The amazing depth and breadth of my knowledge!
As a late post for Plass and Salisbury
Once again, what I already knew was explained to me in a way that made me say “Aha, that is what I’ve experienced too!” Many a time I have gotten half way through something and broadened or narrowed my goals to incorporate what can or cannot be handled by whatever system I am operating in as explained in the living system models. You can story board and plan all you want, but until you begin to actually create and work in a new environment you cannot accurately know the limits of your abilities within the time constraints.
I have often had to learn new things in order to meet a goal that I thought I would be able to do with my current knowledge. This goes along with the comment that “the design of the system’s own capabilities and features will result in its change and growth.” (p.5) This, I have found, is particularly true when dealing with a new skill. For example, I can mail merge to print like nobody’s business, but each time I mail merge to email, I learn something new. I can only imagine that as I work more and more on my final project I will more and more learn what I can and cannot do with my current skills and what new things I can learn in the time I have. My eyes may be too big for my abilities, or too small. Who knows? But I can’t wait to find out!
Once again, what I already knew was explained to me in a way that made me say “Aha, that is what I’ve experienced too!” Many a time I have gotten half way through something and broadened or narrowed my goals to incorporate what can or cannot be handled by whatever system I am operating in as explained in the living system models. You can story board and plan all you want, but until you begin to actually create and work in a new environment you cannot accurately know the limits of your abilities within the time constraints.
I have often had to learn new things in order to meet a goal that I thought I would be able to do with my current knowledge. This goes along with the comment that “the design of the system’s own capabilities and features will result in its change and growth.” (p.5) This, I have found, is particularly true when dealing with a new skill. For example, I can mail merge to print like nobody’s business, but each time I mail merge to email, I learn something new. I can only imagine that as I work more and more on my final project I will more and more learn what I can and cannot do with my current skills and what new things I can learn in the time I have. My eyes may be too big for my abilities, or too small. Who knows? But I can’t wait to find out!
posted by evelynne at 8:38 PM
1 Comments:
I agree with you about feeling like the more I work on my final project, the more I will learn about web design and Dreamweaver and JAvascript. (This is , of course, if I ever get done with all the reading and blogging and commmenting and translating and storyboarding...). I am very much a person who learns best on their own by playing around with things and figuring out how they work. Also, like you mention, I feel like I may be planning too big for my abilities but I do like a challenge and this seems like as good as any I have going on right now. Plus, I'd rather have to edit or downsize elements once I realize they are too complicated and I can't get them to work, then to have to add more stuff once I finish and realize perhaps my site is too simplistic.
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