Reflection on making brochure

Sometimes, I wonder how our life would have been without ICT because ICT has become the most important tool in the 21st-century teaching and learning world.  ICT was not my preferred module when I was just new to college. Whenever there was a task to do related to ICT, my heart gets heavy as I was not exposed to it. Unfortunately, we were asked to make a brochure for the module called ‘Child development’ in the first year. I was bewildered when I heard the sound ‘Brochure’ and I wasn’t really aware of the phrase ‘brochure’ despite the fact that I have seen it.  Since I have little idea on ICT usage, I didn’t even think about searching for making brochure on Google.
   

 So, I asked one of my year mates about making a brochure. She just told me to divide the Microsoft words page into three parts and put whatever materials needed in the brochure. At first, I thought that it is easy to make a brochure if our work is to just use the micro soft word and put everything in that 3 divisions of page.  I also did the same thing as she said by putting information and pictures to look brochure appealing and attractive. Though I was able to create it an attractive one, I got all my materials misplaced when I opened the document. I had a tough time placing the materials into its original place. So, I couldn’t produce a good brochure.

Usage of ICT is limitless and it never ends because the 21^st century is a technology world. We were again assigned task on Health and Physical Education to make a brochure on any of the human body systems in 7^th semesters.   I wasn’t left in bewilderment like I did in the first year as I have a little knowledge of what the term brochure means and how is made.  Right away, I searched on Google, how to make a brochure.  It gives a lot of information. Then, I used Microsoft PUBLISHER to make a brochure instead of Microsoft Word. It was much better than using Microsoft Word because the publisher is much simpler and effective. When we use a publisher, we can select shapes and graphics and drag them to precise locations within our document but can’t do that in Microsoft Word.

From these experiences, I came to realize that the “failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us”.  I would have never known how the brochure will be made if I didn’t make a brochure in the first year though I hadn’t made it well.  Now I have good knowledge of making a brochure. With my awareness of using a publisher template to make a brochure, I could even teach my students in the near future.  

 This is the sample of my brochure.