Questions About The Course

I enjoyed working on the Self Portrait assignment (final project) the mostly because portraits are one of my favorite styles of art. Once it was assigned, I knew I had a chance to represent myself, and show my skill, even if I wasn't in an actual classroom. I thought the self portrait assignment was a great way for students to be more personal, and instead of reading the textbook, or answering questions, they/we could now show a bit about ourselves, exactly the way we wanted.
I really did not enjoy working on any of the power point assignments because they were extremely time consuming, and very blase. I felt like in the several power point assignments we had to do, it was mostly centered around "the elements and principles of design" and I got really tired of it. I think they are both important, but when they're are integrated in almost every single assignment or project, it gets annoyingly repetitive. Power points are one way of doing an assignment, but I'd prefer a more personal approach, like actual artwork!
I definitely enjoyed using ANGEL because I'd much rather take a course online, where it is centered around turning assignments in on time, rather than being in a classroom on time. ANGEL was a great way to learn how to me more computer savvy, which is just what I needed. It taught me to use resources such as a blog to connect with my classmates visually.
If I could change the course in any way I would take out some of the video assignments, and add in more artwork assignments. I think some of the material I learned in the videos was useless, and was kind of a waste of time, and if the point was to teach how to draw material from online sources, and write about it, I definitely am pretty good at that now. As I said earlier, I would remove some of the element and principle themes, because I don't think ever assignment should be surrounded by those principles, because they're not the most important parts of art. I would keep the textbook reading assignments, I think there was a great amount of extra credit opportunities, I liked the art gallery visits. I would also keep the art piece assignments like the self portrait, or the mask assignment, or the slideshow about elements and principles. Keep the blog! It was a great way to connect me with my peers.
I would recommend this course to other peers if they are searching for a class that really gets you involved with the internet, and many of it's pro's. I liked using a blog for this class, and I hated using it for other classes, I felt like I could be a lot more expressive in this class. I would recommend this class for someone who is striving to work with the computer more.
This was an interesting and fun class, and I hardly had any problems with it because it taught me to manage my time, and I learned what I needed to do in order to get assignments done, and have time to play. It was a little difficult at first, but it certainly got me organized.