Week 11

The new program for this week is Publisher. Again, I've always used Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or a word processor for these kinds of projects. Using these programs include a lot of work, which usually I don't mind because I like being original, but Publisher is nice because it's meant to create projects like flyers and brochures and newsletters so the formats are already created for you and you just have to plug things in where you want them. The downside to Publisher that really was an inconvenience is that it's not accessible, like Picassa. When I bought my computer I wanted to make sure it had all the software I would need, but my Microsoft bundle didn't come with Publisher. I tried finding a trial version online, too, but couldn't find one. Hopefully it's a program that most school have available.

I was happy to be able to use Publisher for a project for another class this week, too! Yay! And it saved me like four hours!I love being able to still use a template that already been created and mix it up just a tad by changing colors, adding extra images, etc..., and making it very original. That's always nice.

Week 10

This week in class we learned about and played around with GoogleDocs, a program I've never used or even heard of. It's amazing! It was so fun to do our assignment all together just right there online, working together to discuss things and layout every one's ideas. It made it possible for everyone to contribute. I could see this working well with students possibly working on a group project so that they don't have to spend so much designated time outside of class to get the project done. They could just arrange a time to all be online and work on it from home. So nice!