Finals week a new perspective- Finale

Finals are over and so is this project, it was great fun to see the different perspectives on finals week. This definitely made me evaluate my own approaches towards preparing for exams. The last blog entry includes students graduating on Saturday (05.12.2012) talking about their final finals and the future after Slippery Rock University.
 The graduates are Michael Springer, 24, Communications Major, Kyle McCoy, 22, Music Major and Isaac Fisher, 23, Biology Major.
Michael Springer graduates with Information Technology Major and Computer Science Minor. He feels relieved to be finished with university and to go into the “real” world. Springer has already been hired by a company in Pittsburgh as a web developer. The advice he gave to future communication graduates is to start looking for jobs straight away not to wait until they graduate because this shows that they are serious about their future career.
Kyle McCoy graduates with a Music Performance Major, specializing in percussion. He didn’t have finals he just had play in a lot of ensembles which gave him an opportunity to play a lot of different genres. McCoy’s plans after graduation include going to graduate school in Louisville, Ky, to do Masters in Music with emphasis on percussion. He advised future music graduates not to fall behind but to study systematically, also not to get involved in gossip but to focus on the music.
Isaac Fischer graduates with a Biology Major. He had seven finals, so it definitely feels good to be done with them. Fischer is currently looking for a job in a lab and the year after that he plans to go to graduate school. His advice to the future biology graduates is not to let the head or anyone else from the department to get them and to make sure they stay on the top of the material because if they get behind is hard to catch up.
These blog projects have been a real pleasure; they gave me an opportunity to learn how to make videos, photo slideshows, google maps and much more. I hope that all followers enjoyed it because I did.


 

Finals week- a new perspective Part 2

Finals are one day away and as a second part of my project I choose to film professors from different departments talking about the exam period.
The professors we have speaking this week are Dr. George Mihalik, professor at the safety management department, Ms. Stacey Steele, professor at the music department and Dr. Li Pu, professor at the communication department.
 The ways different departments evaluate their students is not the same but they all try and give opportunity to the students to be evaluated in a variety of ways. The exam format which Mihalik provides to the students includes multiple choice questions, true or false questions, matching questions and short answer questions. This way he tries to provide the students with a variety of ways to be successful. He also mentioned that it is important the students to study during the whole 15 weeks not only the week before the exams.
Steele is teaching two classes, elementary school music and music education for the diverse learner. For elementary school music she examines the students with a written exam paper but those students also have a performance exam which is lasts 30 minutes. Music education for the diverse learner class is being examined with a written final. She advised the students not to get behind because this way it will be overwhelming for them during the exams.
Dr. Li Pu teaches four classes, two courses of public speaking, last section of broadcast journalism, and last section of TV field production. For public speaking she uses multiple choice questions, for broadcast journalism and TV field production she grades the students based on final projects covering the material they have been thought during the term. In her view the tests are not too hard as far as the chapters the exams are based on are reviewed and also the power point presentations she gave during classes.


Exams start tomorrow (05.08), I hope the tips from the professors have been useful and everyone will get As. At the end of this week we are meeting students about to graduate who are going to talk about how does it feel to have your final finals and what is it like to have this chapter of your life finished.

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