Technology Update

After class one day last week a small discussion occurred talking about the technologies we are using in this class. Many students were saying how they didn't sign up for a technology-heavy class, and they thought that the portfolios were just going to be something on the side, and not the main focus of the course. They said " I would have signed up for a web design class if I had wanted to do this much technological work". I do agree that it has been more tech-savvy than I am used to, but unlike some of my peers, I have definitely gotten a lot out of having to make a website. Even though it was tough navigating my way around Wordpress, I feel like I now have a grip on how the site is run, and I can easily make more websites like it in my future. This skill is something that a course taught purely for the purpose of web-design may not have given me, so I am grateful. However, I think that many of us are feeling lost in what Dr. Case would like on our websites, and we feel terrible with how busy she is, but we would like some more direction on how we are being graded and what we should prioritize in terms of references vs. web design vs. content vs. citations vs. class discussion research vs. blogging etc. In the end, I am trusting that Dr. Case will see the effort and grade accordingly, but I think that the layout of the grading should be defined more so that we can figure out how to allocate our time.