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Denece came to the CIM program with a bachelor of arts in studio art from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She decided to further her education in the CIM program because it offered interactive media from the design side as well as the program side. “I decided to go back to school and chose JCCC because it encompassed all aspects of interactive media.” As interface designer on her CIM 270 project, she designed the interface and the interaction of the navigation as well as the look and feel of the site. “I liked that the project gave us some experience with working in the real world and having an outside client, working with deadlines and knowing it would be published.” What would she tell someone who is interested in the CIM program? “It is an excellent program but you have to be willing to put in the extra effort. It's not something you can just learn by going to class three hours a week. You have to learn by trial and error and do things on your own.”! Denece feels the extra effort has been worth it. “The program has given me more in-depth knowledge of how the Web works and how multimedia works – I’ve learned the parameters of designing for those technologies.” |
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Denece
will graduate from the CIM program this semester. And when she does,
she plans to specialize in the design side of interactive media.
“In the future, I see myself working for an advertising agency
doing multimedia and Web design.”