7 pm blogpost

[this is starting to feel like a race. . . can I make the 8 pm deadline??]

Well, here's what comes to mind having read my teammates' posts. (I'm unable to locate Kai-Chen's or Mini's, so I'm referring to Vaun and Randa). Wanna start a business?

Vaun has amazing creative talent. And someday I'd like a personal tour of his studio. The glimpse of the pine cones and knick-knacks in his photo reminds me of a card game and books my kids used to have called I Spy that have intricate photos of all kinds of pieces of childhood. He could be our creative guy.

And Randa will make an A-1 project manager. Me? I dunno, I can cheerlead and connect people. I don't see that in any of the roles we read about this week, but it's something I believe is necessary to any project.

As far as job titles that I could actually "sell" to a client (and coincidentally get paid for), I'll go with usability expert--because I'd like to become one, and project manager--because I kind of do a lot of that in my job. I could also serve in a technical role, altho my knowledge is strong in some areas and curiously lacking in others. One of my goals of being in this program is to remedy that. . . I've spent so much time maintaining expertise in the print publishing world, teaching online, and co-managing my program, that I haven't upgraded my web skills as much as I'd like. I teach navigation, designing with metaphors, and interactivity in my Acrobat class, where students create a multimedia project. I teach optimizing Illustrator and Photoshop files for web. I teach typography for web. I learned HTML a zillion years ago and haven't done much with it, although it reminds me so much of the typesetting coding of yore that it's not intimidating at all. But I haven't learned Dreamweaver and Flash, and I hope to take care of that this summer when I'm not teaching.