When you take e-Communication classes, you aren't learning a
subject,
as much as
a way to communicate - about anything. It's a lot like
learning a new language - except this language lets you sense the world
around you, think about it and feel it, and then communicate it to
others with much more than words.
Share your passion
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| e-Communicate your passion! |
e-Communication is how you can really reach people.
What are you interested in? What do you love doing? e-Communication
gives you ways to share it with the world, when a vocabulary of words
alone would be inadequate.
Not every e-Comm student is
going to end up working in journalism, video entertainment, animation,
graphic design, or web design. However, all of you will carry with you
the skills from these areas to apply to any future career, hobby, or
passion.
Noteworthy analogy
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| It's all about the drums. |
To use my own experience as an analogy - music is
what got me through junior high and high school. I earned my bachelors
degree in music. By the time I finished that degree, I realized that I
did not want to be a school music teacher. I taught lessons in a music
store for a few years, while I tried out the life of a "full-time"
professional musician. It didn't take long to decide that wasn't going
to be my life-long career either. I finally got back to teaching school
in other areas than music - BUT all my life there have been countless
little ways that my music background has paid off. It's a hobby and a
love. Through music, I can communicate wordlessly from parts of myself
that are otherwise hidden and silent. I am able to donate my musical
talents to good causes. My life experience would be much less rich, less
interesting, less beautiful - without that background in music.
e-Communication may turn out to be to you what music is to me.
Your superpowers
e-Comm
may not turn into a life-long career for you, but it will stay with you
- giving you enriched ways to see the world around you, and to
communicate what you see and what you are passionate about. Your ability
to get your ideas across through some combination of writing, video,
animation, graphic design, and web design gives your communication extra
range and impact.
You may have noticed e-Communication's new slogan:
Communicate, Collaborate, Innovate, DESIGN.
This
is the stuff that lasts, no matter what crazy new things happen with
technology or software in your lifetime. We also hope you take away some
project management and
leadership skills, in addition to mastering the current
technical content.
Use the Force!
Sure, we love to see e-Communication alumni make it as professional
designers, animators, broadcasters, entertainers, and so on - but our goals go beyond that. We
especially hope that
all of our students take these skills, these different ways of
seeing the world and communicating to others what you see, to enrich your
everyday lives - and maybe even to change the world, regardless of your occupation.
Plus, there's always this, as Mrs. Morris puts it so succinctly:
"What we do is cool."
Mr. Olson
(This is a repost - originally from May 2015 on Mr. Olson's blog - molsononw.blogspot.com.)
