“You don’t learn from experience, you learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey

You learn a lot throughout school, and that will be the purpose of this blog post. 

This is for my mid year presentation of learning, so I’m writing about stuff that I improved on throughout the first semester. For my post I’m choosing to show what I have learned from the medium is the message.

Logo from the company we made an ad for. Sweet as Treats in Deep Cove, Vancouver.

Medium is the message helped me improve three core things. How to communicate professionally, how to collaborate to design and later on in the project how to create amazing blog posts.

#1 How to communicate professionally

In Medium is the message we had to talk to our companies, and you can’t really talk to a company the same way you talk to your friends. You got to talk formally. I’m not that great at it, and when my group and I were sending e-mails we always had to check by the teachers, and get lectured on how we did everything wrong. But as they say, practice makes perfect and as we went through the project, we learned the dos and don’ts.

Do say hello and your name.

Don’t start babbling without a subject.

Do say regards at the end and then your name.

Don’t just say bye at the end of an E-Mail

 

#2 how to collaborate and design an ad/any other design

I suck at understanding abstract or broad criteria, so when I heard design an ad I thought I would be in trouble. Lucky for me, it was a group project. Most of my group was really good at understanding these sorts of things, so they helped me learn how to break it down and understand. This is the collaborating bit.

I improved my designing skills by learning the develop and critique process. I have learned how to improve work by sitting back and looking over / reflecting on what I’ve done so far, and what is still lacking. In the medium is the message project I did that in my ad drafts very much.

#3 How write a blog post

This one isn’t specific to this project, and I’ve been learning how to write blog posts in every single other project, but for those projects I knew how to write a blog post. In medium is the message, it was my first time. So naturally I had to learn about blog posts; how to write one, what to make sure I include, and how to make interesting and compelling writing.

I did learn a lot more about how to make blog posts in the geek out classes, and learned some very important lessons about copyrights.

 

Room for improvement

Time management, and staying focused 

I am absolute dog diggity doo at staying focused, and am even worse at managing my time. 

I’ve been working on them both, and I don’t los focus that often anymore, but my time management is still horrible. The thing that’s been working the best to help my time management is writing a to do list. I write everything that’s due soon, and then have arrows showing each step to it. This way I can break down each project to smaller, more bite sized pieces. 

I hope I can learn as many new skills in the next semester as I did in this one. Thanks for reading.