Web Page Module Reflections

My work on the nterdisciplinary community project, for the Florida Aquarium was used for this module. This was a great learning experience for me. It forced me out of my comfort zone of library specific projects and think through rearranging the individual components of a website from scratch. In the next few days, I will actually start a similar project at work with the Tampa-Hillsborough County library website. The concepts I learned in this project will help me immensely on our future website.

This project also gave me an opportunity to team up with students from different disciplines in the university. Each discipline brought something to the table and it was a very unique experience. I believe it was a great team building challenge on dealing with different types of students (undergraduate / graduate) and different disciplines.

The areas I would change were related to the changes in the project. We gave two progress reports on Friday afternoons that were not planned from the beginning. In the future, these dates should be given to the students at the start of the project. Also, the specifications changed from the beginning. Students didn't know exactly what the expectation were for the project. I did get into the project late, which might have slowed me down in relation to learning the specifications for the project or understand everything necessary for the project.

My thanks to Diane Austin for giving me this opportunity.

Publication Module Reflections

I decide to take some risks and new challenges while working on this module. The publications made in this module were used in my poster session during FLA 2010. I used Power Point for the poster. In my Basic Info class, we created a poster for the class. I used the same template, modified it, and used it for my poster this year. The major issues were just finding the correct photos for the correct portions of the template. Some of the images were found in Microsoft clip art. The other images were edited using Adobe Photoshop.

For my handouts, I used Adobe InDesign. This was the first time using this program. At work, I use a similar program called Microsoft Publisher. I found a template for creating the handouts and modified it. Inserting images was a challenge for me in this program. I never could get it to resize correctly by just clicking on the corners. I ended up resizing it in photoshop and then inserting the image. Other than that particular issue, I was able to figure out enough to finish the document.

In the future, I plan on taking a course just on inDesign.