Fall - First Day

Today was the first day for the fall session, and I was support for the Photoshop unit as well as stepped in at the last minute to help with the profiles/Excel unit. The Profiles/Excel Unit was in the morning, and it was a bit hectic, since the students were largely on different pages as far as what they actually needed to do in regards to their individual profiles. Still, some of the students were really good at helping others, which took some of the stress off of Felipe and, to a lesser extent, me. I wish I knew a little more about Dreamweaver in order to answer some of the questions that were asked, but in general everything was kept under control. I was able to impress upon the students the importance of a clean and detailed resume, which is something that I have a good deal of experience with, and I think they really started to listen when we told them that their profiles would help in the future in regards to landing good-paying jobs and the like.

In the afternoon I helped Chris with the Photoshop lesson, and that went off very well. The sophomores are definitely in school mode now, which is a marked change from the summer. Everyone seemed really interested in using the software, and they were having fun with the Pac Man Fix and some of the other picture-editing assignments. Marleny and Jenny were really quick to pick up the clone stamp tool, which I was particularly happy about since it's a great little widget once you get the hang of it. There was a brief bit of confusion when we asked them to surf the net looking for website designs that they liked, but I think part of the issue came from the idea of content versus design, as well as the initial confusion of being asked to look at webpages, which I don't think is something that comes up for students very often. All in all, I think that a lot of good work was done.