At the beginning of the term, I considered myself a technologically capable person. I came in with satisfactory skills in the usual: word, powerpoint, internet efficiency, photo editing, etc. However, even coming in fairly adept with technology, this course broadened my horizons in digital media. I had never worked with editing video on this level, and I had not been an avid blogger before this either. My view of media did not change: I still think it is a useful, ever-changing, force to be reckon with. What did change, however, was my perspective; like I mentioned before I have a much broader understanding of digital media. I would have liked to maybe learn more about computer generated graphics, for instance instead of taking a picture and uploading it, learning how to create a graphic. That being said, I think that in order to stay up to date on new media technology, one must constantly be up on the new trends. As soon as you fall behind, catching up is going to be trickier and trickier at the rate that things are changing these days. I'd like to think that I'll stay up to date on new trends because I see the value in them, I just have been lucky this semester because I had a class that allowed me to do so... Without this class I do not know if I'll have a whole lot of time while I'm in school to really stay up to date on technology.
REFLECTING ON SPRING SEMESTER COURSES
REFLECTING ON THE SCHOOL YEAR
