It's hard to say goodbye...

Well, Who would have thought that we would become more involved than we were? I enjoyed the presentations and had a great time in this class. Guys... you did a great job on your web 2.0 project. It was fun and exciting to see what everyone has come up with. I will miss not having to go to school in the fall. I am done with the program after the completion of 797 in the summer. I do wish all of you luck in your careers and please, keep in touch. I had a great time in ITEC 830 and it was wonderful to work with so many wonderful people.

Mary

update 4/17/07

Well spring break has come and gone and I am no further today than yesterday... if that makes sense tell me so I understand too. Okay now for the updates. The 826 national project is coming along fine. Kate, Deb, Erica and I are all excited to be working on this project. We have met with Joel and talked about the needs for 826. We showed him our mock-up front page and he gave us some feed back as to what he would like to see. Oh yeah, we are designing a website for young writers who belong to the 826 foundation. I can't believe the semester is almost over with. It seems as if we just started. Does anyone else feel like that? Too much to do, so little time. 4 weeks and counting.

mary

Happy Birthday... No hot dog story here

Happy Birthday To Me
Happy Birthday To Me
Happy Birthday Dear Mary
Happy Birthday To Me....

new thought on pgs. 89-128

I found these pages to be rewarding in the fact that they show ways to incorporate daily situations into the design process. I have to agree with the statement mentioned in the story section of "I learn more from listening to stories than reading technical material." ( I might have left out a few words)

The one thing I thought about with this section is, a story is a symphony; it is constructed to bring empathy or play while everyone takes with them their own meaning(s) from the story.

Pink has made me think about what it means to design.

I need to design so that learners can take with them a piece of instruction that has meaning and purpose in their life. I think that this also reflects why school is so boring for students today. It seems to me that technology and life is so fast paced that children get bored too quickly, and to the right brain child, who wants to learn about math or science when they can think about creating?

Well that is my story and I'm sticking to it.

Mary

week 7 reflection

I have to say that I agree with Erica's statement "The handout with the Visual Language hierarchy kept me more engaged than the other handout." The combination of the two handouts gave me a way to compare and contrast the way we layout our information. It brings to mind for me as to how much text and imagery should we supply to get our point across? Also, the presentations in class were great. I liked the tagging presentation.

ITEC Social Hour(s)

If you didn't go, you missed a great time. It was still going strong at 9:30pm when I left. (Erica I want that cake!) It was so much fun to sit around and talk about whatever popped up. If you missed this one, you should go to the next one. Who needs peachy puffs when you have BEER, COHORTS, FOOD, and FUN? See you next time.

5 photo story telling

http://mlowery.blogspot.com/2007/02/who-am-i.html

My link for my story since it was not shown in class. I didn't upload it to iLearn. I just put it in my blog.