Comments on Medp 150

The labs for Medp 150 were more interesting than the lectures. It's good to get hands on experience. I feel like I learned more in the labs, I mean this is a production class and the best way to learn those skills are by actually doing it. It's important to have instructions and guidance, but sometimes it's easiest to learn by trial and error, just playing around and see what works. At the same time, I thought we should’ve had a little bit of guidance when learning to use Photoshop. Some parts were easy to figure out, but other parts were more complicated. A suggestion for labs could be to have to people there to help us out. I have nothing against the teachers that were there, it’s just that the teacher is always busy helping another student out and sometimes you have to wait a long time til they can get to you. I tried asking my friends for help, but they had to do their work too.

I didn’t enjoy all of the lectures, mainly because they were long. The material was good, and the power points were presented well. I thought it was good that they put their personal input into them. It would’ve been much easier to pay close attention the entire class if they were a little shorter. Something that’s trivial, the attendance didn’t get circulated to the entire class and we had to wait like ten minutes after class to sign the sheet, so maybe it would be good to come up with a better system.

Something that's very important that needs to be changed about this class is the reviews for the tests. I think it's important to give us an idea of what they are on, not just to study the entire semester's notes. It's hard trying to figure out what topics to focus on, and what topics aren't important. Many times when taking a test that I don't know what material to study, I find that I don't spend enough time on stuff that actually appears on the test and spend too much time on stuff that doesn't appear on it. I find myself saying if I only studied that part a few minutes longer... It's a lot of material to remember, on top of all of the other classes we're taking. Each class is individual and important, but we have lots of material to remember.

Hunter College needs to have classes on radio! They need to have labs for radio too so students can gain more experience and learn how to use equipment. I have a show at WHCS (Activity Grrrls' Radio Revolution) and know how to broadcast, but not everyone gets the chance to learn the more technical stuff. Even if they can’t create classes on radio, they should devote on lab in this class to radio.

Even though it wasn’t too easy to figure out, I’ll remember how to use Photoshop. I was excited to learn how to use it! I feel I have some skills in this area, but I could learn more.