18 Credit Hours?

I have 18 credit hours live and everything still seems great. Lets take a look at what this 18 hours is composed of. ART 114 Self-paced course until February 2nd, at which time there will be a weekly unit due, this involves discussion boards and quizzes. Blackboard @ Gaston ART 288 DH This course meets […]

Grainy, Blurry, Dark Night Photos

This is what my Nikon D60 will do in the dark with very little light (one tiny outdoor bulb), while being handheld. This is ISO-1600 @ F/4.8 for 1/6 sec @ 68mm (72mm in 135 equiv). There was no flash or anything in use for this shot. Between Active D-Lighting, Active Noise Reduction and the […]

Faces of Academia

All of my instructors have images of themselves available online this semester. ART 114 Art History 1 Mr. Richard Gilbert ART 288DH Studio – Digital Photography Mr. Michael K. Hensdill BIO 155 Nutrition Mrs. Paula H. Dedmon CSC 253 Advanced C# Programming Mr. Alberto Botero PSYC 310 Theories of Personality Dr. Vivian Dzokoto PSYC 421 […]

Academic Communication Issues?

OK, so, everybody remember that academic schedule I sent out last week? Well… apparently my instructors are not obeying those dates. This course, ART-114, is obviously and clearly set to start on February 2, 2009. I was refreshing my Nutrition course in Blackboard, and came across “Art History Survey 1” being active. I clicked  into […]

New Grading System

For all of my college years I became familiar with the standard 10-point grading scale, 90 – 100 = A, 80-89=B, 70-79 = C, etc, but now at Fayetteville State University, I have to get adjusted to a new grading system. The FSU system is a little more difficult to get an A in. I […]

Status Sucks

Today I was thinking about my Status web page and realize that it and its underlying system sucks. This morning I just wanted to make the thing not show a status for my “Message” area and just be blank for a while until I got around to feeling motivated to do something (its the weekend, […]

PSYC 421 Research Project

The Spring 2009 semester is just a few days old and already I have had to select a topic for a research project in Cognitive Psychology. Not having had a lot of interaction with psychology curriculum in a while, so I had difficulty selecting a topic from the list. Originally I selected “Gender differences in […]

My Actual Course Schedule

For Chris, since he asked… this is my schedule (not just a course list). January 8, 2009 – May 8, 2009 Fayetteville State University PSYC 310 Theories of Personality Vivian Dzokoto Online PSYC 421 Cognitive Psychology James Hogan Online   January 12, 2009 – May 12, 2009 Gaston College ART 288 DH Digital Photography Studio […]