My First Day At College

FIRST DAY AT COLLEGE - 24th August 2009

Had a really fun and action packed first day. Started off with numeracy, to be honest was completely dreading it as i'm not over keen on maths, but surprising didn't go to badly, met our tutor Steve, and he gave out booklets for us to have a go at. I started off at intermediate level 1 section 1 "Read and use a straightforward scale", which I finished and so started on section 2 "Interpret straightforward graphical information".

After numeracy, we then had Hardware and systems, which was basically the tutor finding out how much we knew about computers. What we found out was that some knew more then others, but at the end of the days thats the reason we are at college, to learn things we don't know or to broaden our minds a bit more to what we do.

We then had Creative Digital Media with Gillian (Tutor) telling us the overview of the course and that we will be looking at the creative process and the industry (what type of jobs there are in digital media), as well as doing projects and learning about hardware and software, so we can gain the 4 credits for our course.

After that we had a discussion on how much we used the internet for social networking, gaming etc, and the information we found out was the following:

1. Most people in the class spent in excess of 1 hour per day on web and most 2-3 hours. Some in excess of 6 hours.


2. YouTube was mentioned, but also MSN, Games, Music, Iplayer, Facebook and Bebo Social Networking in general.

To continue on with the discussion we talked about what sort of jobs we were looking at doing when we have finished the course(s) and the answers varied from animator, game developer and photographer to video creators, editors and digital artists.

We then turned to the computers and opened up accounts on you tube, voicethread, googlemail, photobucket and started to be creative and did a south park character of ourselves (which you can see above).