Scheduling!!!!!!!!!!!!!eat my ass.......................

The Lecture.

I was ill this week and could not attend - (stomach bug) on researching the subject it was just a follow on from last week on text and fonts.

One thing i have to shout about this term is the state of the scheduling of our work. We have had a long period of complete inactivity for the last month and now i have been issued with four pieces of heavy assignments in one week!!!!!!! This is a complete piss take. Why we have our assignments spread evenly across the term time. Its crazy and its causing a lot of stress amoungst the other students.

And before someone pipes up and says "Well if you read your prospectus it says you are expected to allocate 40 hours a week for your study time" i know this, and do so, sometimes to the detriment of my home life.

For example the last assignment i completed was a 30 hour piece of work for computer systems. I actually took approx 50 hours to complete this as i took a great pride in my work and subsequently achieved a 2.1 mark. Why then do i feel dissapointed with this grade? Well as i sat at the front of the class on the hand in of the assignment i noticed something really bad.

Students were handing in their assignments and i'm not kidding you, some of them were nothing more than 2 or 3 pages of A4 stapled together with a scribbled name on them???????

I could read the lecturers facial expression as this crap was handed in to him. It must be sooo easy for him to gauge who will pass and who will fail this coursework by the quality of work given to him.

My work was 31 sheets spread over 4 sections and a bibliography, all bound in a document holder with backup cd rom in case of any accidents. I worked my nuts off on it too as i wanted a good first grade to set up a foundation for the next 2 courseworks.

Why am i pissed off then???

Well with the volume of coursework that has been thrown at me this week i will have to make tough decisions to which assignment is going to take the most of my time.

One piece will have to take the hit for grades for another and that to me is not right. I want to try to get as high a grade as possible on all my work not pick and choose what work i think will scrape a pass and what work will gain good marks.

Then i was told from a senior lecturer that the object of year 1 was to get onto year 2 and the marks didnt really matter as long as you passed!!!!!!!!

So why dont i just allocate equal time to each assignment then in the hope of just scraping a 40% on all.

This seems wrong to me - if the scheduling of coursework was equal then it would not happen.

Rant over for now.


The Tutorial.

We were on dreamweaver again this week. I am getting frustrated with the teaching methods though! First let me point out Andreas is awesome. If theres an issue then he is very supportive and knowledgable. My point is that in my opinion the tutorials are not set out correctly.

We are given a paper worksheet to get on with and any problems we are expected to pipe up to Andreas. Ok thats fair enough but can i make a suggestion on another teaching method.

USE MULTIMEDIA NOT
MULTI PAPERSHEETS

Why not set the tutorial up on the computer that is linked to the projector screen. Actually then do the tutorial sheet step by step with all the students following on their computers.

• Visually it would be so much more effective.

• It would save the lecturer sooooo much time in having to go round each student one by one with problems.

• Think of the paper mass saved each week.

• You will get a better attention span from the students too.

Please feel free to comment on this idea.




The Reflection.


Well this week i feel that i have been fairly negative, but i feel my comments are warranted.

The module title is Multimedia Computing and i expect to learn a range of multimedia tools and techniques to enable me to go out into the real world and earn big money.

I am not going to go out into the real world after learning all this and start using a pencil and paper again!

If that was the case then we would all be driving around on horse and carts after spending all day designing Porsches wouldn't we.

Off to make some brown soap....................SPLADOOOOOOOOSH , get round the u-bend baby!!.