week 3

Hello, Yes its week 3 already. The time is whizzing by - soon it'll be chrimbo.

This weeks lecture was great. Our blogs are starting to take shape and it's nice to be in a small group.

The tutorial.
The tutorial is great. Flash is a complete hoot to use and it looks like the assignment will be using this software package too. I didn't want to move a square around the screen so a spider appeared and did the rounds of my monitor. My blogs' email address has been sent in to the university lecturer and its' ready to rock. Our lecturer Geneen Stubbs is totally mad and she has a wicked sense of humour, so i hope my own warped sense of humour will be tolerated.

The computer lab has been updated with some spanking new machines with a few Apple Macs in the middle too. The bad news is that Vista (yuk) has been installed on the server and no-one else likes it either.

The Lecture.
The lecture in the auditorium hall is sweet. Unfortunetly the group is huge. There must be up to 250 plus students crammed in there. Sadly, some of them are not as respecful to the students around them.

My main gripe though, is that there are so many people talking through the lecture. Ok we all like a chat but come on guys leave it for outside. Its hard to concentrate with trying to listen to the lecturer, and at the same time a student harping on about her recent date that has turned to ****.

I particularly like the web sites that Geneen showed us at the auditorum. Michael Kamens site is awesome. Hopefully i can aspire to build my own site in the future and if it is half as good as this one then i will be happy.


Reflection on week 3.
This sounds a bit cruel but i really hope the tutorial numbers go down a bit and the ones that don't really want to be there drift off elsewhere. If students don't want to listen to the lecturer then why turn up in the first place. I hate the feeling of missing out on a really important bit of information because of a group of people talking through the tutorial. I must be starting to sound like an old fart.

I have purchased and installed the following:-

Adobe CS3 suite.

And bought this to accompany it:-

CS3 for Dummies.


Over the next few months i will be spending a few hours a week learning the basics from the book and using this to crack the sofware suite.



Off to bed. First the bog though!

See ya next week.

ss