This class has definitely made me more aware of design in
my projects. Looking back at Week 1, I realized that I am starting to analyze
advertising more – both print and commercials. I find myself looking at logos,
colors and white spaces to see how well the space is filled. I LOVE the new
letterhead that I created and have had several compliments on it from people at
work. I even had another teacher ask me to help her fix the letterhead that she
uses for her club! My favorite assignment was making the ad for the toy store.
I loved playing with the same images and forming a bunch of different layouts.
I also really loved playing with color (I love my pink!). The font exercise was
also very eye-opening. I never really paid attention too much to which fonts I
was using. As someone who uses MLA all of the time in my classrooms, I always
seem to fall back on Times New Roman. However, now I am more aware of which
fonts I use and I think about what message I want to get across before I pick
my fonts!
Mostly, I have learned just how versatile a program that
Word can be! I tend to rely on information that I know when I am working on new
techniques. I really challenged myself to try new things but I was surprised at
how much I was able to do with the Word program! I loved using Word to create
the book covers. It was interesting to see how different I could make 2 book
covers for books with the same title! I liked thinking about the colors, fonts
and images that went into it. I really think that I can take some of these
design elements and use them with some of the assignments that I create for my
students!
