Spring 2012

Ok, so I am not very timely with my posts, but I have a very valid excuse. Due to some oversights, I was informed by the SCC counseling staff that one of my classes from Oakwood would not be accepted for the humanities general education requirement, so I had to take a class this past summer 2011. The same thing happened again when I went to register for the Spring 2012 session. They ended up not accepting the Life Teachings class from Oakwood and I had to take another class that would meet the requirement for the Life Skills category. So now, instead of taking 3 class the Spring semester, I have 4 classes. Yikes! I was not prepared for that. Had I known, I would have taken the class in Fall 2011. Oh well, it is too late to cry about it now.

I am taking GCOM362 Intermediate Web Design, GCOM370 Web Projects, GCOM340 Beginning Digital Illustration, and PSCH410 The Psychology of Creativity, Intuition and Problem Solving (that’s a mouth full)!

I took the Beginning Digital Imaging and Beginning Digital Illustration class the past semester and this semester, because due to limitations and budget cuts, a lot of the other courses are not being offered. Aaron Winters is teaching the Intermediate Web Design and Web Projects classes. He is very knowledgeable and has been very patient and helpful. Unfortunately they are not offering the Advanced Web Design class, which he had been teaching, but hopefully they will in the future and I think I will come back and take it later down the road.

For now, I am trying to keep my head in the books and trying to be prayerful in getting through this semester as I look forward to graduation on May 16th, Lord willing!

I will try to follow up with some class work examples soon.

God bless you all and keep praying for me!

Fall 2011

This post is way overdue. I have been so busy, that I am just now getting an update. Sorry for the delay.

I had a very productive and enjoyable Fall semester at Sacramento City College. I took GCOM 313 Beginning Digital Imaging from Tom Cappelletti and it was great. Tom is one of the best professor I have. He is approachable and always willing to answer questions. I recommend that anyone who wants to get their AA degree consider the Graphic Communication major. The teaching staff knows their stuff and you will be well prepared to work toward your B.S. in Graphic Design, Web Design or Interactive Media fields.

I also took GCOM347 Typography from Missy Anapolsky. She is awesome, but be prepared to work! We did a lot of thumbnail sketches, but she gives you a really good design fundamental foundation. However, you have to do the work. Missy is very approachable and eager for you to be a critical thinker, and be able to critique your work as well as others. I met some really nice people in this class.

Only one more semester to go!

Summer 2011

Well, I thought that Summer School would be easy. A quick 4-week class and it would be a piece of cake. Yeah right! Oops! I did not realize that a 16-week class could actually be crammed into 4 weeks, but they did it.

I took Introduction to World Religions and thought that I was going to have to drop the class. It was Monday through Thursday, 3 hours a day, with 3 to 4 hours of reading and another 3-4 hours of note taking for me. My eyes were tired and my hands were getting weak, but my husband would not let me give up. With his encouragement, and a lot of prayer, I pushed on to complete the course.

There was a daily essay quiz, 2 written papers (minimum of 5.5 pages) due by the end of the course and a final written essay examine. I was not sure what grade I would receive, as I did not have very much confidence in my writing skills after 20 years out of school. Well, the day of the final exam, I prayed before leaving the house, I prayed before getting out of my car and I repeated “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!” – all the way to class from the parking lot.

Ten days later I checked my grades at the school’s records and admission office. To my surprise, but relief and much joy, I received an A in the class. The Lord is truly blessing me and sustaining me, as I give myself no credit for this accomplishment. I give all praise, honor and glory to God!

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!”

Spring 2011 Final Results

Wow! My first semester back to school was quite a challenge. However, the Lord brought me through in a mighty way. I was blessed to complete all five classes with five As and made the Deans list with a 4.0! Hallelujah!

I had some great instructors and I am thankful for the opportunity to attend school.

It just goes to show you that with a lot of prayer and a lot of hard work, you can finish what you start!

 

Visit My Class Website

This is a site that I created for my GCOM 361 Beginning Creative Web Design Class in the first few weeks of class.

http://at.scc.losrios.edu/gc361/Student01/

Video Editing Projects

Here are two videos I completed for my GCOM332 Advanced Image Editing using Photoshop class.

I hope you like my little videos!

Web Content Draft 01

Our assignment was to place the web content for our site project into Microsoft Word or some other text editing program. We were suppose to be sure to include paragraph headers, bullet lists, block quotes, links and image placeholders. Five pages were to be included with at least 100 words per page. I did 8 pages.