602 Course Reflections

I just uploaded my final 602 project to Blackboard and I feel so relieved to be finished with the course!  As I said in my previous post, this last project was tough, but also enjoyable.  I think I did a good job and I'm happy with the result.  Is it perfect?  Of course not!  But I poured my heart and soul in it and that's what matters.

I didn't have too many expectations at the beginning of the course because I didn't really know what it was going to be about.  The first few weeks were tough as I struggled to work with the new tools and make sure I was adequately participating in the discussion forum and commenting on other people's blogs.  After a while, that all became second nature and I found that I enjoyed reading others blogs and seeing what they did with the same tools that I was working with.

I tend to learn new things quickly and this class was no exception.  I felt like I learned how to use various tools quickly and was able to put together some nice products.  I have learned so much about all of the things that are available to us as teachers (and librarians).  I had never heard of most of these tools and I'm super excited to incorporate some of them into to my classes next school year.  I'm also going to be sharing what I learned with others in my department.  This is some really useful stuff!

While frustrating at times, overall this has been an enjoyable experience.  Though I am looking forward to a few weeks of real summer with no classes!

Final Project!!

Making this final project presentation was difficult, but I actually somewhat enjoyed it.  Once I got inspiration for how I wanted it to look, that set the ball rolling and it wasn't too tough from there.  My inspiration came from the "books" picture I found on creative commons.  It was a very simple stack of books with a black background and I really liked the look. So I strived to continue that "look" throughout my presentation.

For the font, I went with one of the suggestions from Garr Reynold's book. On page 40, he has a list of reliable typefaces for presentations.  I chose Rockwell because I liked the look of that the most when I typed them all into PowerPoint.

To figure out how I wanted the overall presentation to look, again I went to our textbook and looked at the many examples in Chapter 10.  I knew that images were super important and that text should be minimal.  I don't think mine looks nearly as good as any of these in the book, but I am happy with my result. I put it below to share.  It doesn't have as much meaning without my speaker notes, but I do think you get the gist of what I was going for by just looking through my slides.

Morsey 602 Final Project from meganmorsey