Just after lunch I successfully submitted my CMA for T189 through my OU StudentHome page. There’s only one CMA and it’s a twenty question multiple-choice affair with simple tick boxes to indicate your chosen answer. It’s worth 10% of the marks for the course and, admittedly, you don’t actually need it to pass the course but it seems daft to skip it. The deadline is Monday so I imagine there will be a few students submitting tomorrow as well.
Things are relatively quiet on the T189 First Class conferences front this weekend, apart from an ongoing discussion about whether you can pass T189 without using Elements to edit any of your images. Theoretically, if you shot virtually perfect images with your camera, this should be possible. However, even the best images can often be ‘tweaked’ by a little judicious cropping or ‘digital darkroom editing’ using Elements. I think the question originally arose because it was suggested that those students who had had almost insurmountable problems watching the tutorials and practising the techniques demonstrated, might be disadvantaged by this fact. On the other hand, I would imagine it’s perfectly possible to get so carried away with all the wonderful options offered by Elements that you end up over-editing an image. Perhaps moderation should be the keyword when preparing the T189 ECA?
Downloading the new .avi files from the T189 website is proving to be quite a long-winded process. I thought rather than ask for a new disk, I’d just work my way through the videos, download them to my hard disk and probably burn them to a DVD for reference purposes. I’m not surprised to discover that my download speeds have dropped significantly this evening, when there are probably a lot of other T189 students also downloading the videos. I’m lucky enough to be able to download during the daytime when the speed is much better. I’ve completed downloading tutorials for Weeks 1 – 6 inclusive so I just have 7, 8 and 9 to go. Already I’ve accumulated 1.5Gb of files in the New Tutorials folder so it’s a task that definitely requires patience!
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I’ve added a sidebar blogroll link to the first presentation T189 student group over on Flickr which can be found here:
It currently has 65 members and readers of this blog might like to pop over and take a look at our talented crowd!
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I’ve also joined Britblog which is well worth supporting and provides links to an amazing variety of British blogs:
Welcome to BRITBLOG: The Directory of British Blogs
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Plus a couple of my personal favourite blogs to add to the mix …
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Enjoy!
