A New Respect

I now have a new respect for the computer. I also found that the frustration is inevitable. I made it through, but once I looked at everyone elses I felt like I could have done more. I don't think I was creative enough. Some people had layers and layers of stuff. I had just 1 or 2 layers and that was it. I did think mine was pretty creative and I love pictures so I used a lot of pictures of my family. I tried to say away from too many pictures of my kids because I can overdue that. I was proud that I actually finished it because at one point I didn't think I was gonna make it.
When I sat down to work on it I was sucked in by an obsessive monster and tooned everything and everyone out, including the clock. I would be up until 1am and had to go to work in the morning. I would be exhausted at work and constantly thinking about what I can do to finish the project and it not look like a 5th grader did it.
I made it!!!!

My Quest for the Visual Essay

In my quest for the proper visual essay I am learning how computer illiterate I really am. I am used to just typing a paper and dabbling on the internet and that's it. This essay has definitely proved to be a challenge to me. I am getting there with it, but things are moving into places that I have no control over! I was thinking about my children and the changing times with their homework assignments. They won't have these problems because they are already being assigned homework on the computer in the 4th grade. It's amazing that they don't need my help to make a word search for their spelling words. It's blowing me away that by the time they are in the 6th or 7th grade they will be able to do powerpoint presentations and old as dirt and ready to toss my computer out of the window.
Well, I'm definitely learning something, but it's really hard.