What Is Due In Week 1...
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Live Students - Any necessary paperwork signed parent or guardians
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Class Questionnaire by Friday
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Your Semester
Monday August 24th
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Acclimation
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School Paperwork & Powerpoint - New Procedures
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Hello's and About You's
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Finding Your Way Around
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Losing It Over Something Small... Wait For It...
Tuesday August 25th
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Class... first, take this learning style profile. What did your profile your learning style is?
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Second, open this About You Questionnaire and answer these questions with though and honestly.
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Live Students - New student discussion & introductions - Circle at 8:15am (Blocks 1 - 2) 11am (Blocks 4 - 5) and 1:15pm (Blocks 6 - 7)
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Live students, sit in a giant circle. We'll be introducing ourselves. Please, tell us your name, How You Wound Up Here, What You Like To Do in Your Spare Time, What You Would Like To Be When You grow Up, One Thing You Would Like Us To Know About You
Wednesday August 26th
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If you missed it yesterday... take this learning style profile.
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Second, open and finish this About You Questionnaire and answer these questions with though and honestly. Upload to Focus.
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Design your semester with this page. What five projects or areas of study you like would you want to learn about or choose?
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Last, check out this page on What Graphic Design Is
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Class discussion with new students only.
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PRESENTATION: About Graphic Design & Our Class
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Two Sketches For Today. Please Date these: Sketch someone in class. Sketch a squid (Don't Look Online. Draw From Memory!)
Thursday August 27th
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If you missed it yesterday... take this learning style profile.
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Finishing your About You Questionnaire and turning it in / uploading to Focus.
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Last, design your your semester with this page. If you could design five projects, what would you design?
Deep Dive Into What Graphic Design Is:
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Two Links From Wednesday Presentaion
CHALLENGE: How Much Do Graphic Designers Earn in Florida?
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Two Sketches For Today. Please Date these: Sketch a cobra snake. Sketch a bowl of popcorn (Don't Look Online for either. Draw From Memory!)
Friday August 28th
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You've uploaded your About You Questionnaire to Focus?
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You've uploaded your My Semester to Focus?
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Adobe Photoshop Demonstration
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Friday Artist Profile
Usually Done At The End of Class On Fridays.
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Artist Profile - Glen Keane - Disney Animator
Week One
Goals and Scales For Commercial & Digital Arts
WIX.com is a simple web page creator that lets you look at thousands of website templates and then save one and edit it. Remove their pictures, put in yours. Remove their text, put in yours. Changing color schemes, etc.. The best portfolio pages have a simple landing (or Splash) page, and then links to your gallery.
Design an online portfolio for yourself. Include your artwork you've designed this semester, year or so far during your time in class. Your name should figure prominently into the design.
Pages should include:
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Index Page - Example Page - About You Page - Contact Page
*Pictures for upload must be saved JPEG, BMP, PNG or TIFF file formats.
RESOURCES
Printing Your Files
We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C790):
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After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up.
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Be sure the Lexmark C790 Printer is selected.
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Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)
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Be sure to scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.
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Print to the Lexmark (Copy 2) printer
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Please DO NOT Print: Work From Other Classes, Memes you Just Made And Think Are Funny But Are Not, Pages of Solid Colors, Work that has nothing to do with our class.
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You can lose your printing privileges is this happens
Turning In Your Assignments
Save And Upload To Focus
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All work will be turned in using FOCUS. I will be able to grade your work, count your work and give feedback on your work using Focus.
Saving Photoshop Files
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.PSD files preserve your layers, allowing you to come back and work on files with all your work preserved.
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.JPEG files are compressed for display online. 300 resolution or better. Anything below is too blurry.
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.PNG files are high quality and create a transparent background.
We have a class network to save your class work:
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There will eventually be a shortcut on your desktop called Block 1-2, or Block 4-5, etc. that allows you to keep work in class that you are working on. This file contains a folder for your class work. It is where you can keep your design work in class or move things into from your One Drive or your Flash Drive if you do work at home.