Sunday, September 03, 2006

Fronter

"For every person who wants to teach there are approxi-
mately thirty people who don't want to learn much."
-W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

Between me and you, I just began to going to school! After more then I-don't-know how many years of running away from whatever schools (except ISTA, the International School of Theater Anthropology whose concept of "school" is a horse of total different color) it feels weird to be among "students" as one of them (or to be one us as matter of fact!) and be seated in a chair in front of a "teacher" who is supposed to "teach" you.
Anyways, one cool think I have encountered in the school is a website, Fronter: an "educational panel." It is an online educational device where the students can interactively communicate with the school and the teacher as well as their fellow students. With Fronter one can stay in touch with one’s studies 24-7 from where-fucking-ever there is an Internet connection (I mean that is if you don’t live in China or Iran and your government have decided to filter Fronter as some sort of pornographic website!) Yes, although its look awfully ugly, Fronter is a very useful tool especially for the school I go to: the Multimedia Design School.
One thin you can do with Fronter is to deliver your “home works” on-line. Everyone has their own folders to put the shit they make in it, so the teachers can delete them without opening them and give you a damn grade so that you would get out of the school quickly and they don’t have to see your fucking face more than the usual two years of the study—unless you are exceptionally good looking. I was checking out the Fronter last night and saw that many of the students have just thrown their hand-ins all over the place instead of uploading them in their own personal folders; just like the five-year-old kids who on the first day at school could not find the toilet and end up shitting in the teachers’ closet!

2 Comments:

Anonymous Elín said...

Well you must admit, Fronter is a very very complicated program that you just cant expext people to figure out ..... much like english it seems...

7:22 PM 
Anonymous Michael Jensen said...

I hope school can help you to move on in your life. Maybe you can forget your bitterness and hate for a while.

10:40 AM 

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