Art of Technology

So my instructor for print production has this odd obsession with making us watch online videos. Sometimes they are interesting little movies on graphic designers. However, more often they are videos she finds on YouTube that she relates back to class. For instance, we watched several short videos on different printing processes and how they work or are made. Now if you choose to make us watch videos in order to take up some time in our four hours together, which is honestly another form of busy work, that's understandable. Four hours of one class is a little ridiculous unless it's a lab class; like drawing. Back to why I started this blog though. If you choose to use an online video in class you would think she'd watch them to ensure they have meaning. Or maybe not, because I watched a six minute video on pressing flowers..and another video covered printing in the sense of teaching someone to write the written word. Informative sure, but at eight in the morning it's a little much to have us watch nonsense because your links are wrong. The best part was when she left the room after starting the pressing flowers video and came back well after it had ended. She was all hyped up asking us if we found it educational and enlightening. She was more disappointed when we told her the nature of the clip than I had expected her to become. So while I can't tell you the inner workings of commercial laser printing; I can go press some flowers for you instead.