Well-well-well, in writing this final blog post, I find myself nearing the end of my very first session at CSU. I’d like to report back in coming through this experience that a lot has changed – frankly not much has – and that I am a better, more intelligent person – that has changed, but more on that later.
I do remember making mention in one of my prior blogs that it is an amazingly open platform to have ideas in. Infact, there be no perceivable limitation as to what you can put here – with the Internet being the way that it is these days, there really is no limitation – but I find it ironic that my blog even after multiple jabs in the arm, I could not find within me the thread to continue writing.
Oh, wait, this was supposed to be about my experience in MPI104, and not me in general. Oops. Okay, let’s start:
Blogger
My blogger page consists of a semi-transparent grey fill, with cyan and orange highlights, set in a classic three-pane design, with content running down the middle and two other sides to the left and right of the content for additional information/links.
Flickr
My Flickr contains a wide variety of imagery from 2005 and 2006 to the present day, with a large majority of those images coming from this year. The photography was that good that I even have my good friend Willis stealing some of my images for his P3 website. (Fully credited, of course.)
Delicious
I do kinda wish I had of used Delicious more, but when you’re a monotonous uni student studying monotonous (for the most part, except come assessment time) subjects, you don’t really encounter anything on the web that’s worth sharing. That’s probably why I only have 18 favourites. I really don’t view that much exciting nothingness-ness on teh Interwebz.
HTML
Did we really do that with hand-coding HTML in class? Except for a few examples, there’s nothing really to show here (that I’ve coded personally) ‘sides from a few counters and whatnot.
CSS
I haven’t experimented with CSS on my blog, but do know how to pull some tricks with it. Like Z-depth for instance. Look it up, children.
iWeb
Have looked, never really experimented with iWeb prior to this course. What can I say? It works well for what it needs to do, and if I weren’t such a code monkey in other means, I’d probably be using it more. But I am, so ner.
FTP
Taking said sugary-goodness from iWeb, I’ve used FTP to upload to our own webspaces on CSUAP.
RSS
I do actually have an extensive set of feeds that I read on a fairly regular basis on my own (read: non-MPI104) Google account. No surprises here.
What have I Learnt?
In retrospect, nothing covered in these workshops was particularly new to me. Not that this should be considered offensive to our lecturer Matt – experience does things to you that attending classes generally can’t replace. I was expecting more of a focus on applications used to create content for the web, and not the delivery of the subject being focused entirely on the web – something that I will be making note of in the subject evaluation – but again, this isn’t Matt’s fault. He delivers and teaches the syllabus as defined by higher powers that be, and at the end of the day there is very little he can do about changing that.
