It's official: I'm graduating from Kent State with an MA!

Entrance to the Kent State School of Journalism.

   It's official. My Master's Project has been approved. I posted the final paper and the course syllabus in separate pages on the top of this blog.
   I will discuss in more detail about the approval process soon.
   I am Kent State.

Website designed by...me

I know, I know. My last post is getting old. It’s been a month since I last posted; so let me show you one of my class projects that’s been taking up nearly every spare moment I have…

I built a 5-page website from scratch!

That’s right. I started with a blank Dreamweaver page and built it one code at a time. Dreamweaver is a website design software, and I have to admit - the learning curve is very steep. But I have a great online instructor, so the guidance is thorough and necessary.

As most of you know, I’m a grad student at Kent State. I’m learning how to teach journalism students the trade. My classes include journalism ethics and law; how to teach Dreamweaver and Photoshop; and how to teach newspaper design using InDesign.

The accredited Journalism Educator program is taught completely online by instructors who not only teach us the stuff, but how to teach others the stuff. You come out of the Masters of Arts program being a well-rounded journalism instructor with a working knowledge of all of the current Adobe software that’s standard in the industry.

So, here’s my website that I designed in just 4 weeks: www.folioweb.org/kingl/index.html. 
(One word of warning: the website works best when using the Firefox browser. For some reason, the education page with the flash video won't work at all using the Internet Explorer or Safari...)

Be kind. It’s meant to show growing skills, so the content isn’t as important as the working parts - like the nav bar, the photo gallery and the flash video.

Stay tuned for more examples of homework and other thoughts from my tired brain.