Sunday 6 March 2011

A little glimpse into my day job

I work at my local college full time as a Lecturer and a Learning Support Assistant. Each job has their trials and tribulations as most of them do but luckily for me I really enjoy my job and get to be creative when i'm doing it.

For my next 3 week illustration workshop we will be designing and making zines and so i've made a project brief for my group in the form of a zine. It can be difficult to wade through lots of words for some students and I think just saying it all out loud just isn't enough so I often go for a very visual approach backed up by laying out the lesson each week at the start of every session.

Here is my zine project brief, broken down into weeks and with a big long list of fantastic contemporary illustrators for my group to research.



I hope my students appreciate the hard work i've put in for them! Haha! It was really good fun to tell the truth!

10 comments:

Jenny at Red House said...

Wow! you've put a lot of work into this! hope you get some credit?! jennyx

Boo said...

Oh damn, why can't i be in First Diploma again! I would love to do that project :(

Jess said...

Thanks Boo! I had fun making the brief!

Carrie said...

That is awesome... you can tell you put a lot of thought and time into it!

I truly wish everything had a visual equivalent, would make life so much easier ;)

easyosy cosy said...

Love it! Your students are lucky to have you!
Have you ever come across www.prezi.com?! I just found it today and am smitten... putting a presentation together for a uni assignment and Powerpoint is soooo flat sometimes. This, is fabby tho. Spent a good few hours playing with it this afternoon. And you can sign up free if you're a student/teacher ;-)

potterjotter said...

That is really effective and attractive - you have an obvious talent for that sort of thing - hope they appreciate it!

Jess said...

Thank you all for your kind comments, sadly my students didn't seem to appreciate it, except one who said she wished all their project briefs looked like that. They can't get over excited, they're teenagers!

Michelle said...

What a great idea. My BF is a media teacher so I might pass this on to him.

Michelle said...

What a great idea. I think I will pass this on to my BF who is a media teacher.

Michelle said...

Oops, didn't realise that posted twice.