Class 10 Reflection

Today we mainly worked on our webquest pages. It was nice to have time in class to work on them because there are so many other projects due in other classes! Thanks for moving the due date back a week–hopefully I won't need it, but next week is crazy!
I spent most of class creating a webquest on the Holocaust for high school seniors to use. Since I am going to be a media specialist and not a history teacher, it was difficult to think of a good project for students to do. I know how to find information, and that's what I like to do. Creating something with it is something else!
I realized again today why I don't like Netscape Composer. I have used it for a few classes before, and although I appreciate the fact that it's free, it is also quite frustrating! I downloaded the webquest template, but ultimately decided that I wanted to use my own format. I hope that's okay. I know how to create anchors and all that, so it will include the same information as the template.
Something I learned today is how to grab backgrounds off the Internet. I didn't know that you can just take backgrounds from other people's webpages. I thought the backgrounds were copyrighted. It's really neat that there are specific webpages with different backgrounds. There are so many options out there! It was fun to search for backgrounds for my webpage, but most of the time I don't like to use pictures or textures for a background. I find them to be distracting, to be honest. I stuck with a plain background for my webquest. I hope that's okay.
I stayed after class to finish my webquest, but ultimately I just got frustrated with Composer and had to leave! It's almost done, though, and each time I use Composer I learn something new. Eventually I'll figure this program out!