EDLD5366+Reflections

EDLD5366 Reflections: Digital Graphics

In this course, I really enjoyed learning about how to create a newsletter. The specifics of appropriate font, color scheme, margins, picture clarity, captions, etc., were all helpful tools for me in creating a newsletter that is pleasing to the eye. I had previously created a newsletter and had learned some basics of layout and images selection. After the new knowledge acquired in this course, I would change so much about my previous newsletters to make them more readable and more appealing to people. In my own experience, I know that I will be less likely to take the time to read something if it is not pleasing to my eye. In this course I was able to learn why things are and are not pleasing to the eye, and the specific ways that you can change things so that people will want to read them or look at them.

The Golden Ratio and the Rule of Thirds both made a lot of sense to me. The course went through a movie poster and dissected why it worked for the purpose that it was created for. This helped me to apply what I was learning and see it in action in the real world. As I was creating my newsletter, I had lots of support from others on my campus. They actually wanted me to continue doing a school newsletter after this project had been turned in because of the outcome of my newsletter. I tried to share some of what I was learning about how to make a newsletter that works for people, but everyone seemed to just want me to do it for them, rather than letting me share with them what I was learning. I was fascinated with what I was learning, and so I wanted to be able to share it with others and see us use it together on our campus. There seemed to be more relief that I knew how to do a good newsletter rather than a desire to have a team of us working on it together. I would like to learn more about this and would also like to have more practice and experience with it so that I can get better at it. I was pleased with my final product that I did for the course, but would like to be able to produce something even more advanced. I used Microsoft Office tools to complete that project, and I would like to know about more tools that are available beyond that. I was puzzled by the fact that people I work with were not just an interested in the information from this course as I was. My hunger for knowledge is insatiable, and I was surprised by the fact that others were apathetic towards it. That is true in all areas, but this is the area in which I experienced it.