Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Guest Speakers from MPTC

Joe Sibiliski displays some of his work.











On Friday, February 21st, 2 sets of Informational Technology experts from MPTC spoke to Pathways' students. 

The first pair was Tom Ward and Joe Sibiliski who are both animators. Both hold the official title "Interactive Media Design Instructor." They shared previous projects they helped come to life, such as popular commercials and even movies like Fern Gully. One impactful comment made by Tom is that "people's skills are more important than their art." It always helps to hear people in the field repeat what Pathways' coaches say.


Dom Garafalo describes workplace conditions at an IT firm.















The second panel of speakers included Tammy Freund (web developer instructor), Dominic Garofalo (web developer instructor), and Joe Desiderio (technical support specialist instructor). Joe highlighted the difference between platforms and how that effects users. Tammy and Dom also showed the codes behind websites and how to get different scripts running on web pages.