My last blog post for class

That's it! Wrote my last final today, school's almost over and this is the last blog post for the Mcom 63 class...

Wow, time really flies! And as a result of this fast passing by semester: I improved a lot! Compared with the first day of class where I could hardly spell Photoshop I do so much better by now! Also I discovered the options the web and its tools gives (including iMovie, PodOmatic etc.). Therefore I asked my boyfriend if we could buy a video camera sometimes so I can keep on making little fun movies of whatever. He was not to thrilled by the proposition... yet!

Further, the class and the project helped to socialize with people. After moving here in December I did not know anybody - now I have some email addresses and phone numbers : )

So thanks for teaching, Mrs. McCune, and your patience! Hope you had a bit of fun with us, too. I guess if you only had half the fun I had, you had a blast : )
(And I also hope this post is not too late for being graded...)

I will keep on writing blog posts - maybe in this one, maybe I start a new one and I will surely improve the frequency of my German blog posts for the people back home.
And who knows? Maybe that little video camera might motivate me to create the next vacation video!

Thanks,
tanja

A look back

So the final project is presented and therefore done with.

Looking back there are a few things that come to my mind I want to give some thoughts about:

- working with Trisia was not only fun, but also very productive. I guess we had a good communication going on so both of us knew what needed to be done by whom and until when. We also emailed lots to make sure we both were on the same level of knowledge concerning the project.

- I guess we could've made the Sharks project a bit more fun. After watching the other projects presented, ours seemed a bit boring... Maybe I think this way because I feel like we did not really use all the media in the most fun or entertaining efficent way. For a next project I definitively will bring in the fun factor!

Other than that I felt confident with our project. We tied everything in that was requested and did not a too bad job after all. At least in my perception it worked. Hope the others liked it, too.

In between

The title of this weeks blog post has a double meaning.

So we’re in the middle of our project: Adding, changing, discussing, trying, giving up, laughing, creating… a great process over all. It’s interesting to actually do – create! – something with all the stuff we learned in these past months.
And I learn: It’s lots of fun. Of course, not everything goes as smoothly as I want it to be. And it’s mostly not as easy as it looks when the pros do it… Guess there’s some more practice required. But this also means: Room for improvement!

In the middle. Right. Sometimes it seems as if the media project is in the middle between two other final projects that are themselves again in the middle between work and a class… The end of the semester – which is my first one at SJSU – seems to be a bit crazy. A creative, motivating craziness somehow. Weird – I feel that way even thought I am older than the average student. So maybe this means that I am not that old in the end. Or maybe I’m just in the middle – between 15 and 30 somewhere : )