Thanks

Thanks everyone for working so hard on your assignments. It is going to be a pleasure to mark them all.

Thanks also for being an attentive, hard working and inquisitive group.

Sadly my Contract was not renewed for the rest of this semester, so I doubt I will see any of you again.

Good luck in your future endeavours; if I can help in any way with your careers as Artists, Teachers or in any other way shape or form; please don't hesitate to contact me. I expect my VU address to continue to work till I'm hopefully re-employed on 2010.

The Light at the End

Well folks; the end is nigh, and it seems from the handful of blogs I visited this afternoon that things are pretty much as I suspected. Given that, the contact hours were cut, and the difficulty many of you faced getting your head around the software I understand many of you will feel that your final product may not be as 'polished' as you'd like. I will take all this into consideration, when I assess your work.

The conference I attended was exciting and refreshing, if you ever get the oppurtunity to attend an ITSC conference go, it was worth the money.

A small note of personal promotion, if I may, a website gallery I built, publish, edit, run and maintain, called altfotonet.org, has been recognised by the National Library of Australia as worhty of archiving in their archives, it is a site/publication about photography, have a look see what you think.

Looking forward to seeing some of your projects this week, keep up the hard work everyone, you have indeed worked well, and I am expecting some fantastic results before the end of the semester.

Student Course Evaluation

Around this time of the year you would usually be filling in student evaluation of unit and teaching surveys - however, this year for the first time they are online and can be accessed through the myvu student portal.

Please provide valuable feedback about our work to the university.

Some More Resources

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Here's the online tutorial section of Adobe's website, In the screen grab above, I've turned OFF all the unwanted products in the right column.

Have a look see if it helps?

Revision Materials

Here is the file for the revision exercise for those who were in class on the last day of semester.

The task is to create a 2 page site, in a nodal manner, that, has information about Recipes and cooking, page 2 in particular is to also have a page title that reflects it's content, as well as a series of 6 [minimum] external websites on cooking. Replace all my text with your own on both pages. Add colour and some visual and textual hierarchy, to both pages to make it easy to read and visually pleasing.

Not sure about colour? Here's a website that will help. http://www.colormatters.com

Week 7

Ok my apologies, I've been laying low, mainly because of other commitments.

Here's the plan for this week. I will give a 'revision' exercise to 1/2 the class, the remainder, will, get an abridged version of the last class before the break.

And as we are at the 1/2 way mark, I plan on giving folks ample time to continue projects in class over the coming weeks.

The main issue I want to address soon, is mages and the web. Watch this space.

You should at this point be photographing/scanning/digitising, your 'folios' ready for your websites and be well on your way to finishing your 'publications'. See you tomorrow.

Week 6

I am planning on using public transport tomorrow, so I MAY be a little late [fingers crossed].

This week we begin our online portfolio/website.

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Please download and print this page out 3 times we will use it in class.

Then if I'm a little late, visit this website, for some nostalgia about how the web has looked in the past.

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Later on, watch some of this SBS documentary on the nature of the web today and the attempts to censor it.