Course Evaluation

New Communication Technologies was not exactly what I had expected. I just came out of a year and a half of doing a bachelor of psychology, so to come into a course like this, it was a dramatic change that's for sure. I was so used to having rigid and strict criteria to follow, whereby I knew exactly what was needed and what was expected by me as a student.

So to come into tutes everyweek I found it different and at first very hard to adjust to. I was so used to being lectured by a tutor, telling exactly what was needed (as psychology is more science and maths based). So there was nothing arbitrary about it. Going to class and having to 'feel out' and 'self learn' was definately something I needed to get used to. I felt so silly sometimes having to constantly ask for help in tutes as I could see everyone around me busily working away.

As for the lectures, there was a lot of content to get through and a lot of readings (which isn't a bad thing at all, I don't mind reading for some strange reason). Sometimes it seemed like it was a lot of content for one week, then it jumped to a completely new topic the next. I can understand the rationale though, as it is new communication technologies, whereby everything changes about every second. It's good to see how educational institutions, like the university, understand that things are forever changing and try to adapt to the demands from the world.

All in all, I believe I have learnt things, even though at times I just wanted to give up and delete y blog, that will remain with me for a long time. Like blogging for instances, I never thought that in a million years I would write a blog. It was just never something that I ahd been interested in. But having done it as part of the course, I have a new appreciation for people who do this type of work as a living. It is so tedious and time consuming and an easy trigger for frustration.

I believe that the teaching team really know their craft and enjoy their work. They seem passionate, which shows when they are lecturing. I have sat through so many lectures where the lecturer just reads from their slide show. So it seems these guys really know what they are on about, and it makes it so much easy to learn.