Response to Rebekah and David

Today was the beginning of the Multimedia Presentations for this portion of the semester. I thought that it was really brave for these folks who decided to test the waters and go first. It seems like the first presentations are the hardest because you don't know what to expect or what you are directly supposed to do until after someone goes... so thanks to Rebekah and David for taking one for the team!

Response to Rebekah: I knew that South Carolina has a, shall we say an infatuation, with the mobile home. I am from Rock Hill about 3 hours from here and we are mobile home country. My roommate's sister attends Auburn and she said that students do not live in apartments like they do here in Clemson, rather they rent trailers. In terms of multimedia quality, the pictures we amazing! It shows a lot of effort (especially with your bussy schedule) to take the time to get those shots. It was very interesting to see how our campus can be on the frontline of the mobile home frontier. I also enjoyed looking at the website that you brought up at the beginning. I know that people who live in mobile homes take the brunt of a lot of cruel and mean jokes. I would have liked to see maybe a commerical or a television clip about mobile or modual homes or something. I did like your "model" on the pictureboard, and I think that it was great for you to be able to combine some of your designs and work from the studio into our classroom!

Response to David: I liked the idea of looking at the Bushisms. Our President has a very special language ALL his own that people have a hard time understanding... that could be because he likes to make up words like "nu-kler." I liked how you used some quotes from the speeches, but it was hard to pay attention to the presentation because you were jumping from speech to speech while the audience had no idea what was going on or what speech you were on. I would have liked to seen a copy or transcript of the speeches so I could have read along with you. Even a video clip of the speeches would have been nice to be able to frame up the information and so that we could have a visual to relate to. For me, it was hard to pay attention to the presentation, but the information in the presentation was informative and interesting. I especially liked some of the magazine covers you showed and the picture of all the people referring to Bush's anatomy!