New Mac & Flash Class

This is my old PC… I opened up the side and stole my hard drive! MOOHARHAR!

This is my new External Hard Drive. I built it myself after I removed my hard drive from my PC tower. OMG I’m so tech savvy!

And this is my gorgeous new MacBook! Everyone say hello!

Other than this, I’ve just made it through the first week of summer semester. I don’t really know what to think about how the rest of the term is going to turn out. Advertising which is mandatory for us to be able to get our Publishing Certificate, is SO dry. Besides, I’m not really interested in Advertising anyway. Hopefully it’ll perk up, but as Ginger (I think) mentioned, the teacher is kind of intimidating.

The Self-Promotion class with Giselle I’m excited about. We are tailoring resumes and cover letters right now for specific jobs. She has compiled a huge book with old job postings from the newspaper and stuff, and I found one from a couple years back that was for an Assistant Editor for the Georgia Straight. So now I have to create my resume and cover letter with this job post in mind. It’s gonna be a neat semester – we’ll end up working on our portfolios too.

Intro to New Media is interesting… a little like film studies, but we end up getting to make movies and cut/edit video footage and then we’ll learn how to make a DVD. We’re using Studio Cut Pro. I’m looking forward to the technical editing part, I’m not too keen on the filming stuff. We have to film a 30-second commercial with a Green Theme. The instructor, has left it WIDE open so someone could film a random commercial all about the colour green if they felt like it. It’s kinda nice that he’s not labelled it SUSTAINABILITY or something.

Intermediate New Media I’m a little bit annoyed with. It’s the Flash class and we’ve already started on our major project. It HAS to be about sustainability and the environment and “green” because that’s Langara College’s new theme. After focusing a lot on the Environmental Content with PRM, I’m a little bit wiped out. Also, I’m more interested in learning to USE Flash – specifically for websites. I want to learn to develop entire websites with flash and interactive design.

I spoke to the instructor, about it… and he said that yes, we’ll learn this – but he is SO excited about this Sustainability Group Project. Flash doesn’t seem like a real “group” thing. This week, before getting the project, we learned how to make a ball bounce around the screen. We have got this project, and had to give an idea of what we wanted to do, without really knowing the potential of the program and ourselves. I think that the instructor was FAR too hasty with this – and also sticking us with a focus is kind of limiting. I thought the summer semester was supposed to be about Self-Promotion in the Publishing Industry not Sustainability Sponsored by Langara College.
P.S. The intructor set up a  Flash Course Blog

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