Re: FLASH: A team-based approach to multimedia education [Tom Greene]

[Paul Kilgour]

Clo,


Working in teams has to be the best method of learning anything like this.

After all, when students go out into the big wide world isn't that what

their employer is going to be asking them to do?


Aside from the skills that you need to aquire to produce a finished piece of

work in Flash, Director etc. you need to be able to sit down and rationally

discuss exactly what it is that is required before you go diving headfirst

in. It's the diving headfirst in approach which normally produces the wrong

result, and in my experience this normally comes from people working solo.

(I'm sure their is a lot of present company to be excepted here!:-)


Other very valuable things that working in a team teach are the power of

delegation, learning to work with other peoples limitations, and either

working as a leader, or working under someone else. Very often that someone

else maybe 10 years younger than you - very common now in real life. And

something worth learning to deal with.


Anyway, that was my 2 kroners worth.


Paul.


--

"The people in the Navy look on motherhood as being compatible with being a

woman." -Rear Admiral James R. Hogg



> Hey Tom!

>

> I've just completed an MSc in Multimedia Systems at Trinity College Dublin.

> They have a similar approach to the one you've described.  Two-thirds of the

> final mark is for a group project which is built during the summer months

> and is exhibited in a gallery in October.  A fair percentage of the project

> mark is related to how the team interacted and cooperated with each other.

> It certainly was a huge learning experience.  I've worked in team situations

> before, but never where there was no team leader.  Everyone was on a par

> with each other.  It made for some interesting negotiations - I can tell

> you!!

>

> TCD don't have a placement scheme - but for the past three years - every

> student who wanted a job, got one.  There were a few students who chose not

> to continue their careers in multimedia - they wen't back to their previous

> specialty!

>

> Personally, I believe this team method is an extremely valuable one for

> students. I'd be interested to see how many other universities use this

> idea.

>

> Cheers!

>

> Clo

>

>

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> Tom Green wrote:

>

>>

>> > Each group of students- fresmen ,  graduate and "post-graduate"- are

>> > broken into teams of 4 or 5 and assigned a project for delivery at the

>> > end of the academic year. For example, this year's projects include an

>> > interactive exploration of Breughel's painting "Children's Games", an

>> > interactive presentation of Herbie Hancock's "Sixties Sessions" CD

>> > compilation and  the freshmen (first year students) produce an

>> > interactive CD titled "My Life…So Far" that presents the members of

>> > the group and stresses their differences and their similarities. We

>> > also insist teach class break into groups and prepare an interactive

>> > web site for a local not for profit or charity organization.

>> >

>> > As I said, we started doing this two years ago and the results have

>> > been nothing short of amazing. Two weeks ago I asked the graduating

>> > class ."Who doesn't have a co-op placement?"  Only 4 of 28 hands were

>> > raised. Two years ago, I asked who has a co-op placement and only 4 of

>> > 27 hands were raised. A complete flip.

>> >

>> ><snip>

>

>> > I'd be interested in learning if any other colleges and universities

>> > doing this?

>> >

>> >

>

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