When I was in undergrad, I took a class called Professional Communications with the lovely Julia Jasken. Julia wasn’t a day over 29 and though she has taught college courses before, she had never taught that particular course with that particular curriculum at my particular college. The course combined resumes and professional letters, along with website design and a limited Photoshop introduction. It was, to put it mildly, far too much to pack into one course. . Julia could be found crying in her office most days after class. I suppose it was overwhelming, being only one of her to so many confused students. We all had seemingly never-ending questions and technical problems, she later told me that it was rare we got back the first step in what she had planned for that day’s class.
One of our assignments was to design a website for a member of the English department faculty. My partner and I chose the one professor who knew less about designing a website than we did. Dr. Panek was the kind of person who might have referred to it as the “world-wide interweb”.
Strangely enough, the site is still up and you can visit it here: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/english/faculty/lpanek/leroypanek.htm
although it is not much to look at. I cannot believe we spent months on this. To our credit, this was back when Dreamweaver was still owned by Macromedia and every single thing we attempted to use to for was a struggle. I’m often reminded of that class in this class, and seeing what Dreamweaver can do now, watching Professor O’Grady swim along in her lesson plans with only a small snag or snare, looking at that old site and knowing what a piece of crap it is… Well, it all helps me to be not so scared of this wildly advancing era of technology and see it for what it really is… and advancement towards something better.
One of our assignments was to design a website for a member of the English department faculty. My partner and I chose the one professor who knew less about designing a website than we did. Dr. Panek was the kind of person who might have referred to it as the “world-wide interweb”.
Strangely enough, the site is still up and you can visit it here: http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/english/faculty/lpanek/leroypanek.htm
although it is not much to look at. I cannot believe we spent months on this. To our credit, this was back when Dreamweaver was still owned by Macromedia and every single thing we attempted to use to for was a struggle. I’m often reminded of that class in this class, and seeing what Dreamweaver can do now, watching Professor O’Grady swim along in her lesson plans with only a small snag or snare, looking at that old site and knowing what a piece of crap it is… Well, it all helps me to be not so scared of this wildly advancing era of technology and see it for what it really is… and advancement towards something better.
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