Orientation week

During this week my classmates and I have done some very interesting things. We were told to write our names and many question answers on a piece of page and stick it up on the white wall. Then we used thread to connect the pages which share same answers. For example I wrote tea for the answer to the question what I like to drink. If someone gave the same answer we would connect his page and mine with thread. In my thinking this is a very good way to let us know each other and it is better than making introduction by ourselves. Also I think maybe this activity contains creative technology.

 

This is the first week I have become a student of AUT creative technology. In general I think I had already known what the course is about before this week, but after I have listened to what James said the first thought in my head is that I have made an extremely good decision and the course is great for me. From his talk I absorbed a lot of new things into my head, which is very good for me to understand more about how the course influences future and what the purpose of this course is.

The next day after this we put all information into a program called 'Gephi' which helps us to link our answers together. Even though it does not clearly show the relationship between those answers at that moment, I can still feel it will be useful for future study. Before I have used this program, I always used Photoshop to draw this kind of graph. Now I can see which one is better on it.

The final activity was working by group. Each group needed four people, and we got some cards and followed the information on the cards to walk around the city. Each one of us got a task to do and at the end we combined photos and videos collected us during the activity, and made a short presentation with a mini film. I very much enjoyed that because the film making process gave me by many surprises.

The orientation week is over but more and more surprises will come next.