Final Touches

I'm just about all finished with Task 1 for Living and Learning with Technology at long last and yet I'm stuck with the feeling that I've forgotten something. It was a huge process of trial and error, lots of changing everything and then getting frustrated and changing it all back again, but I'm pretty happy with my final website and poster. Still can't get rid of that feeling though! Like I'm going to submit it all at 9am tomorrow morning and then kick myself at 9:30 when it's too late to change anything, realising I accidentally uploaded embarrassing selfies to my website instead of the useful information I intended to put there...

Despite my somewhat ridiculous worries I do feel more confident using the online tools I used to make my website and poster and I feel that I would be able to help someone else use them too. They really are as simple as they say and as far as assignments go, this one was pretty fun and had a lot of flexibility for us to be creative with - it's been really interesting looking at the different paths other students have taken with the same assignment and seeing everyone's different styles. Some of the posters were so good they even tempted me to scrap my work and use a whole different site to make a new poster. I found posters made with easel.ly to be particularly artsy and effective.

As with the 6th step of Authentic Learning - Articulation, I think the making of my poster and website did make me research the topic more thoroughly as everything is going online where anyone with an interest can just search it up and read it all. Considering I post to things like Facebook and Snapchat all the time, I've never really thought of anything I write as "public" but of course it is and researching things like cyber bullying and cyberstalking put some of that into perspective.