Reflection #9: The Holy Week

This week, the professor decided to bless us with no homework to do over our very well deserved free time. However, I have taken this time to keep up with the blog and I'm making sure all my posts are neat and have all the necessary information to meet the requirements of this long term project.

This blog will be evaluated at the end of the semester and graded as a partial requirement for the class so, I took this time to give it some much needed love. I transcribed all the work I have done on the class' website and posted it on my box account so that I'm able to add it on my posts here as an embed widget and provide my readers with a better experience and all the work in the class.

Since there's not much to say about this class, I will talk about my week for the rest of this post. This week has been full of work work work and more work.

My other professors gave me a bunch of work to do over the week so I had enough to keep busy everyday of the week. However, that didn't stop me from having a good time on my free time or from spending time with my family (which is what the week should be for but some professors have no respect). Overall, I had a nice week, I made time for everything important and I'm ready to go back to work on Monday.











LOL... that was a joke, I'm not ready at all.

Reflection #8: Google Slides

This week has been one of the most challenging weeks in this class. The assignment the professor gave up was a complete nightmare for control freaks like myself. He sent us an e-mail saying that we had to do a presentation on "how to create an effective presentation." We had to incorporate everything about the topic and include different visual resources BUT we also had to do it as a group... the WHOLE group. The entire class was a participant in this Google Slides presentation assignment. We were all just doing our thing separately without even acknowledging one another but it was a disaster because some people were deleting each other's work and writing over others and it was just awful. More than 30 people adding stuff to a presentation at the same time was an experience i hope to never have again.

Even though that was a horrible experience, I have to say that the tool itself is pretty great for doing online presentations without having to meet face to face and having many people in a group... maybe not 30 but if you have about 5 people in a group it will work just fine and the communication will definitely be more effective that way.

Click here to see the presentation that the whole class did and down here is an online reaction that we were required to upload to the website regarding the experience of working with 30+ people in a presentation.

Reflection #7: Flyers, Bulletins and Word Art

The class is becoming more and more interesting as the weeks go by. I feel like i discover something new every day. This week, we started doing a flyer with Microsoft Word. I didn't even know that was possible. I thought you needed a special kind of program or software to prepare such things. We worked with shapes, shadows, lines, word art and even pictures that we got to edit with GIMP. We also added text to the flyer and a picture of ourselves as kind of an "author's signature"

The experience overall was great, we got to apply previous knowledge of the things we have been learning in class while also obtaining new knowledge about other things.

Here is my flyer. I really enjoyed making this