Yes­ter­day, I fin­ished the joke of a class they call “Dig­i­tal Art”. It attempted to cover Pho­to­shop, Dreamweaver, and Flash in 16 weeks and failed mis­er­ably. We were required to pro­duce 3 images, 1 web­site, and 1 ani­ma­tion that had to be based in Flash. If you are a pro­fes­sional, you don’t get (or need) three weeks to pro­duce an image in Pho­to­shop, a sta­tic HTML web­site in Dreamweaver, or a basic tween­ing ani­ma­tion in Flash.

You can check out my port­fo­lio of the semester’s worth of work along with some side projects I threw in there. They aren’t the great­est pieces, but I think it shows some growth from two years ago when I took a telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions class that cov­ered the same mate­r­ial (and a lot more). I got fea­tured for my work in T284 and have been on the class site as an exam­ple of pre­vi­ous semester’s work.

Putting the two courses’ syl­labi side by side reem­pha­sizes how big of a joke FINA D210 was. I feel bad for the kids in there who needed to learn how to use those tools but had a really poor instruc­tor. There need to be more Nor­bert Her­bert’s in the world. I now real­ize how lucky I was to have him as an instructor.

One of these days, I’ll pick through all these port­fo­lios and put one on this site. One of these days…