Lecture notes and comments
Week #1
Date: September 1
Outline: Attached to this post are the notes that I took during my second day of class (NMD 100 Journal). The lecture was given by the director of the New Media department Dr. Owen Smith, who is currently on sabbatical but whose recorded lecture from last year we watched during class. I found it very helpful and instructive, mainly because he was outlining what we were going to need to accomplish in the years ahead.
He started off by giving some history about the program itself; the origins of the program, the original focus and direction, and the resources and faculty they had to work with. He then went on to talk about the classes we would need to take our first couple of semesters, and warning us that there would be classes that we would not like or find interesting. He mentioned that we would have to take a broad array of courses until later in our career, when we will then get to choose a focus or two to specify in.
Comments: Though we didn’t get the chance to finish the video, I found the lecture entertaining and extremely helpful. It gave me a much clearer picture of what my next three semesters are going to look like, and I appreciate that very much.
Thanks for reading, and I hope to see your comments
-jamesknight19
September 3
Lecture notes and comments
Week #1
Date: September 3
Outline: For this lecture, we had been given an assignment by our instructor Bill Kuykendall, due two days previous ,that asked us to define in our terms what New Media is to us personally. During today’s lecture, Bill showed a slide show that displayed the entire classes’ definition of New Media one by one, including a picture with a name for each definition. It was a neat assignment, making me really think about what I pictured as “New Media”, but the slide show was even more interesting.
With the slide show, you could see the broad spectrum of beliefs and definitions for New Media. We all knew that each of us had a different definition for the term, but seeing it up on the white board was a powerful example of the all-encompassing nature of the definition of New Media.
Comments: I wondered as I watched all the faces and paragraphs go by if we were asked the same question at the end of the semester, would we still have such a radical spectrum of answers for the question? Even at the end of the year? Or when we get our degree? My guess would be that the spectrum would remain very close to what we saw on the board in our first week of classes in the New Media program. It will be interesting to see if I’m right.
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