I put off doing the newsletter assignment until the day before because I thought it would be easy create one. However, as I started creating one from scratch and incorporating the design elements into it, it wasn’t as easy as I thought. I struggled with using the software and did not quite get the desired results immediately. I realized how much effort and patience is required to be able to publish a well designed and interesting newsletter. Despite the struggle, I really enjoyed the experience and would love to continue publishing a quarterly family newsletter. This way, I could continue to design and write with more confidence and ease as I have more experience. Most of all, I learned that I needed to start on a project right away instead of assuming that it would be easy. It would have also given me time to fully learn how to use the software to get my desired design and effects.
The first thing I did was to search on the internet for examples of different kinds of newsletters. When I decided that I wanted to do a family newsletter, I just focused my search on that subject and how I could design and publish one. I used Microsoft Publisher as the software to use to the project because it was the one that was easily available. I did not interact much with colleagues because I did not have time to participate in group activities due to my work and my responsibilities as a wife, mother of 4 children, and homemaker. I believe that even if I had interacted I would basically make my own decisions from my own research and study. That is just how I work.
