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We Are Period 3

Garcia202 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:30:40 CDT

Upload your picture with your name to this page.

Assignment 1

Garcia202 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:30:16 CDT

1. Think about who you are -- where you come from, what enjoy doing now, what you want to be in the future. Are you shy, energetic, outgoing, friendly, athletic, creative, cerebral, messy, or organized.

2. Create a logo for yourself using CoolText. How can you choose a logo style, font (letter shape) and colors that represent who you are? By experimenting and becoming visually aware of how colors, lines and shapes communicate ideas.

3. Download your logo to the desktop when it is complete.

4. Photograph yourself. This is not serious. You can be as campy as you want, as long as the photo is appropriate for school. Only people in our class will be able to see the finished picture.

5. Transfer the photo to your computer add your cooltext name or one created using photoshop.

6. Send the file saved as a jpeg to the class computer using rendezvous.

We Are Period 1 We Are Period 2 We Are Period 3

The Syllabus

Garcia202 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:55:00 CDT

THIS SEMESTER’S THEME: VISUAL STORYTELLING
We will use pencils and computers to create artworks and develop our drawing and creative thinking skills. We will do a few projects with students around the world, including Rotoball 2008, a rotoscope animation. Working individually and as groups we will reinvent creation myths from around the world as short animations, graphic novels or live action animations. We will use Flash, Photoshop Elements, Photoshop7, CS3 and web tools. Technology changes and advances, however the basics of good design remain. For this reason, this class emphasizes the elements and principles of design.

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Beginning Computer Art 1 fulfills one semester of the Visual and Performing Arts graduation requirement and the F-G requirement for CSU and UC. Course goals and objectives reflect the California state standards in visual arts. The State standards are:
♦ Artistic Perception – Using art vocabulary to describe and respond to carefully viewed artworks.
♦ Creative Expression – Making art
♦ Historical/Cultural Context - Understanding art’s historical and cultural contributions.
♦ Aesthetic Valuing - Analyzing and making critical assessments about artworks.
♦ Connections, Relations & Application - Extending what students learn about an art form to other art forms, subject areas and careers.

We look at, make, read about, write about and discover art in real life around us.

TEXT USED IN THIS CLASS
Creating and Understanding Drawings Scholastic Arts Magazine
By Gene A. Mittler and James Howze

GRADING
Artwork in this class is made with both computers and traditional media such as pencil, pen and watercolors. Students will be expected to develop both drawing and computer skill. Assignments and grades are available online. Graded work may include: a variety of long-term assignments, reports, daily work/learning activities and oral/written quizzes.
Extra Credit possibilities
– Complete winter break activity, if all assignments have been turned in already.
– unused hall passes buy extra credit points.
– Perfect attendance bonus equal to 5% of the points you have already earned at the end of the semester.

Grading Scale:

98	A+	Exceptional effort and originality
92	A	Shows individuality and originality
90	A-	Excellent effort
88	B+	Logical and effective work
82	B	Logical complete work
80	B-	Logical effective work, but without finishing touches
78	C+	Adequately completed without preplanning
72	C	Adequately completed unoriginal assignment
70	C-	Adequately completed in a rushed manner
68	D+	Lack of pride in completed assignment
62	D	Completed with minimum effort
60	D-	Incomplete, rushed, unoriginal, poorly executed

Being tardy or absent affects grades. Students are responsible for making up missed work when they are absent. Students have 20 days to clear absences with the attendance office. Students may not make up work missed because of truancy.

Citizenship grades are based on district suggestions outlined in the Student/Parent Handbook. Higher citizenship grades are awarded for attending class regularly, arriving on time, bringing needed tools to class, and once in class being a positive influence, exercising self-control, participating, being friendly and courteous.

Tardies will negatively affect citizenship grades (see Student/Parent Handbook).

Appointments for parent/teacher conferences or extra help are available during first or seventh period.

SUPPLIES NEED BY STUDENTS

Image storage – either a 2-gig flash drive, or online file storage (accessible from school such as gmail account or photoshop.com/express)
Section in 3-ring binder for class handouts with lined and unlined paper.
Pencils and Black or Blue pen.

See also: Announcements | Assignments | Study Guides

Classroom

Garcia202 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:46:50 CDT

Welcome to Room 202's Digital Art Wiki...
This wiki is our central meeting place to plan and discuss assignments throughout the school year. Check back regularly to review an new announcements, review the syllabus, get tips from the study guides, and ask a question for other students or the instructor. Don't forget to check out the student spotlight of the week.

This semester...
We will be exploring Visual Storytelling this semester. The class is about art. The Elements and Principles of Design form the backbone of all our artworks. Technology is not the focus of this class. Having said that, we will use several different programs this semester. We will use PhotoShop CS3, Flash, Celtx, and web2.0 tools such as this wiki.

Students will be responsible for creating and editing several different pages of this wiki.

Your First Assignment...
Creating a logo using cooltex.com and uploading it with your picture to the "We Are" page for your class period.

Announcements	The Syllabus	Assignments
Student Spotlight	Study Guides	[add a new page and link to it here]

Assignments

Garcia202 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:42:55 CDT

Class Assignments

Assignment 1 -Create logo that represents who you are.

Individual Student Assignments

Have a question about the assignments? Ask it here.

Student	Task/Homework	Schedule/Deadline

Topics

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:43:42 CDT

Semester theme VISUAL STORYTELLING

Major units of study

All dates are approximate

Introduction to course

Sept. 2-12

How we learn
What we learn
Our Community Standards
Learning about class tools

Collaborative Projects

Sept. 14-Oct. 24

Pinwheels for Peace
Self-portrait
Rotoscope Animation

Mythology Research

and Scriptwriting

Oct. 27-Nov. 7

Web research
Context and character
Writing and pitching script treatments

Group FAQ

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:12:55 CDT

Post questions and answers to questions related to these topics.

Current computer assignment

Drawing assignments

Technology

Student Spotlight

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:09:34 CDT

Student Artwork of the Week

Name:
Class Period:
Why the artwork was chosen:

Send a shout-out!

[Use this section to say "way to go" to this week's student! Add words of congrats. Or, send them a message by going to their profile page...]

Nominate a classmate's artwork for recognition!

Enter their name here, and describe why their art should be recognized.

See also: Announcements | The Syllabus | Assignments | Study Guides

We Are Period 2

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:50:52 CDT

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We Are Period 1

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:50:04 CDT

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Study Guides

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:41:55 CDT

Elements of Design
Principles of Design

See also: Assignments | The Syllabus | Announcements

Principles of Design

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:34:22 CDT

Principle	Describe	Example
Contrast
Balance
Unity
Movement
Pattern
Emphasis
Repetition

Elements of Design

Garcia202 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:10:50 CDT

Element	Describe	Example
Line
Shape
Form
Texture
Color -- Hue
Color -- Value
Color -- Intensity

Digital Art Wiki BVHS - Recently Updated Pages

We Are Period 3

Assignment 1

The Syllabus

Classroom

Announcements

The Syllabus

Assignments

Student Spotlight

Study Guides

Assignments

Class Assignments

Individual Student Assignments

Topics

Semester theme VISUAL STORYTELLING

Major units of study

Introduction to course

Sept. 2-12

Collaborative Projects

Sept. 14-Oct. 24

Mythology Research

and Scriptwriting

Oct. 27-Nov. 7

Group FAQ

Post questions and answers to questions related to these topics.

Student Spotlight

Send a shout-out!

Nominate a classmate's artwork for recognition!

We Are Period 2

We Are Period 1

Study Guides

Principles of Design

Elements of Design

Announcements

News:

Updates: