MY Work On MYP Computer Technology;Grade 8This semester we did a lot of work in computer technology for our main goal which was to create a digital portfolio. My strengths throughout this project I think has been my creativity and design. I really liked my backgrounds and the structure of most of my pages. Some of my weaknesses were things like time management. Most of the things I had originally planned to do in my time line I didn't complete because of the amount of time I had, and also I didn't collect my information before hand, and instead did everything in class(collecting Information and editing),which really caused me to waste a lot of time.
I created my digital portfolio because Mrs.Mora had told us that we were going to make them and that some of the important aspects of having this portfolio would help us with applications to college's and jobs. I do Intend to continue using my portfolio, and adding more information and hopefully when I get to that stage of going to university I can use it.
I think My mom, will be very happy with my portfolio and all my work. She will probably like me also find it very useful and important to my steps to success later on. I think learning about HTML beforehand helped me a lot on my portfolio, because there were a couple of things that were not working to well. The photoshop skills we learnt didn't necessarily help me with my portfolio, but were very useful and helpful to me, and am really glad we did it because now I know a lot more on what I can do with editing pictures than I did before. Before I only knew how to change colors, brightness and contrast and now I can add different features to my pictures and etc. I also think the blogging is very important because now with the internet and other technology, we are able to easily share our views in one place where everyone can access. I also liked learning about HTML, at first I thought it was going to be a bit of a challenge because whenever I usually see those codes, I have always thought it was very hard to build a website, but with HTML codes it is very simple and easy.
I was really proud of and I think I did well with my uganda website, my website and my collage. I struggled a bit with the workshops in photoshop especially with the lady and the boat. Otherwise I think I did preety well, another thing I struggled with was time especially with my digital portfolio, I wasnt able to finish my collage reflection because of my portfolio. I think next time, try harder to work with those time restrictions.
In terms of the MYP design cycle, I think after I realised that following those steps and guidlines and really understanding them does help you improve and complete your work successfully, because before this I didn't really find the design cycle any useful and I was doing my work the way I saw fit, which was not allowing me to take my work to the next step, thats why rubrics and instruction criteria sheets are given to you in the first place.
I am glad to have completed and learnt all those things in the course. I am really proud and happy with most of my end results, but also sad to finish the computer technology course because I really love working with all the computer software and etc, and am also not too good with manual things in design technology. If i had to improve anything, I think giving us a bit more time on our portfolio's would be quite useful, but overall I loved it and am going to miss Mrs.Mora and all the different things we learnt and she taught us. I will also definately continue using my blog, for my other projects and maybe improve or add information along the way to my digital portfolio for later use like in university and etc.
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Charlene Owidh
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