I love the holidays

It really is a great time of the year. Here's hoping for a white Christmas. Everyone have a great break, stay safe, and hold your loved ones close.

Reviews of websites

It's always fun to see what other people in the class have been up to on their websites. I love the background Ying has on her homepage, bio, and resources pages. I feel like it really stands out and makes the page original. She's also positioned text and photos so that the background images are highlighted and not distracting.
I'm also a huge fan on Corinne's layout and design of her whole website. It really carries through a clean and interesting theme that makes me want to know/ learn more, very professional.
Finally, I think Anders' literacy page has some great resources. I'm always very interested to know as much as I can about arts education other than dance! I feel like we have tons to learn and share from each other.

Check out there websites at these addresses below!

https://files.nyu.edu/yl1384/public/

https://files.nyu.edu/ajv286/public/index.html

https://files.nyu.edu/cac728/public/

Blackboard

So when I decided to grad school, I thought I was prepared to get into the swing of things. I hadn't been out of school that long...right? I forgot that I went to a conservatory for undergrad and there is was much more dancing then writing of papers. Not to mention, I made it through my whole undergrad life without a computer! How crazy is that. So needless to say when my professors welcomed me that first week at NYU and keep saying how it's all on Blackboard. I just kept picturing a real blackboard growing larger and larger with a mysterious piece of chalk scribbling out assignments and notes endlessly.
It took me awhile to get used to how to sign on to blackboard and where everything actually was located. I feel like Blackboard is a bit cluttered in it's appearance in general. I wish there were less writing and separation of the screens. I just found out about 2 weeks ago that you can customize your blackboard sign in page though, who knew! Anyways, I do like the actual Blackboard design for each class. I feel comfortable knowing whatever the teacher would like me to have there is a large chance I can find it on Blackboard if I've lost something. I'm curious to see what will be taking over Blackboard now that I've finally figured out how to use it!