T189 Digital Photography Unofficial Forum
As the title of this blogpost says, it’s nearly all over now for the first presentation of T189 
The announcement has appeared on my StudentHome page saying that the course website will be closing on August 31st and I imagine that we will lose access to OpenStudio at around the same time. So I went into OS and systematically saved each ‘week’ page to ensure I would have a record of the images I submitted for each week. Then I deleted each week’s images one after the other so my section of OS is now empty.
After that I went to the T189 website and clicked the link which allows each student to save a webpage containing all the images they’ve submitted to OpenStudio together with the comments made by other students on each one. That was a nice feature introduced in response to student requests so the course team/web developer were obviously listening to us.
The folder I created containing the nine OpenStudio pages with their image thumbnails together with the ‘digest’ version which contains the images at full size (480 pixels was the largest dimension allowed) was a fraction over 4Mb in total so not a huge download. It also means I can keep a good record of my OS contributions and comments for future reference 
At the beginning of next month, the OU’s housekeeping department will (metaphorically speaking) be moving into OpenStudio and the website, cleaning and dusting and tidying it up ready for the October intake of new students, all eager and excited at the prospect of studying digital photography for ten weeks Good luck to all of them!
Many ex-T189 students remarked that they are feeling a bit ‘lost’ now that the course has finished. It takes a degree of discipline and dedication to study an Open University course and T189, despite only being a 10 week course, is no exception. Some already have their next course lined up, some were doing other courses alongside T189 and are continuing to study, others (like me) are still undecided and have yet to commit themselves.
I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my blog and, if you decide to take T189, I promise you’ll find it interesting, challenging and inspiring
