Personal Goals: Knowing, making, and playing
At the beginning of the semester I set the following 3 personal technology goals for myself.
1. Use my watch at least 5 times a week to monitor my workouts.
2. Learn and use Photoshop to edit an online photo album.
3. Create an online photo album.
How did I plan to achieve these goals?
First, I defined the goal and emailed it to the professor of the course. Then I thought about what specifically this would mean and how I would accomplish these goals. I chose the fitness tracker because I was in the habit of not wearing it while I worked out. I am pretty good about being consistent with my exercise, but less consistent with tracking my efforts. I decided to be more conscious of wearing my iwatch while I worked out. I captured a screenshot of my progress and then place them in a photo layout app on my phone that I sometimes like to use for photos.
Here is the progress for the first goal. I think I did pretty well. The colored circles indicate that I completed a workout on that particular day. From left to right and top to bottom, the following photo indicates progress for the months of August, September, October, and November. November was markedly improved over August. Yay!!
2nd Goal Edit in photoshop. Well, this was a little more complicated. The first photo is the one I edited and the second photo to the right is the original copy. I tried to crop, change to black and white, add text, and added a heart shape. The only thing that didn't work out so well was the heart shape.
3rd Goal - Create an online photobook for my son's first year. I created my photobook on shutterfly. Below is the link to the photobook.
https://link.shutterfly.com/e/m94TyoQN71
Below is the front page cover and the back page cover. It turned out to be 50 pages in length, so I only included the front and back page.
1. Use my watch at least 5 times a week to monitor my workouts.
2. Learn and use Photoshop to edit an online photo album.
3. Create an online photo album.
How did I plan to achieve these goals?
First, I defined the goal and emailed it to the professor of the course. Then I thought about what specifically this would mean and how I would accomplish these goals. I chose the fitness tracker because I was in the habit of not wearing it while I worked out. I am pretty good about being consistent with my exercise, but less consistent with tracking my efforts. I decided to be more conscious of wearing my iwatch while I worked out. I captured a screenshot of my progress and then place them in a photo layout app on my phone that I sometimes like to use for photos.
Here is the progress for the first goal. I think I did pretty well. The colored circles indicate that I completed a workout on that particular day. From left to right and top to bottom, the following photo indicates progress for the months of August, September, October, and November. November was markedly improved over August. Yay!!
2nd Goal Edit in photoshop. Well, this was a little more complicated. The first photo is the one I edited and the second photo to the right is the original copy. I tried to crop, change to black and white, add text, and added a heart shape. The only thing that didn't work out so well was the heart shape.
3rd Goal - Create an online photobook for my son's first year. I created my photobook on shutterfly. Below is the link to the photobook.
https://link.shutterfly.com/e/m94TyoQN71
Below is the front page cover and the back page cover. It turned out to be 50 pages in length, so I only included the front and back page.
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