Internet and Digital Graphic Technologies for Students

 

Galcalia is a take on Calgalia, Twitter’s IT Tweet about Internet Technologies is @Calgalia.  Sometimes more needs to be said on a subject announcing something new, something a student in Technologies wants to know about, so a blog good.

Send your own announcements only if it applies directly to college students learning the Internet or Digital Graphic Technologies… not including CAD, but more fine arts, and the commercial apps. possible in Digital Graphics Design and the Internet Technologies for Students.  This blog will not like commercial links unless there are benefitting the Fine Arts, Digital Graphic Technologies, or Internet Technologies as suppliers for students, and no online stores please.  Students can Google commercial links, online stores, and find their own.  Hot news in these fields, please send it to me.  I will avail an email account to this blog.

ANNOUNCEMENT: ADOBE.COM

Adobe has released, begun selling Creative Suite 5.  Students be sure to get your student prices locked in by ordering from your student campus store. In California you can use a Community CollegeStudent Body Card to purchase at a state college/univ. or see if your own bookstore on campus is an Adobe Reseller (ask the manager of the bookstore).  To view products, see http://www.adobe.com/.  Click on Products and find the Creative Suite options.

EVER WONDER?  WHEN IS A MAC USED IN CLASS?

School campuses usually are using Mac computers in classrooms for any Digital Graphics Courses.  Consult your own college ahead of time.  You may have to ask a manager of Fine Arts about the Digiotal Graphics question if there is not a separate Digital Graphics Department, or try an e-mail to the instructor to ask if Macs are used.  It would be nice for course announcements at colleges to specifiy when Macs are used in class, right on the course schedule in the catalog.  Please ask your college to do this.

WHEN IS A PC LAB USED FOR A CLASS?

I have personally seen PC Labs used for classes about Microsoft products, (Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, and Access as well as for Keyboarding courses  and Microsoft proprietary computer languages such as Visual Basic.NET, C++.NET and for Web Services,  and for some Computer Networking courses.

COURSE CATALOGS ARE LACKING in giving students information about the Computers used [PC or Mac] in course announcement schedule booklets… nice to know before enrolling if that is an issue or you are not able to use a Mac.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FRESHMEN have survey courses , COMS100, which is not using a computer but is lecture , textbook course and then COMS110 or lower, is the first hands-on course for those needing to know the overview of computer use.  Community Colleges are still seeing some high school grads need hands-on entry level computer work so the course stays on schedules and fills up fast.  Register early.

COLLEGE BOUND?

Consider sharing a color laserJet printer such as the HP Color LaserJet 1518ni which is a network printer that can work off a shared router in the dorm room… Check first with your dorm person or if in a house or apt., you will need a shared DSL connection to set it up.  I used a wireless router and make sure my phone is not 2.8 frequency for a Dect 6.0 frequency lately so the computers, the wireless laptops and wireless cell phones and wireless cradles can all get along.

One student can buy the printer and own it.  Ink will be 4 colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black and the cartridges are a lot cheaper in the long run about pages /per cartridges against the smaller printers, but $75 a whack for a large laserJet cartridge.  I buy two sets of all 4 outright when I buy the printer, then just replace one as the need arises, so always have two sitting back…I wouldn’t want to have to go shopping in the middle of printing a homework at the last minute.

CONSIDER AN INK JET PRINTER.

Quality of print is not as good as the lazerJet but the price is better for the printer.  You will be buying a lot of ink more often with this smaller sized ink cartridge and will not get the corresponding number of pages for a cartridge.  By the time you buy enough cartridges, to equal the volume of ink in one laserJet cartridge, you will have also paid more for that volume of ink.  Here,  bigger ink cartridge is better (not for initial cost), but a savings in not having to buy so many cartridges of the lesser price to get the same job volume printed.  It is your decision.  Digital Graphics classes need a good printer.  Adobe software courses such as a PhotoShop class, an Illustrator class will be doing printing of high resolution.  I favor the LaserJet production for high resolution graphics, unless I send my photo files to http://www.mpix.com for printing.  Homework at school, may not have to be so discerning.  Professionally, use the more professional quality result for your clients.

B&H PHOTO VIDEO has catalog, AUDIO, COMPUTERS, CAMERA SUPORT, SOFTWARE, HOME ENTERTAINMENT and more…. They are a huge store in New City which will ship direct and take phone orders. (See below)

Technologies and Courses Requiring any Camera, Lens, Video, AV Projector, Computer, Home Entertainment, Software etc. I want you to know about requesting a catalog from http://www.bhphotovideo.com.  They are the current biggie for Professional  supplies in any of the above mentioned fields Audio, Video, Photography and more… Other than B&H, the manufacturers Web sites will be a good place for more information.  For Photographers wanting to know more about camera support, tripods, monopods, maco light support, pano clamps and supports, then you need to see the catalog from Really Right Stuff, a store in California which ships direct.  http://www.reallyrightstuff.com/

That wraps it for Thursday May 6, 2010.  “Galcalia” , Student.

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