PPD is cool...

What is  PPD session ? 

Last week we attended the PPD group workshop.  

The aim of a PPD session is to allow students to become more familiar with methods for projects evaluation adopted by tutors in our college. We all know it isn't an easy task that of   evaluating a graphic design work, as it requires a wide range of skills and knowledges that allows tutors to be objective. To start with, we were provided with a "contents sheet", listing the undergraduates marking criteria. This document is referential to both students and tutors.

During the first part of  this group activity we tried to grasp the essence of the university evaluation criteria and we discussed upon each of  the listed sections for about ten minutes.

The second part of the session was guided by two colleagues from the second year of college.  

It was a good occasion to take a look to both final pieces and notebooks, from these young designers and to ask few questions about our course in a confidential environment .

The morning  activity ended with a  task that required students to mark some of the final projects from the previous academic year. This task was to me quite a difficult one, because it

is always complicated to judge somebody's work and it is even harder to share yor opinion with others whose opinions maybe quite differents from yours.

I found that the exercise was very helpful and quite far from the idea of college I had in my mind.  To take the tutors place it can help us to understand couple of thing about our approach to projects, especially when after the session the tutor provids you with the real marks the students got for the work. 

What did make this session so good ?  

In the session all we were required to do, was to look at the marking criteria, from a different 

prospective....    what I loved about the session was the " shift in consciousness...." 
something so simple ... 

something to teach ..not only to designers ... 

 for you... <<