Life in Color {Spring23-EME2040}

     This class has been a really fun and beneficial experience for me. This course provided me with the ability to grow in my technology skills, and critically think about how I could apply those to an educational setting. I think the hardest thing in this class has been the blogs, surprisingly. While they are not objectively difficult, per se, attempting to formulate my personal thoughts about what I have been learning into a public medium, has been a growing process. I loved how we were able to get creative with assignments and try a lot of different websites, apps, and softwares. One thing that I would want to improve on or modify in the future as a teacher would be to include more group work for in-class discussions and activities. I would also not have group assignments or projects either. Personally, I feel that group projects or assignments can be more tedious than beneficial because it requires coordinating schedules and figuring out how to collaborate fairly and effectively.

      I really enjoyed getting to work on this website design assignment for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it gave me a chance to be creative, envisioning myself as a teacher preparing a website for her class. Secondly, I gained experience working with Weebly, an entirely new platform for me to use. I also got the chance to practice applying the CRAP principles as I designed my class website. In particular I really spent time ensuring that I had repetition of colors and fonts throughout. I really used a light, almost sea-foam blue, light green, and darker greens and blues in the pictures that I included of places around the world in nature. And I made sure that all of the title and body fonts were consistent on each page. I can use this as a future teacher to create a bridge between my students' parents or guardians and myself. It will allow me to share important information, announcements, and links to other resources more easily and on a 24/7 available basis. Here is my website