Thursday, September 30, 2010
Day 6 of working in Pages
Today I remade everything I lost from the operating system wipeout. It's very similar to what I posted earlier, in the PDF file, except with some grammar editing and a new title. Then, I started working on my brochure. It's going along pretty well, even though citing everything is fairly time consuming. I hope to finish the brochure by next class, though that's probably unlikely.
Brochures
Today, our teacher showed us some examples of brochures and told us to comment on which brochures caught our eyes the most. These two really got my attention:
http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/223799_OMVOPMejI077Cg6i2U21yLiUA.jpg
And
http://gotwood.bfrancesi.com/images/portfolio/australia.jpg
http://s3images.coroflot.com/user_files/individual_files/223799_OMVOPMejI077Cg6i2U21yLiUA.jpgAnd
http://gotwood.bfrancesi.com/images/portfolio/australia.jpg
These two really caught my eye as soon as I looked at the list. The "Gateway to China's Future" brochure has a great design on the front and makes you just want to look into it more, and the color scheme makes it all the more interesting. The Australia brochure has a very nice background and seems to balance out the amount of text and pictures very well. My brochure will probably be more like the Australia brochure, but the Gateway brochure was certainly a good example of what a good color scheme can do.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Today's Work (Day 5)
Well, besides posting that rant/overview of the six weeks, I did pretty much nothing today. Sorry, folks! Next class, though, I'll focus on remaking my Pages project. I still can't believe it was all wiped out...anyway, I'll definitely work harder next class. Today, I pretty much relaxed a day and played games.
Rant & The Latest 6 Weeks
Well, our first six weeks of working in this class are over. :(
I've really enjoyed this class so far, all difficulties and grievances aside. It's been easy at times and hard at times, but I think I've done well. I've learned a lot of things about making a blog and keeping it up, about how my Mac works, netiquette, and about working in Pages. Making a blog was, in my opinion, the more fun thing to do since we could be as creative as we wanted to and had a lot of themes to think about. But, maybe I'm just saying that because our school installed new operating systems onto these Macs, which effectively destroyed our Pages projects. Yes, that happened. *Sigh*. One more reason for me to hate, right? Couldn't they have at least, like, backed it up, or something? I don't know.
Anyway, the skills I've learned could really help my future. The blog seems like a great and organized way to keep track of everything you need to do, and keeping in touch with people you know. It could be a great center for everything in college or late high school for homework and other kinds of things as well. Netiquette will certainly help me later on, even though it was implanted in my head at a very early age. (My teacher in elementary school for technology was very strict on netiquette.) After all, saying the wrong thing could get me in big trouble. As for Pages, well, if I have to ever use a Mac I suppose it would be useful to know how to make documents in it. I still definitely prefer PCs to Macs.
I've really enjoyed this class so far, all difficulties and grievances aside. It's been easy at times and hard at times, but I think I've done well. I've learned a lot of things about making a blog and keeping it up, about how my Mac works, netiquette, and about working in Pages. Making a blog was, in my opinion, the more fun thing to do since we could be as creative as we wanted to and had a lot of themes to think about. But, maybe I'm just saying that because our school installed new operating systems onto these Macs, which effectively destroyed our Pages projects. Yes, that happened. *Sigh*. One more reason for me to hate, right? Couldn't they have at least, like, backed it up, or something? I don't know.
Anyway, the skills I've learned could really help my future. The blog seems like a great and organized way to keep track of everything you need to do, and keeping in touch with people you know. It could be a great center for everything in college or late high school for homework and other kinds of things as well. Netiquette will certainly help me later on, even though it was implanted in my head at a very early age. (My teacher in elementary school for technology was very strict on netiquette.) After all, saying the wrong thing could get me in big trouble. As for Pages, well, if I have to ever use a Mac I suppose it would be useful to know how to make documents in it. I still definitely prefer PCs to Macs.
Friday, September 24, 2010
My Favorite Projects
This morning, I looked at some of my friends' projects in Pages, like my Italy one. My top three were:
Kel :] -It was one of the best I'd seen- great cover, great designs, a consistent font that added to the mood of the project and looked really great in contrast, and everything that needed to be done. ;
TheAsianLeprechaun-At first, I was laughing at the name of the country, but then I kept looking and it was a wonderful overall project. The cover was beautiful and instantly captured my attention, and the rest of the project was great as well. The brochure especially was really good. ; https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-yY_l0l8tS2NGNjOGY1OGItNWZkYy00YWM2LWE2MTAtYWVhOTI1MDIxMjJi&hl=en&authkey=CK6U9osO
Big Taco- His was the best example that a great color scheme can grab your attention and make the project look a lot better. I'm going to go fix mine before self-grading myself, actually. ; https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0ByuByHN_AFlUMjQyZTE1NDQtMzc1Ni00MjJjLWJjNzQtYTM1NmE4ODhmOWQ0&hl=en&authkey=CLOFm10
Right, time for the self-assessment.
General- 3 1/2?, I actually just added the headers and footers myself. The page numbers were there already. However the design style is still a bit off.
Cover- 4, It has a lot of images related to Italy, a title and has a good design style.
Table of Contents- 4, Neatly labeled with all color schemes in order.
Work Log; Initial Design- 4, I have everything listed with explanations for everything.
Bibliography and Bibliography Citations- 4 each, I have well over 12 citations and everything is neatly colored.
Professionalism- 4, I have no typos or grammar mistakes of any kind.
Cheers! This is pretty much all I did today, but I also started on my brochure. My mouse's scroll button is a bit broken, so it's a bit annoying, but it's okay.
Kel :] -It was one of the best I'd seen- great cover, great designs, a consistent font that added to the mood of the project and looked really great in contrast, and everything that needed to be done. ;
TheAsianLeprechaun-At first, I was laughing at the name of the country, but then I kept looking and it was a wonderful overall project. The cover was beautiful and instantly captured my attention, and the rest of the project was great as well. The brochure especially was really good. ; https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-yY_l0l8tS2NGNjOGY1OGItNWZkYy00YWM2LWE2MTAtYWVhOTI1MDIxMjJi&hl=en&authkey=CK6U9osO
Big Taco- His was the best example that a great color scheme can grab your attention and make the project look a lot better. I'm going to go fix mine before self-grading myself, actually. ; https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0ByuByHN_AFlUMjQyZTE1NDQtMzc1Ni00MjJjLWJjNzQtYTM1NmE4ODhmOWQ0&hl=en&authkey=CLOFm10
Right, time for the self-assessment.
General- 3 1/2?, I actually just added the headers and footers myself. The page numbers were there already. However the design style is still a bit off.
Cover- 4, It has a lot of images related to Italy, a title and has a good design style.
Table of Contents- 4, Neatly labeled with all color schemes in order.
Work Log; Initial Design- 4, I have everything listed with explanations for everything.
Bibliography and Bibliography Citations- 4 each, I have well over 12 citations and everything is neatly colored.
Professionalism- 4, I have no typos or grammar mistakes of any kind.
Cheers! This is pretty much all I did today, but I also started on my brochure. My mouse's scroll button is a bit broken, so it's a bit annoying, but it's okay.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
The fourth day of working in Pages & My PDF File
Hello again, everyone. It's my fourth day of working in this program...I can't wait for it to be over. Anyway, today, I finished up my cover page, table of contents, a whole page of bibliographies, and my work-log, which is basically what I posted on this blog for the first three days. Anyway, here's the link in a PDF File https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B9aIgWEtuCXgZTRmNGZiODQtZGJiNi00NDhjLTgyM2UtOWJhNTRlMDJkOWVh&hl=en&authkey=COT6rKoL.
Yes, it's in Google Docs. The process was surprisingly easy to do- I just had to reduce the Pages document, save it as a PDF, upload it onto Google Docs and make it so anyone could see it. It was really easy and only took me 5-6 minutes to do. However, Google Docs hates on backgrounds- The cover page has a background on the bottom half and the Table of Contents also has a background, but Google Docs decided not to show them. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I hope you like it!
Yes, it's in Google Docs. The process was surprisingly easy to do- I just had to reduce the Pages document, save it as a PDF, upload it onto Google Docs and make it so anyone could see it. It was really easy and only took me 5-6 minutes to do. However, Google Docs hates on backgrounds- The cover page has a background on the bottom half and the Table of Contents also has a background, but Google Docs decided not to show them. I'm not entirely sure what happened, but I hope you like it!
Monday, September 20, 2010
Day Three of Working in Pages
So today I came into class happy and cheerful. By the middle of class, I was decidedly less cheerful. Pages is once again thwarting all of my attempts to be happy and cheerful with it.
My first obstacle today was the lack of an "insert" key on Mac keyboards, which on PCs lets you replace current text with new text as you type. Most people say this is a great annoyance to them, but if you had a perfect setup on your work and just needed to add things to the first page without affecting the other ones, you might want an insert key. Too bad there wasn't one.
So, instead of making my cover on the Pages document with my itinerary, I decided to open up a new template and use that instead. I used the "Garden Project Poster Large" format and replaced all the images with stock photos and replaced the text with my own cover wording. Then, I had to go back to my bibliography program and cite every last image that I used, which took about twenty minutes with all 7 photos and the websites and databases. After that, I emailed the bibliography to myself and copy and pasted it into Pages, where it came up as a small text box. After resizing the box, the bibliography took up pretty much all of one page.
So, to sum it up- Today I finished most of my cover and bibliography as well as changing my table of contents a little. I guess I'm learning more about what a Mac can and cannot do, as well.
My first obstacle today was the lack of an "insert" key on Mac keyboards, which on PCs lets you replace current text with new text as you type. Most people say this is a great annoyance to them, but if you had a perfect setup on your work and just needed to add things to the first page without affecting the other ones, you might want an insert key. Too bad there wasn't one.
So, instead of making my cover on the Pages document with my itinerary, I decided to open up a new template and use that instead. I used the "Garden Project Poster Large" format and replaced all the images with stock photos and replaced the text with my own cover wording. Then, I had to go back to my bibliography program and cite every last image that I used, which took about twenty minutes with all 7 photos and the websites and databases. After that, I emailed the bibliography to myself and copy and pasted it into Pages, where it came up as a small text box. After resizing the box, the bibliography took up pretty much all of one page.
So, to sum it up- Today I finished most of my cover and bibliography as well as changing my table of contents a little. I guess I'm learning more about what a Mac can and cannot do, as well.
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