Pixeled Multimedia Teachers Association

Here is the feed back i got from two Flash teachers, one teaching at TAFE and one at UNI.

Tuckers!
This is a bit hard for a cert 3! ... but i passed!...so can i get the certificate now?

A lot of my cert 4 students dont even know this and they have flash for 1 year! (3 hrs a week)

i get from this exam that I think it is showing more of an understanding of how to read code (all code) and understand what variables/strings/etc are, rather than making an application work, although to answer drag and drop to the "people and desk" example is pretty much having to know how to code the piece.
to cover a few languages is making it tough on most students aswell, html and actionScript are both complicated to a beginner!.

Cheers
TAFE Teacher

yo tuckers!.

you can post my email comments if you think it would help the case. what did others respond with. similar comments i presume?!?!
i guess simply put, nerds will understand that befor they even start your class, and very few other peoples brains just dont work in the logic of code so they will struggle to get it in such a short time. thats what ive found with my experience anyway. if its multimedia it needs to have an emphasis on design and most of all "concept development" thats where we lack as well!

Cheers
TAFE Teacher


Hi Ana
I didn't think those questions were too hard. Having said that most of my second years that just
completed a year of flash actionscripting would probably struggle with
them...

I'm a bit concerned that they are still using the Flash 5 method of giving
text boxes variable names and targeting that instead of giving them an
instance name and targeting the .text property - this has been the correct
way of doing it since flash 6 and we are almost up to Flash 9

cheers
Uni Teacher

**** I did explain to him that some schools can not afford to upgrade as often as Uni's, but i thought you might like to see it.

Hi Ana

One part of one subject? Then yes, that is completely unreasonable.
I figured it was for students that had completed at least a year of
Actionscripting, 3 hours a week.

Sure you can pass on my comments.

catch you soon
Uni Teacher