Week 10 - Evaluation

Hi,

This is my evaluation for New Communication Technologies. I'm not really sure how to set it out, but I guess I'll start with the lectures, and then with the assignments we were given over the semester.

The lectures were only an hour but they were always really packed with information. In the lectures I found that they often just chatted and used examples, but I couldn't really understand the lecture notes. The lectures didn't really get that much into the theory of the topic so I found it hard so get my head around the notes. The topics we learnt about this semester were challenging and I had never heard of most of them! I liked how I was familiar with a lot of the ideas, I just didn't know the terms used to describe them. I liked how they incorporated Plato's philosophies at a few different times throughout the semester (especially the allegory of the cave a couple weeks ago). I also liked how many of the topics we learnt about, like shot lengths and sizes, I could relate to historical films which is what I really wanted to focus on this semester. As the semester progressed we moved more into technology and science fiction so it became harder to do this.

Some of the assignments were really hard!! We had to find information about stuff I had no idea about, but it helped with my research skills I think. I like the idea of doing blogs instead of regular paper assignments, it's fun and I learnt a lot (before this course I was really not tech-savvy). I think it would have been better in the Tutes if the tutor talked about the lecture notes a little bit to help us get out heads around it. I liked how all the tutors and lecturers were young and know a lot about pop culture (My history lecturer said Bookface instead of Facebook once...). It was also handy when we were talking about Cyber Punk, any movie we would mention the lecturers and tutors would be familiar with.

I'm not really sure what else to say, this class has been fun and I've learnt way more than I ever thought I would. Some of the topics were a bit difficult and the only change I would recommend would be to have a bit more time in the Tutes for the tutor to go over the notes.

Thanks for a fun semester!

Emily