Week 14

This week we showed high school students from Penta the OAD program and what they can do if they decide to come to Owens. Though there were a few kinks when we first started out working with students. We were able to figure it out and it was really surprising that technology was on our side for a change. In my group we had students scan an Owens letter head, use the Wacom Tablet to cut the Owens logo off the scanned sheet , and insert it into a greeting card template in Photoshop.

I thought it was pretty practical what we had the students do, there were varying levels of skill and comfort level with the equipment we had them use. I know I’m not perfect using the same equipment , but still it’s good to have exposure to different bits of equipment and technology. But on the other hand, I don’t know how excited the Penta students were to be in our class in the first place, so I do wonder how much they really cared to begin with.

I did like demonstrating and explaining what activity each student had to do in our group. Though I think that I need to remember to not just grab the mouse away from a student and do it myself, rather I should let them do it. It’s good too to see how much I really know or have learned in class in order explain what’s going on if a student had a question. I mean it’s good to be knowledgeable of what’s going on with a program or piece of equipment because I might find myself in a situation where I am the only one who knows how to work it. Demonstrating something knew requires lots of patience and again just not doing something for someone.

Next week it seems like we will be finishing up our rotation projects. Also within our groups we will need to decide what we want to saying during our decade college presentation. I have already found what I basically want to say for my section of the presentation. It just seems a matter of seeing what everyone else has and making it a whole.