This Class

This has been a great class.  One of the reasons I signed up for it to being with was honestly to get my scheduled adjusted to fit my financial aid requirements while still adhering to my work schedule.  In looking at my options, though, I had a feeling this one would be beneficial to me in my future.  I feel like I made the right choice, too!  Since I am planning on becoming a professional photographer for my career, I'm going to rely heavily on computers and the internet in getting my work out there and getting it to the standard it needs to be.  This class has been an absolutely perfect way to get my feet wet and getting familiar with some of the basics on creating websites and such.  Also, starting to learn it this early on gives me more time to sharpen my skills and knowledge so when I get to the point where I have to have my own website, it will hopefully turn out with a clean, professional look very early on.  Being able to achieve that will help me get work because I won't have to go through that awkward website stage where I'm trying to figure things out.  This will all be a huge advantage to me and make things easier as I try to get myself out in the world.  I have a feeling that, starting out, I'll probably focus on some kind of WYSIWYG website when I first start out.  Until I become more comfortable with HTML, and even more so CSS, that would be the best way to go.  I look forward to learning more about CSS and really being able to play around with styles and the freedom it will offer me.

It's hard figuring out which module has been my favorite.  I've really been enjoying the class as a whole.  I would have to say, though, that the HTML module would have to be the one I'd pick.  I think the main reason being that it was a brand new experience for me over the others.  I've played around with wikis and web sites and blogs before, but not once had I written a single code of HTML.  It was nice getting to finally cross that barrier and play around with it.  And as I said in the module's assignment, I really enjoyed getting that chance.  It was definitely a great opportunity and it's something I look forward to learning even more about.  On the flip side, there really hasn't been a module in this class that I've disliked.  I'd say the one I was least enthusiastic about was probably creating the wiki page.  I still liked the module, sure, but it wasn't something I've been overall interested and invested in.  It's still a good thing to know about, though.  I feel like it's good to know about how wikis work so you can help see what could be resourceful information and not.  In this day and age, where anyone can get on the internet and say whatever they want, you have to be careful when gathering information for anything.  Being able to see that side of a wiki helps when navigating future wikis.

I'm excited about the opportunities this class has opened up for me.  It's been a great learning experience, and a lot of fun.  I felt I made a great choice taking this class, because I'll be depending on all kinds of web publishing a lot once I really get photography as my career.  Creating and managing my own websites will be an essential part of my trade, with the way technology is now.  This has been a great start.

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