Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog. My name is Karen Baltimore. I am pursuing a Graphic Design major along with a Web Design minor. I am one credit shy of being a junior and am finishing my sophomore year with this class (yay!). This is my first summer course, so I'm a bit nervous about keeping up. I chose to take this class to refresh my Adobe skills before moving further with my design courses next fall. I spent the previous semester in the darkroom learning photography "old school." After having to spot photos by hand, I found myself craving my Photoshop! I learned a great deal shooting in film and hope to carry it forward into digital. I also enjoyed taking pictures so much that this class seemed like a good fit. I am also excited at the prospect of helping find homes for these animals.
This is the first online class I have participated in. As far as expectations, I expect this class to be pretty intense simply because it is a semester's worth of credit hours in only six weeks. As in past art classes, I expect more time outside of class will be required than in other courses. I am hoping that the online lectures are given during the time when my daughter is at school. That is one of the downsides of an online course. At home there are many other distractions, so that will be something that I will be dealing with. I believe I have gotten disciplined enough over the years to get the work done as I need to, but will miss the classroom dynamic for critiques, etc. All in all, I am very excited to see where the class goes.
See you in class!
Karen B.
Excellent start! You made such a good point about being distracted at home. I can completely relate to this. I think the secret is to block out time when you can not answer the phone, emails, children, neighbors, or barking dogs... I am going to miss the classroom environment as well. But this will be a new adventure, and in some ways, we will all being lots more of each other! Great start.
ReplyDeleteIt's so great to hear that someone else is worried about being a bit overwhelmed by the online aspect of this all at first. Now I don't feel like the only one!
ReplyDeleteI agree about being distracted at home. Yesterday while I was skyping into the class; I locked myself in a room and put a sign on the door saying "Can't talk, I'm at school." It seemed to work...let's see how it works today. :)
ReplyDeleteIt seems like you have a lot of experience with photoshop! I may be picking at your brain some during this class!
ReplyDeleteMost of the programs (besides Photoshop) are fairly intuitive and shouldn't be too difficult to learn. You must be good at using programs if you can handle Photoshop, it's a massive program. If you need help with anything I'm happy to help in any way I can!
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