Final Thoughts

The assignment that has been the most beneficial for me during this course is probably the final project. There are so many different elements that go in to creating an online portfolio for myself and so many ways that I can mess up, that I have already learned a lot even without having completely finished the final project. For instance, yesterday night when I was uploading copies of my published articles to the website: I ran into some trouble getting the copies to upload properly, and I still acually have two that don't work, but I worked through the issue (on my own, at that! :D) and I was able to get most of them to work. A semester ago I never would have been able to do somthing like this, let alone on my own. I have learned a lot this semester, many valuable skills. I hope that I can go on to take more advanced web authoring classes, because its really fulfilling being able to show someone my website and say "I built that." It's not a skill that everyone posesses. Hopefully the skills that I am taking from this class will be valuable for my future, especially considering the fact that the internet is always growing, and so many aspects of journalism are beginning to function in an online format. Paper is becoming obsolete, so it is my hope that this class will help me to better function in an ever changing online world.