Eden's EME2040 Spring 25 Blog

I was in 8th grade when Covid hit, so I spent the rest of the year online like everyone else. I had to use Zoom and Canvas to attend class and get work done. I think Zoom is effective because it allows the speaker to screenshare and teach in a kind of face-to-face manner. However, it is very easy for students to get distracted or not pay attention to the speaker because they can turn off their camera and do what they want. Canvas is also a great way to assign work and keep track of grades but it was very challenging for me to learn strictly through instructions on Canvas because sometimes they are unclear or not very detailed.  An open educational resource is one that anyone can use and typically can be shared or edited. I found an article on OER on the  FSU Libraries  website. It explains that there are "5 R" permissions associated with OER: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. The website says that OER are extremely helpful to college students because it can ...

For my website design, I did my best to utilize all of the design principles. For example, I made sure to use contrasting colors on all of my backgrounds and text so that it was easy to read. One of my pages had a beige background, so the text I put on it was dark grey. Also, to utilize repetition, I kept the font the same for all headers/paragraphs and the same color text as well. I found aligning my designs to be difficult sometimes because of the way the website has you put certain things in certain areas and it was frustrating at the beginning, but once I got the hang of it I was able to utilize the alignment principle well. Overall, I liked this assignment because it allowed me to act as if I was a teacher and I think it will prepare me for the future. One thing that I disliked however is that Weebly does not have an undo button, so if you delete something there is no way of recovering it. This made me nervous while I was designing my website because I did not want to accidentally...