My e-Communication Blog

 This year was my junior year in high school which means I have been in e-Communication for 3 years. For me, this year has been a very interesting year. In the e-Communication program we have 5 guarantees, Technology, Collaboration, Communication, Project Management, and Leadership. All 5 guarantees are supposed to help you be a better student here in the e-Communications program.  Technology     Technology is the first guarantee that was taught in the e-Comm program. To me technology would be referring to the computers and how to use the software on them. One valuable information that I have gotten from this guarantee is learning new software might be difficult at first but once you continue to work on that software, then it starts to get easier. I feel that this valuable information is important because when we were learning how to do animations in Adobe Flash it was difficult at first. Along the way when we were learning how Adobe Flash works we had to crea...

What's the Project? In web design we had to find a high school website that was bland and we were gonna redesign the homepage. The high school that I chose was Yates Center high School in Yates Center, Ks. After finding the high school we had to find a known company. After we found the company we had to make the high school logo look like the company logo and we also had to have the high school home page look like the company's website. My company that I chose was Taco Bell. My Experiences Making the high school's home page look like Taco Bell's website was a little challenging. Before I could start designing the website I had to look at Taco Bell's website and analyze the CSS that they use on their website. Next, I had to find the right transition to use so that when you hover over the pictures of the people their names show up. After I got the right transition, I started to create the home page. Before I actually got to create my homepage I had to remake th...

What is it? The extension that I'm gonna be talking about is most helpful for anyone who likes to draw, need to take a break from doing work, and anyone who is making sketches. The extension is called Sketchpad. What it does it lets you sketch anything you want on your computer. The purpose of this extension is to help get ideas out of your head when you need to draw something down really quick but don't have any paper near you. How does it work? First go to the Chrome Web Store and then click on the extension filter, so only the extensions pop up. Next, scroll down until you see the Arts & Creativity Extensions. Hit the view all button so you can see more extensions. Click on the Sketchpad app. Click on the add to Chrome button in the top right hand corner. It will ask you if you want to add it Chrome. Hit the add extension button You will be able to find the extension in the top right hand corner of the browser th...

What is it? Have you ever wanted to make a flyer, tickets, or even a thank you card, but you're just not good at designing or you don't have the software? Well with this Google Chrome extension you can! The Easy Design Suite is an extension on Chrome that can help you build great graphics without using Photoshop. This extension is great for people who like to design anything but they don't have the right software to make it look professional. Anyone can use this extension. No designing back ground is required. All you need is Google Chrome and a Desktop computer. How does it work? First go to the Chrome Web Store and go to the extension category. Next, in the search extension box, search the word graphic design and then hit enter. After that you will end up on all the graphic design things like extensions, themes, games, and apps. Filter the results to only extensions by clicking on the extension button. By doing that it should fil...

The high school that I'm redesigning is Yates Center High School and the company that I'm  using is Taco Bell. http://www.usd366.net/yates-center-high-school https://www.tacobell.com/