5366Reflection+-+Digital+Graphics

Digital Graphics was one of my favorite courses of the Educational Technology Leadership program. The entire course was centered around creating the final product of a school newsletter. Creating my newsletter (below) took a lot of work, but it was very enjoyable work. The class was very interesting in showing how advertisements and movie posters are not just a picture on a wall, but they are in fact well planned out in how they lead your eye to see certain things. To me the class was very interesting, and I felt I gained a lot of knowledge in how to best create a way to inform the public about school or district happenings.

This class has made me want to learn more about the subject. Since completing this course, I have been able to use these lessons learned while updating my school's website, and have learned much more as I am sure that I will learn even more in the future. Our principal and I often discuss what will make our website better, and will impact how our important information can best be displayed to reach our target audience. As the old saying goes, "Two heads are better than one," and this helps me as the web administrator for our school come up with better ideas and graphics for the website. In the future, I would love to be able to put our newsletter for our school completely online, as I believe it would reach a larger audience and save our school a lot of money. The problem is, however, that many of our students are not able to afford a computer and/or internet access, and therefore it cannot be a stand alone way to reach all of our parents.