Blog Post #7

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!