SyllabusCritics221Fall2007

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Advice
At the end of the semester, Practicum Block students were asked, "What advice would you give to someone who's going to take this class?"
 * Get a laptop if you don't already have one. -- Heather
 * Make sure to have plenty of time to spend on campus if you have dial-up Internet at home. -- Heather
 * Be as creative as you can be! - Steph
 * Don't wait until the last minute to work on the projects. -- Steph
 * Don't be scared. It's not that hard. If you need help with the technology stuff, call me. -- Luke
 * Luke IS the God of Technology. -- Andy
 * Don't procrastinate. Ever. -- Anonymous
 * This class is not as hard as it seems. -- Brian
 * Make friends with your Block and be ready to spend the night in the Mac Lab. -- Renee
 * Your computer is your best friend! -- Renee
 * Never wait to do anything. If you have the time to work on your projects, do it. -- Aaron
 * Get used to not having the luxuries of sleep, food, and leisure time. -- Jeremy
 * Use resources that the computer lab offers whenever possible. -- Melissa
 * Always check the wiki. It is your Bible. -- Meghan
 * Don't wait until the last minute to do projects or readings. -- Meghan
 * Find out your projects ahead of time while you are in the field, if you have time, so that you can get a head start on some of the digital projects. -- Kelly
 * Do your work soon, you WILL run into issues and if you put it off, you will need Advil. -- Andy
 * Have fun with it. If you try and be too serious, you won't do well. -- Andy
 * Do some work ahead of time for Dr. Grace so you have more time to do the projects in this class. -- Mandy

Surprises
At the end of the semester, Practicum Block students were asked, "What surprised you most about this class?"
 * The fact that I did it. I never thought I would spend so much time on school. I never thought I could literally devote an entire day to a class. I'm more of a perfectionist than I thought. -- Luke
 * How quickly I discovered how to use the new technology (iMovie, GarageBand, Comic Life). -- Steph
 * The intensity of the work. This went not just for this class but Practicum as a whole. Though we were allowed to be creative, the workload was still there. -- Anonymous
 * How creative I could be with technology. -- Brian
 * How creative I was allowed to be. -- Anonymous
 * How hard it was. -- Aaron
 * So many people mastered the technology so quickly. -- Mandy
 * How much better Macs are. How much fun I had. How fast it went. -- Renee
 * The work wasn't as heavy as I thought it was going to be. Most of the time I spent "working" I was actually just procrastinating. -- Jeremy
 * How much fun I had and all the friends I made. -- Jeremy
 * How much my work improved, visibly, from start to finish. -- Andy
 * How dependent I became on the wiki. -- Kelly
 * How relatively easy it is to make Web pages. -- Andy
 * How much knowledge I gained about technology. -- Kelly
 * My ability to be at all technological. Some of the techniques we learned were deceptively easy. -- Heather
 * How much knowledge I gained about Macs and the use of technology. -- Meghan
 * The amount of digital products I was able to produce. -- Melissa