End of Semester Update

Students,

I wanted to update you briefly on the end of the semester activities for the class.

• The commercial projects are changed.  You are not required to make them in collaboration with a classmate.  Getting together has proven especially difficult for some of you, so this is no longer required.  If you've started working with peers and it's going well, rock on.  If not, you may continue with your own resources.  Either way, you are ultimately responsible for producing the final commercial.
  
  ALSO, the due date for the commercials is moved to the final day of class, 12/8.
  
  
• The Museum Project has also proved especially hard to coordinate this semester.  I will provide more details on this in class, but you will likely be turning in only a plan of action or outline.
  
  
• We will use our allotted exam time, TBA, to present your final portfolios.  So while next Wednesday the 8th is our last class, we WILL meet again during exam week to present your portfolios.

We'll discuss more in class.  Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

~MrC

Times Change

New technologies make older ones (aka, formerly new technologies) irrelevant.  See below.

Imagine if you were working with old media and designing content on Linotype machines with lead letters instead of MacPro towers and software.


"Linotype: The Film" Teaser from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.

Now, seriously, imagine that.  In a short essay, 300-500 words, talk about a specific technology that's changed in your lifetime.  It should be one that impacts you directly.  Talk about how it's changed things for you.  Digital publishing made your favorite magazine stop putting out a print edition?  You can no longer find a good music CD store because everything's online now?  You never knew you'd be a DJ/Movie maker, but your computer makes it so easy to explore, you think you may have a career in it?

From pocket cameras to streaming TV online, we live in a world awash in gadgets and rapidly evolving technologies.  This class has involved you working with some of it which you likely have not worked with before, and more and more of this stuff you see outside the classroom and in the hands of semi-professional and even amateurs.  Write about it.  Submit your essay as a Google Doc titled "ART 130 Fall 2010 - Times Change Essay - bcapozzi."  (Substituting your name for mine.)  I'd like these by 5Pm this Friday, 11/12.

~MrC

Local Job Openings

Students,

Just passing along a note about several Job Listings at EBI in Danville, VA.  They're an upholstered furniture and mattress maker.  Admittedly not Multimedia jobs, but I wanted to share.

Find the job descriptions on the page below:

http://www.svhed.org/index.php/workforce-assessment-a-advancement

Or contact Dr. Nettie Simon-Owens, SVHEC Director of Workforce Assessment & Advancement, at nettiesimon-owens@svhed.org or 434-572-5477.

~MrC