E-Portfolio - Final Project

Here is the link to my final project. http://sites.google.com/site/sherrybatesportfolio/
I really enjoyed planning and producing my portfolio. I hope you all enjoy it.
I have really enjoyed working with all of you. You all have some great talent. I wish everyone luck in the future.

Thanks Alex for all your guidance for all the projects. I enjoyed your class.

Self Reflection on E-Portfolio

Sherry’s Self Reflection of my ePortfolio.

I had a lot of fun creating my ePortfolio. I found using Google sites to be really easy. I had no problem adding pages, editing html and designing it to the way I wanted it to look. I did change my logo and the coloring of the pages about three times until I was happy with the coloring. I wanted colors that wouldn’t be too feminine. I wanted to make it visual pleasing to both males and females. Therefore, I went with purple and grey. I designed a logo because I did not like how my heading appeared on the portfolio. I found the heading to be too small to make an impact.
I organized my portfolio like a resume. I started with the home page which welcomes people to my site. The next page is about me. This tells my goals and my experience. I followed this page with my career objectives, which allows future employers to view my intent. I also did a page for my education, my networks, and a contact me. The important page is my work examples, these is where I will showcase my designs and projects. A broke this page into several links. Each of my projects is linked to a separate page that will open the design. On the page that it is linked to, I told about the projects process by including my FATP and why I choose the theme I used.
Also under my designs I have additional projects that I have designed. I included a page for my graphic designs, photography, memory videos, and websites that I have designed. In addition to my projects, I also included a page that links to all the learning resources I used to become proficient in my skills. I will keep this page updated as I learn more skills in the future. Another important page is my skills and tools page. Here I linked the tools to the website of the software and to my blog so that the viewer can see my experience using the software for the first time.
I found that keeping up with the organization was the most important step in this process. I did this by updating my ePortfolio every time I finished a project. I created the page and linked it to the main page. This made the process a lot easier than waiting and designing each page at the end of the semester. I wish I had done this with the personal learning tools. I didn’t realize that this was going to be a page that we needed for my site. Therefore, I had to add each one separately. This was the most time consuming part of the whole design process. If I had to do my portfolio over again, I would add each of my learning networks every time I used one. This would make the process smooth and not as stressful at the end.
The most difficult challenge of my ePortfolio was figuring out the html. I did not see the small html button until midway through the process. Once I discovered it, I enjoyed adding my projects because I could manipulate the html. I like designing with html, I feel it gives you more freedom over your creation. Overall, I am very happy with how my ePortfolio and all my projects came out. I learned a lot about creating podcasts and animations in this class. I only wish I would have taken this class before I took all the advanced classes. It would have made that learning process a little easier.

Video Reflection

This project was very easy for me. I have been designing videos for the last 4 years.
However, this was the first time I used Windows Movie Maker. This software was very easy to
use. It was very easy to manipulate the timings and the voice over and to add text to your image. I feel it is very limiting on the transitions and effects. I like my movies to have lots
of transitions and different effects, like 2 pictures merging into one. Overall , I did enjoy working with this program but I will probably continue to use the more elaborate programs to do my videos.

I found producing a mindmap made it easier to place my photos where I wanted them to fall in the story. However, it didn't help with trying to get the photos in the right timing with the music. This always takes a lot of time to do the adjusting. I like my photos to fall where the music is talking about that image. I know after this course I will continue to use mindmapping. I find it very useful to organize you thoughts.

My most perplexing decision was to find what video to use in my movie. I decided on using my daughters cheer leading routine to show how girls fight for their teams. This is the only part of my movie that I am not 100 percent happy with. It came out alright but not it was not what I wanted it to be. I wanted to have girls doing Karate, but I was unable to make a class to do the video, so this substitute for it.

Overall, I like how my video came out. I enjoy making these kinds of videos. I hope to open my business making memory videos. I love placing photos to music and see the story come alive. Its makes a great keepsake and family treasure.

Video

This movie is about how women are fighting to achieve success and acceptance in the world.

It also is about struggling to survive when faced with a setback such as cancer.

Credits :

• Songs: Intro and Ending song piece is by http://www.soundjay.com/ - Heart of the Sea

Main song is by Bomshel called Fight like a girl.

• Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimberleyan....37030/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seth/244344740/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/4540997/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattcoatslo....81454/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/magannie/276639239/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen/879933/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74207111@N0....06952/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markybon/14794758/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgifullzum/....20007/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarah606/2396170395/

Additional photos by Sherry Bates Photography and clip art images.

F- Video

A- Classmates and Family and Friends

T- Fight Like A Girl

P - To educate that women need to fight for what they believe in and not back down

The first step in putting together this project was to design my mindmap. I had to decide on what songs I was going to use. Then I had to organize my photos and download ones off creative commons. Then the next step was putting it all together with the music, photos and transitions.

Another Animation

GoAnimate.com: All Work No Play by angels6889


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Animation

GoAnimate.com: I want to be beautiful by angels6889


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F- Animation
A- My classmates, family and friends
T-I want to be beautiful
P- To inform and educate women and children tat we don't have to be thin
to be loved.

I really enjoyed this assignment. It was a lot of fun to create an animation.
The program was realatively easy to use. It was easier after I watched some
of the start up videos of how to produce an animation. This made the set up easy.
The next thing was choosen my characters. There was so many to chose from.
Then I had to decide my setting. I decided to use a restaurant for my story.
Then I had to decide what actions my characters were going to do.

I really like how my story came out. This project was a lot of fun to do.
I really enjoyed doing this animation. It is very addicting. I plan on making more animations
in the near future.

Comic Stip

F - Comic Strip

A- My classmates, friends and women

T- I want to be THIN

P- To inform and educated women and children that they

don't have to be thin to be loved.

This assignment was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed making my own characters.

It helped with my stress from my other classes. It did take me alot of time to

plan my storyline. I chose the beach scene because that is where woman usually

feel the worst about their bodies. I hope to have women realize that not everyone

can be thin and we should enjoy the beach when we get a chance to go.