I liked that this assignment was a change of pace from reading and critiquing. I enjoy trying to puzzle things out even when I’m a bit scared that I’ll just blow up my whole wordpress site. The plugins and widgets were and still are the most challenging part for me. It is always something I can come back to play with more when I want a break from deep thinking on my other assignments.
I am liking wordpress and am thinking ahead of how to either merge previous work into this site or to use it for launching future explorations.
I think Chris assigned it for various reasons: to give us a variety of assignment types, to widen our skills, to challenge us to be brave, and to experience what we may ask of our own students.
My only advice to a future student is to have fun with it and don’t be shy about asking others what they used to cause specific bling in their blogs.
