Re: FLASH: The REAL World (A Teacher replies)

[Tom Green]

Imagemodelsaol [dot] com

 wrote:


> Your experience with your University is not at all unique, and dont expect it

> to get any better..... Univ's. are inept at dealing with the "real world"

> market forces that their students will be in. And for a good reason: it

> changes damn fast. They cant possibly keep up.


As we would say up here in the one true northland where we live in Maple Trees-

That is a load of wolverine crap.


I teach at a post secondary institution ( Humber College's School of Media

Studies) and, I hate to break it to you, we sure as hell aren't inept . Hold it.

Yes we are.


Only 98 % of our graduating class ( 65 warm bodies)  got jobs in the industry

last year. Too bad it took ,on average, 30 days after graduation to find

fulltime employment. Mind you a few of them couldn't find jobs in Toronto so

they went to work for firms in San Francisco, New York, London (England),

Chicago and Montr�al. So yeah, I guess we are inept if we can't train them to

stay in town or to say no to a recruiter.


I have to agree with you that we can't possibly keep up. This is why ours is the

only Community College in Ontario that is an Authorized Macromedia Training

Centre. Of course moving our curricullum to train our students in Director 7,

Flash 4, Fireworks 3, Dreamweaver 2, Pshop 5.5, Illustrator 8, Freehand 8 and so

on within three months of each upgrade's introduction could be seen as a bit

slow but what the hey � we are teachers. What motivation could we possibly have?


And I gotta tell, you, those G3's and SGI's in our labs make serious kick-ass

word processors and are one hell of a development platform for Power Point

presentations.


And that real world market forces observation is oh so true. Sully academia with

that filthy lucre? Go forbid. That's why we only hire instructors that are

washed up hacks who think whizzy multimedia is two slide projectors synched to a

Uher Reel- To- Reel tape recorder. And you wouldn't believe the debates we have

in the faculty lounge when I use "Flash" as a noun.I always wondered why Colin

Moock teaches at Sheridan College. Thanks for clearing that one up for me.


Now all I have to do is figure out why colleges and Universities in Asia,

Australia  and the U.S. are spending time in our classes figuring out  how we do

it.


How do we do it? Simple. We show them your statement and tell them�  "Do the

exact opposite."





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