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Technology!

The technology tools we'll be using in this course are all ones that I am at least somewhat familiar with, image editing and graphics creation are two things I've spent some time working on before, and while I haven't really blogged or hosted a website in any compete sense, I have at least dabbled in how to do it. I am very much looking forward to using these tools in this class to create a unique learning experience that I have never seen before.

Most of the courses I've taken here have been pretty cut and dry, you learn material, you do homework over the material, then you take a test over the material. You perform an experiment and then write a lab report over it. You compete a design project and write a report over it. But this course is completely different, it's fluid and the scheduling is open for however I want to do it, as long as I turn things in on time. As someone who occasionally runs on some odd hours, I appreciate the grace period that we have to turn in our assignments.

The web skill I would like to work on the most is probably graphics creation. I've worked with it before, but I've never gotten to the point where I've been happy with what I was able to make, and I'm hoping that this course will give me the incentive I need to produce better graphic content. Until then, I'll have to stick to the simpler things.

The Simpler Things (Personal photo and editing)
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