MA 00 – Summery and Knowledge gained during first week of Graphic Design 1

First week’s Learning Activities

• Making a blog – very straight forward with wordpress that guides you through it. I learned how to navigate my blog, to customize it, and to make it my own. Also it helped me get into the habit of posting my processes and activities.
• Introductions on blog, forum and Moodle profile – a good way to break the ice and get to know fellow students.
• Self-portrait (not a photograph) – my first instinct was to draw my face, but as the other learning activity asked for a drawing I wanted to do something else with this. A lovely sunny day inspired me to go to the beach and make a portrait in the sand. To create contrast I added a piece of paper underneath the sand so the lines would be more visual as white vs sand. Plenty of material to use for my face like rocks and seaweed.

First week’s Mandatory Assignment

• The Moodle Map – helped me familiarize myself with Moodle and where all the resources are. It was a jump start into starting to create and get inspired. As this is also the Mandatory Assignment for this week it gives the chance to get to know the systems around making rapports and delivering assignments. I know now where to go if I need anything.
• List of Work Schedule – the study plan was easy enough to understand but making a list of handouts and deadlines made me have to take a closer look and gave me ideas on how to structure and plan my study work.