USING TECHNOLOGY TOOLS

Multitasking concept illustration from Freepik.

Among the list of technology tools that we will be using this semester, I have some experience with image editing, bookmarking and Padlet. Image editing is a basic tool that I use almost everyday to crop screenshots for example. When I was in secondary school I bookmarked useful websites in my careers class while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to study in college. I used Padlet in my secondary school art class as a way of creating boards about each topic we learned. It was also a useful tool for sharing research with my classmates.

This online environment is unlike my experience in other classes because it has a wider range of tools that we'll be using and trying out. I think this is beneficial to my learning because I'll be able to expand my knowledge and develop more skills in using a variety of technology tools.

I don't have any technical skills in mind that I would really like to work on during the semester but I want to learn how to use Unity3D since I already know the basics of a majority of the other tools we will be using. However, I'm willing to develop my technical skills wherever possible.

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