, my website looked a lot better. Journal #6This class was one of the most challenging classes I have ever taken. The amount of hard work, personal investment, creativity, and self-motivation needed to succeed in Web Design is unique only to this class. The best part of this class was that the material was not the most difficult part of this class, but the creativity and innovation that was required in order to use the material in a practical, hands-on setting. This class challenged me because I am usually not very quick to make decisions, and I learned the hard way that it’s much easier to spend a little bit more time to come up with a great idea, rather than come up with a mediocre solution and just go with it. This class was my most challenging class yet, but also my favorite, and I am definitely taking it again next year!
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Natalie S.I am a senior at Lake Shore High School and I go to Macomb Community College through the Early College program. I play volleyball, basketball, and softball, and I will play softball at Hillsdale College next year. Archives
December 2015
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