Reflections of another…

The objectives for my course are as follows:

This class will provide a general overview of scrapbooking’s growing popularity around the world as well as how to scrapbook! You’ll build your scrapbook vocabulary as well as your layout and design skills. Learn how to journal and add embellishments to your page. With these newly learned ideas and techniques, you’ll become a confident scrapbooker — ready to shop at an independent scrapbook retailer, a large craft chain, online store, or even a national home shopping network. Then, with these products and your digital photos, you’ll be able to create beautiful memory books for yourself and future generations.

By the end of the course i hope to have a completed scrapbook that is a collection of memorabilia and keepsakes that provokes memories and inspires dreams. i expect the learning experience to be quite structured as there will be quizzes and tasks to complete but also very interactive and loads of fun. there are discussion forums for other learners to participate in and also an assigned instructor who will guide the learning process which will hopefully be supportive throughout my learning.

Ive chosen to complete an online course in the art of scrapbooking?!

I was originally looking for a course on digital photography but after searching through the online courses on the HP website I noticed the scrapbook class would be so much more fun

click here to take a look!

I was surprised at how hard it actually is to find an online course of decent quality that is free. Everyone I found you had to pay for or was just a slab of text on a screen that you could read and say you’ve done a course. I was also considering this AGFA digital photography course but it doesnt look half as interesting.

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On the abc’s Mediawatch program aired tonight there was a follow up story on the credibility of one of The Australian’s news stories sourced from an online blog opinionjournal.com rather than its more credible sister site The Wall St Journal. MediaWatch’s main critisism of the news story was it gave a blogger the credibility of a journalist. In reply to this Rupert Murdoch gave the below statement in defence of The Australian:

“We may want to experiment with the concept of using bloggers to supplement our daily coverage of news on the net. There are of course inherent risks in this strategy —— chief among them maintaining our standards for accuracy and reliability … But they may still serve a valuable purpose; broadening our coverage of the news; giving us new and fresh perspectives to issues; deepening our relationship to the communities we serve, so long as our readers understand the clear distinction between bloggers and our journalists.”

Isnt it interesting how much interest the media is placing on the credibility of bloggers, i guess this is in why ethical standards have been promoted by serious bloggers, to enhance their credibility in the eye of the reader.

Read more about this Mediawatch segment here!