Monday, May 7, 2012

Week One Introduction


     





    Hello!  My name is Brittany Murray and I am a rising senior at Meredith College anticipating graduation in May 2013.  I am majoring in Child Development, minoring in Psychology, and obtaining my Birth through Kindergarten license to teach.  I am taking this class because I have a passion for animals and I enjoy taking pictures.  I have never taken photography before; however, I enjoy looking at pictures and taking pictures, too.  I want to learn more about photography and help animals in the process.  I want to learn the best ways to manipulate my digital camera.  I am also excited to keep a blog about my volunteer experience at the Wake County Animal Shelter and post my photographs in the blog.  It is my hope that after taking this class I will feel more confident about taking photographs with my digital camera and help animals find homes.  I am most looking forward to learning the many different ways to capture the animal on my camera and how to make the animal more adoptable in photographs.  Before this class, I just use my digital camera at events and special moments to capture memories.  I do not know a great deal about photography; however, I am looking forward to learning more during my six weeks in the course!  I am looking forward to volunteering at the Wake County Animal Shelter and spending time with the animals! 
     I am nervous and intimidated because I have never taken a photography class or worked at an animal shelter.  I have a tender heart and worry that I will become sad during my experiences at the shelter; however, I know that through this class I am helping the animals!  I have never edited photos through a software program and I hope that I catch on and am able to learn all of the many things about the software program and editing pictures.  I am intimidated that I will be new to the shelter and not as knowledgeable as the staff who works there.  I plan to work hard to learn all that I can from this course and my time at the Wake County Animal Shelter!  I have not taken online classes before but in my Child Development classes, we do have “online classes” in which we meet online instead of face-to-face three or four times during the course of the class.  I expect to have to keep up with the work for this class and remain flexible.  I also expect that even though the class is online, I will still be responsible for completing my assignments and attending class when we do meet face-to-face.  I also expect to spend time completing my volunteer hours and editing the photographs.  I understand that the syllabus can change and I must remain flexible and keep up with the work load as we will not attend class each day.

2 comments:

  1. So glad to have you in the class and it is great to meet you. I appreciate your dedication and commitment to hard work!

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    1. Professor Johnstone, thank you! I am very excited about this class! I have already learned so much and cannot wait to see what the rest of the summer session has in store! Not only am I learning in the classroom and with my camera, I'm learning about the animals and the Wake County Animal Center as well! I will continue to work hard and be dedicated to this course!

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