Week 12: Final Week

Hello again!

Welcome to my final blog post of this semester! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It absolutely flew by, didn’t it?!

This week I will be finishing off my blog and website for this semester;There was a lot of work involved in both of these assignments. It was continuous work throughout the semester, which I found difficult to keep up with. Reflecting back on my Week 11 blog I will be mentioning similar topics for example designing my website the struggles that came along with it.

As you might know if you read my week 11 blog post I mentioned that I used Google Sites to create the website. At first I thought it was really difficult to use. (I still do)

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https://sites.google.com/a/cojusd.org/teacher-tech-welcome-to-grayskull/google-sites

What I like about Google Sites is it is really easy to access if you want to make a website or just practice your website design skills all you need is a gmail account. If not don’t worry it only takes a matter of minutes to create one. This blog and website are both part of an assignment for the same module called ‘Writing for New Media’.

I thoroughly enjoyed this module this semester. It was extremely different to the rest of my modules that I studied. It was a lot more independent for example we were given instructions on what to do and we had to do it.  Everyone in this module had access to guidelines we had to follow to create both the blog and the website. I think I needed more time to fulfill the website as much as possible but I did my best in the time given. They must both ensure a certain amount of criteria and information to pass the module. The blog and website are both worth 45% each and the remaining 10% will be going for participation/attendance.

This semester in general was a tough one for me, especially after coming back from Erasmus but it didn’t take me long to get back into the swing of things. Now unfortunately this semester is coming to an end and this is my final year as a 3^rd year student. Next week is a study week which will come in handy and my exams will commence in the first week in May.

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https://www.videoblocks.com/video/the-end-sign-in-neon-style-turning-on-b2zime7ein6njxdl

Week 11: The end is near!

It’s now week 11 and its time for another Irish essay to be submitted. This one was more difficult as it had to be 2,000 words and about one or more of the poems we studied this semester. I had to include background information, discuss themes, images, metaphors and any hidden messages and include any references as always. It’s an easy mistake to forget them, it happened to me before! This essay is worth 20% of my final grade, again I will be hoping for a high enough grade in this as I done a lot of research for it and spent a lot of time on it.

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This week I’m also continuing to design a website. The website is part of my module called ‘Writing for New Media’. I really enjoy this module but I have to admit designing a website is very difficult and takes a lot of work.

Things I found difficult:

• Following a long list of steps/ instruction’s in order to create the website.
• I wasn’t used to using Google Sites.
• Creating different pages.
• Deleting things by accident and having to do them all over again. (sigh)
• It was a long process to create the website I could have done with starting it at the beginning of the semester to improve more on the website itself as I am not too happy with it at the moment.

I found these difficult as I am a visual learner. I like to be showed how to do something rather than given instructions on how to do it but everybody is different.

This benefited me as it pushed me to use my own initiative and make sure that all steps were completed to the best of my ability. ‘Google Sites’ is really good and useful if you are interested in creating your own website or just to practice website design or even if you are interested on sampling website design.

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https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-google-sites-and-why-use-it-3486337