Acid Session 7

The 7th session of the Sony Acid Unit this semester is about to commence! ..in exactly 3...2...1...0...-1...-2...-3 ...NOW!

Today's session was a very worktime-oriented one, with a short continued lesson from the previous session on mastering with Audacity, and the second Permit Test attempt at the end of the session. The majority of the lab time was used for the students to work on their BTW and Showcase projects.

Chris, starting the day off with the Mastering with Audacity lesson, covered topics such as rendering, normalization, and compression--and shortly following the lesson, the students were given a small challenge which allowed them to directly apply the terms and skills they were just introduced to during the Mastering lesson.

After the lesson, challenge, and first break, the students got right to work, either working on their BTWs or their showcase projects. The students were making great progress on their Acid BTW projects, however, when it came to the showcase projects, a lot of them were far behind and needed ideas on what type of project they wanted to create with this year's showcase theme of "Fun with Numbers." So a lot of the questions and session time ended up revolving much around the showcase projects, seeing as how mostly everyone was in pretty good shape with their BTW progress; they were either just about finished, finishing up, or already done with them.

Finally, with about half an hour remaining in the session, the students began taking their second attempt at the Acid Permit Test and the little time they had after they completed the permit test was used as additional worktime for BTW and Showcase projects.

Overall it was a pretty productive session.