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Digital Media in the Workplace

Digital Media in the Workplace. DIG 3035 Fall 2009 J. Michael Moshell University of Central Florida. Original image* by Moshell et al . Imagery is fromWikimedia except where marked with *. Licensing is listed. Getting started …. What’s the course about?.

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Digital Media in the Workplace

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  1. Digital Media in the Workplace DIG 3035 Fall 2009 J. Michael Moshell University of Central Florida Original image* by Moshell et al . Imagery is fromWikimedia except where marked with *. Licensing is listed.

  2. Getting started … • What’s the course about? • Professionalism (some aspects of it, at least) • - What’s a professional?

  3. Getting started … • What’s the course about? • Professionalism (some aspects of it, at least) • - What’s a professional? • * You have the right skills • * You communicate well

  4. Getting started … • What’s the course about? • Professionalism (some aspects of it, at least) • - What’s a professional? • * You have the right skills • * You communicate well • * You have an excellent reputation • * Your integrity is unquestioned • * You DELIVER.

  5. Digital Media Professional • What DM skills are needed? • At least one core competency with tools: • Imagery (Photoshop, Illustrator) • Web Design (Dreamweaver, Flash) • Programming (PHP, Javascript, Java, C++) • Database & Portals (MySQL, Mambo etc.) • 3D Modeling and Animation (Maya) • ProTools Audio, Final Cut Pro for Video

  6. Digital Media Professional • What DM skills are needed? • Substantial experience in project work: • Requirements analysis • Proposal writing • Schedule and budget (realistic cost estimates) • Work flow management, team coordination • Quality control

  7. Digital Media Professional • But before all that .. Who are YOU? • Personal Assessment • Today’s lecture will be about personal • Assessment. But first let’s look at the • Syllabus and Schedule • www.cs.ucf.edu/~jmmoshell/DIG3035

  8. Personal Assessment • Who am I? Where am I going? • Principles • Roles and Missions • Interests, Talents and Skills • Weaknesses and Challenges • Objectives

  9. Personal Assessment • Principles: • Deep truths that govern your life • Other people are more important than I am. • Jack Moshell: “Can I help you?”

  10. Personal Assessment • Principles: • Deep truths that govern your life • 2. Remember who you are. • Vernon Phillips.

  11. Personal Assessment • Principles: • Deep truths that govern your life 2. Learning is a most worthwhile activity. Louis Agassiz’ students said: He was always learning. When he died, he was the youngest of us all.

  12. Mission Statement • What do you want to be? Become? Do? Moshell: I want to help the human race get smart before it gets dead. Wisdom can be found where logic and imagination, left and right brains, meet. I want our grandchildren to have grandchildren.

  13. Mission Statement • You can use this tool if you like: http://www.franklincovey.com/fc/library_and_resources /mission_statement_builder

  14. Personal Inventory • Interests: What motivates you? • Moshell: • Nature • Reading • Travel • Languages • Things that work

  15. Personal Inventory • Talents: What are you naturally good at? • Moshell: • Writing • Problem-solving • Leadership • Imagination

  16. Personal Inventory • Skills: What have you learned to do? • Moshell: • Programming • Course design • Selling (proposal writing)

  17. Personal Inventory • Weaknesses: Gotchas and Fixables • Moshell: Gotchas • Neatness – a constant struggle • Details – don’t have me manage anything! • Improvables • Visual skills – drawing, design • Hard decisions and tough counseling

  18. Objectives • Learning, working or both • Moshell: Learn: • Become a competent Java programmer • Work: • Build Digital Media Department at UCF • Develop new uses of RPGs for learning

  19. Your assignments for next week • Read both Steven Covey Seven Habits articles • Be prepared with PERSONAL EXAMPLES (can be made up) of failure to follow TWO Covey Habits) • write these up. We may take them up, but we WILL randomly sample the audience – you lose points if • You don’t have a written ready answer. • 3. Begin work on your Personal Assessment: • - Principles and – Mission Statement

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