Back again to ITB, back again to work.
This is now a new part of my course, a busier part of the course - the second term. We have only just arrived back and the lecture are talk about doing huge, exciting yet vest amount of work. This semester I have to write an account of the new module (well there all new) “Working in Digital Media”- though I may touch on the other module that I am doing this semester as well. These other module include; Human-Computer Interaction, Web Development 2, Mutlimedia Authoring and Digital Imaging.
Clodagh Lynch is the main organizer of the Working in Digital Media module and we had our first lecture with her this Monday. She told us, the first year group, that we have to keep up our blogs about our first year at ITB, as part of our CA work. I wonder if the lecturers of this course want us to become permanent blogger I’m not really fond of working with text… But if it has to be done it has to be done. Maybe I’ll grow to like it… doubtful but maybe…
Anyway back on track, Clodagh gave us a run-down of what CA work that needs to be done and the marking scheme; this is what we have to do fo the CA, which is 100% CA
- CV written in Microsoft Word (5%)
- Book cover Done in Abode Illustrator (10%)
- Presentation in front of Class (10%)
- Photo Story through Stop Motion(20%) and storyboard for it (5%)
- The Blog – each blog consist of 400 words(15%)
- Digital Leaflet-like a brochure (20%)
- Mock Interview(15%)
Clodagh quickly went through what each piece would entail, and showed us good examples of each, so we knew what quality we’d have to aim for in each assignment. She also told us there’d be a class outing to the Digital Hub and another exhibitions as well sometime before the Easter holidays. Clodagh explained that the Digital Hub was a center where new businesses based in digital media when starting up and even stayed based there for a while. It really intrigued me and now I really want to go.S he also said that there would be guess speakers in her lectures.
Later on that day, my class ,Group B, had our first lab in Digital Media with Damien Cox. I was really put out to discover that we weren’t in the Mac labs at all but in a PC lab which will be really annoying if we got work to do in Abode because the ol PCs doesn’t have that programme at all. We started work on our firt assignment that day which was creating a CV.
Then Tuesday came and I had the last of the three labs decided to W.i.D.M this week with Clodagh, where we started to learn how to use illustrator. I find it really hard to use at the moment but I’m sure, I’ll get use to it in time.
That was my busy first week to a busy semester, and that was just one module. So don’t even get me started on the other subject!
