DUE Sunday, May 06 – 6 points
(Monday NOON deadline)

• Gradebook Declaration: I have published a blog post on my course blog that is between 300 and 1000 words long talking about the course. I have spellchecked and proofread the post. I have made a conscious effort to employ the techniques we discussed for writing better content for the web.

This semester, we have covered a wide variety of material. We began with personal branding and planning out your web site; we explored image formats and content management systems and plenty of other technobabble; we wrote HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript; we worked with WordPress quite a bit; and we discussed how to promote your site with broadcast tools and feedback tools and community tools. With all of that behind us, I thought it would be worthwhile before it is over to have you reflect on the course. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• What topics most interested in you? What topics least interested you? Considering this was called “Internet Studio” what topics were you surprised to find covered? What topic were you surprised to see left out? What did you think of the textbook? Was it too meaty, too shallow, or just right? Did you find the errors (typographical or otherwise) too distracting? Would a different kind of textbook been more appropriate for a class like this?
• How has the material covered in this course changed the way you think about the internet? How much or how little of the material do you hope to incorporate into your life outside of class? Do you want to become a web developer now? Do you want to work with a marketing agency building web sites for customers? Do you want to add features or clean up content on your existing company web site? Are you ready to build another web site soon?
• What web sites or books or other resources did you learn about during the course that you plan to keep following? What interests you about them? How will they help you in your education, your career, or your life? Are there any community groups you plan to participate in or events you plan to attend because you learned about them in this course?
• Were you happy with how your final project turned out? What did you like about it and what worked? What did you not like about it and what did not work? Do you have any plans to keep it running or improve it or invest any time in it?
• What did you think of WordPress? Did it make building web sites easy for you since it came with good themes and didn’t require you to write that much HTML and PHP? Or was it the bane of your existence for the last two months? For the next web site you build, do you plan to use WordPress or do you plan to explore other content management systems first? Or do you plan to hand-code HTML and PHP files?
• What did you think about the class format? Was it a delight to know what was expected of you on a daily basis? Or was it an endless hamster-wheel that threatened to consume you at every turn? Was the workload too little, just right, or too much?
• What could you have done to get more out of the course? What could I have done to help you get more out of the course? What could I do differently the next time I teach the course? What advice would you give to fellow students thinking about taking this course?

(Please note that the gradebook declaration does not have “I was not rude” appended to the end of it. You may bash me and the course if you want to. That probably makes more sense to do in the private course evaluations than in this public assignment, but it will not affect your grade for this assignment.)

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Once you have completed this assignment, make your gradebook declaration.

DUE Sunday, May 06 – 6 points
(Monday NOON deadline)