Week 4: Review of course so far.

For a couple of weeks now, the course seems to be highly experimental, with the ‘unique’ lectures that want our feedback, the reading materials, and also tutorials. It seems to be an interesting and fun experience.

When lecturers and tutors are welcoming feedback regarding their lectures, as a student, I find it is good to feel like lecturers put a lot of effort into making students feel comfortable with the lesson.

The reading material, on the other hand, has got me wondering. “How does this relate to web media or networked media?”. I thought we would be studying about how to design a webpage and all that but the readings seem to be out of context to what I thought networked media is about. However, it seems that most of these readings seem to open our minds, or to generate a different mindset, so to speak, about the way we think. I find this highly interesting, as it seems to inspire me, as compared to other courses which have rather dry readings. It feels as though these readings are selected for us to broaden our minds before actually proceeding to fill it with information.

Very interested to see how this course pans out.

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  1. […] Vincent offers a four week overview. How to design a webpage? Sorry, lynda.com is a good place to start, but your blogs, for instance, are written in PHP amongst HTML that talk to a MYSQL database and rely on very sophisticated CSS. We might do very simple text editing of a page, just to see that it really is just text, but web design, today, at anything approaching a professional level involves interaction design, coding, graphic design, and systems admin. Most of us auto install a content management system, buy a skin, skin the site. What you should learn is that if you are serious about online work, then you work with a team, with those other skills. Those that can do it by themselves, right now, they choose where hey want to work (a former student of mine is currently in Canada after working in New York, he can pretty much work where ever he wants, those who can code have inherited the earth at the moment, coding is not a media skill). […]

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