Tuesday morning was spent in the same classroom with the same instructor as last semester for four hours of Multimedia Applications. We touched upon the very basics of text, sound, video and images along with Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash.What about a whole semester of Illustrator and a whole semester of Dreamweaver and a whole semester of Photoshop? MCU doesn't offer Multimedia Applications II but they most definitely should.
I like this class due to the fact that it's hands on. Our professor asked the class to do one final project, breaking us up into eight different departments each being responsible for a certain element. I was a secretary for the Producers and it was much like an office job — I got in a lot of Facebook time.
Posted from last semester:
The classroom was like a freezer. Signs hang on the A/Cs requesting that they not be switched off. Although Taiwan is considered to be warm year round, it can get cold. One day, the temperature dropped to nine degrees and I swear the machines were spitting out ice. The teacher obeyed the signs and refused to turn them off. The students, however, rebelled. Off was not an option so we turned it to the least offensive setting we could find.
It's been an exceptionally hot summer so far and it is real unfortunate that the A/Cs weren't spitting out the ice as per last semester. Instead, they hardly let any cold air out at all and then during our last class they broke down completely — on the day we were required to give presentations.
An empty classroom was right across the hall with working A/Cs but no attempt was made by the university to move us. Instead we got to sit in a boiling classroom in one of the highest buildings on the highest floors and have workmen come in and out trying different solutions as we gave our presentations. Talk about distraction.
The lady from MCU whose job it was to stand there and oversee the workmen should have made it her responsibility to find us a cooler classroom. Perhaps the one directly across from us, the one that someone locked when we went in there to cool down? That would have been a good choice.
This class marks the first PRO of second semester with many more to follow, I'm sure.
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