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Category : Featured, Teaching
Looks like I’ll be teaching at Tunxis again this semester. Can’t wait to get started again as I have a lot of fun the last time we did this. The class is going to be restructured slightly to showcase the strengths of flash without showing too much to overwhelm students. Last year I think I may have gone a bit too advanced and gone beyond the comfort level of some students. Furthermore, with the impending ‘death of flash ‘quickly approaching I don’t think it makes too much sense to spend a ton of time on it .
More on the death of flash in the next post. This is not to say that it’s dead yet but its being used less and less by good designers and developers for good reason.
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Category : Around West Hartford, Social, Teaching
To all my students: Thank you for all your hard work this semester. I hope you got as much out of the classes as you could. If you have any questions in the future – please dont hesitate to ask me. Just because you’re no longer in my class does not mean my door is closed.
Reflections:
Im only going to teach one class a semester from now on. I wanted to able to go in deeper with both classes and I think I could have if I was clearer about the class objectives and what I was expecting. This was my mistake. A demo reel of examples I had found to go with each assignment would have been instrumental in achieving this.
I’m glad I did it though, I learned Flash CS 4 in 5 days and met some new people who I hope to be working with int he future. Actionscript 3 is still greek, but I’ll have to learn it evenutally to begin working with
AIR.
The easy road isn’t rewarding… It’s easy.
