DUE DATES
Theory vs Law Poster Fri. Feb. 17th
InDesign Projects I Fri. Feb. 24th
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Set Up Postcard
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Create Magazine Call-Out
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Create Retro Text Effect
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Apply A Decorative Drop Cap
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Make a Personalized Thank You Card
Year 3 Horse Logo Fri. Mar. 3rd
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InDesign Projects II Wed. Mar. 1st
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Interactive Resume
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Business Card
InDesign Project III Thur. Mar. 9th
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Newsletter / Magazine
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Capstone Apr. 4th Project Due Fri. Apr. 7th
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Comic Characters TBA
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Character Design
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Character Families
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Comic Book Cover & Panels TBA
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Print & Graphics Contest(s) Mon. Apr. 24th
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Poster, T-Shirt or Package Design
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Software Of Choice Project TBA​
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Disgusting Food Project (Final) TBA
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Branding & Marketing
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Portfolio Update TBA
Last Certification Test Day Mon. May 8th
Final Exams May 22nd - 25th
ONGOING FOR YEARS TWO - THREE:
Ask questions. Print things. Assemble. Get feedback. Check in with yourself
and your partner(s). Use your class time wisely. Make those connections to any outside people who can help.
​Adobe Certification Pre-Test & Training
Training lab on Wednesday From 2pm - 3pm.
Score 900 or better on two testing mode trainings and you can then choose a day to take your certification test
NATIONAL DESIGN CONTESTS
Pick One of the Three to Enter & work on. Due Mon. April 24th
Week Eleven
Monday - Friday March 27th - 31st
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What digital portions need to be worked on and printed here?
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What will your table look like?
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What about your portfolio?
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What are you wearing on Capstone Night (Tech High Shirts or Casual Professional Attire suggested
Print Early!
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Grading Rubric For years 2 - 3
10 Points Total For Production And Capstone Presentations
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1 pt Pitched the Idea / Cohesive Proposal
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1 pt Pre-Production Work (Sketches – Illustrations – Thumbnails)
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3 pts Completed Artwork As your presentation called for
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2 pts Presentation (What your space looks like, is designed like, how you interact with people, how your product / game / skillset is presented
to any visitors.)
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1 pt Photo or Video Of Your Set-Up / People Interacting With You
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1 pt A link to your Portfolio is present during Capstone. (QR Code.
Laptop running your website. Physical artwork in a portfolio)
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1 pt All work is uploaded to Focus in the format asked for.
All Capstone related work should be uploaded to Focus by Friday, April 7th
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Wednesdays from 2pm - 3pm is testing prep and practice
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Week Twelve
Monday - April 3rd
Capstone Night is tomorrow from 6pm - 8pm.
What is your booth looking like?
Portfolios? QR Code? Physical? Laptops? projected?
All Make-Up or Rescheduled Capstone Presentations should be completed by Friday, April 7th to receive credit
All Capstone related work should be uploaded to Focus by Friday, April 7th
Tuesday - April 4th
Capstone Night. 6pm - 8pm.
All Make-Up or Rescheduled Capstone Presentations should be completed by Friday, April 7th to receive credit
All Capstone related work should be uploaded to Focus by Friday, April 7th.
Wednesday April 5th - Friday April 7th
Assemble all of your work as suggested and upload to Focus.
All Capstone related work should be uploaded to Focus by Friday, April 7th
All Students
Create an 8 1/2" x 11" Project Identification table card using the template example found on the Capstone Information Page For Details.
Use this format, this template, this font, this logo. All of it is located on the Capstone Information Page. Make sure it's visible on Captone night.
Certification Testing last day is May 8th!
In April & May, these dates Are Not available:
April 4 , April 10, April 28 May 3, 4, 5
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See Mr. Juul to schedule your test date.
Week Seven (Hurricane)
Week Nine
Week Twelve
Week Thirteen
Week Fourteen
Week Fifteen - Seventeen
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
To Access Adobe From Home
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Go to www.adobe.com
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Sign-in in the upper right corner using your r2.d2 and password.
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Choose SCHOOL ACCOUNT
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Now, choose Creative Cloud to Download. This will put the links to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign on your desktop. If you only need one of these or already have one or two installed, look for the individual software you need and download that.
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Follow directions once downloaded.
We have a Lexmark Laser Printer (C792) which is ID'd as:
ET0021B7F99C6A
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After you press print, a dialogue box will pop up on your screen.
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Be sure the class printer is selected ( ET0021B7F99C6A )
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Check the orientation of your paper is correct (Portrait or Landscape)
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Scroll down a bit and check the SCALE TO FIT MEDIA box.
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Press print
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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
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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. In class, turn in work using the class InBox. Final Project folders will be numbered and titled. Make-Up work turned in past the due date will not be able to be uploaded in Focus. Use the class In Boxes
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Grades will be entered within 1 or 2 weeks of turning in your project. Some projects will take one or two days for you to complete, some will take several weeks. Please be patient as grading is completed. Make-Up work or late work is graded at the discretion of the instructor.
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Work turned in late will receive one letter grade lower each day it is late. If it's more than 3 days late without instructor approval, absence, excused absence or extenuating circumstance, not turning in even one project can have a negative effect on your grade. Due Dates are very important in our industry and modeled in our class.
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Saving 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.
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.AI files are Adobe Illustrator native
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