VisCom Skills
- DRAFT OF VisCom Skills 1/11/2005
- Teaching and Learning Foundations
- Discover your own Multiple Intelligence learning style
- Read about Howard Gardner's research
- http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
- Take a Multiple Intelligence quiz and post results
to your Blog
- http://www.careerccc.org/products/cp_99_e/section1/quiz.cfm
- Learn through interactive arts exercises
- Investigate Diane and Eric Jensen's brain research
- http://www.jlcbrain.com/main.html
- Blog your own list of 10 rhyming lines for better
memory
- Read the Memorizing Techniques article
- http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Mind_Matters/lane56.htm
- Investigate Robert Fritz's Path of Least Resistance creation
theory
- http://www.robertfritz.com/
- Use reflective, analytical, procedural writing in your
Blog
- Blog self evaluation regularly
- Use writing class writing standards
- http://chs.osd.wednet.edu/academics/departments/artstech/comtech/evaluation/fwritingrubric
- Read and blog your personal reflection on the meaning
of this quote: "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,
and writing an exact man." - Francis Bacon
- Read this article and blog response: "Re-Energize
Your Brain" by Kevin Eikenberry
- http://ezinearticles.com/Re-Energize-Your-Brain&id=33707
- Develop understanding through class discussion
- Participate in class discussion regularly
- Blog regularly about class discussions
- Develop skills and understanding through small group activities
- Participate in group activities
- Blog reflective writing about group activities
- Project Management Foundations
- Investigate Total Quality Learning process in school and
business
- http://www.langfordlearning.com
- Investigate Learning Mastery model in our classroom
- http://turnbows.net/~sleduc/lm
- Investigate David Allen's The Getting Things Done Natural
Planning Model
- http://www.davidco.com/
- http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-getting-things-done/
- Blog the five steps of the Natural Planning Model
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- 1. Defining purpose and principles
- 2. Outcome visioning
- 3. Brainstorming
- 4. Organizing
- 5. Identifying next actions
- Visual Communications Foundations
- Identify the names of the eight type of Thinking Maps
and their uses
- http://chs.osd.wednet.edu/inStyleion/technology/tm
- Bridge Map
- Multi-Flow Map
- Double Bubble Map
- Tree Map
- Brace Map
- Flow Map
- Bubble Map
- Circle Map
- View Edward Tufte's Visual Communications examples
- http://www.edwardtufte.com
- Identify Standards for all areas of study
- Visit the Web Consortium
- Review Adobe Photoshop
- http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/overview.html
- Review Adobe Illustrator
- http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/overview.html
- Photogrfaphy
- Professional Photographers of America
- Digital Photography Standards and Practices Project
- http://www.digitalphotographystandards.com
- Writing
- http://chs.osd.wednet.edu/academics/departments/artstech/comtech/evaluation/writingrubric
- Create a Mind Map about a logo for yourself
- Include elements of personal life
- Include samples of media designs or logos you enjoy
- Learn about Web Publishing
- Learn Web Standards
- Visit the Web Consortium
- Write HTML
- Read Introduction to HTML
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
- Understand HTML Elements
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_elements.asp
- Use Basic HTML Tags
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_primary.asp
- Understand HTML Text Formaftting
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_formatting.asp
- Understand HTML Character Entities
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_entities.asp
- Use HTML Links
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
- Do not use HTML Frames
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_frames.asp
- Use HTML Tables
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp
- Use HTML Lists
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_lists.asp
- Understand HTML Forms and Input
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
- Use HTML Images
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp
- Do not use HTML Backgrounds
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_backgrounds.asp
- Understand HTML Colors
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp
- Understand HTML Color Values
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colorsfull.asp
- Understand HTML Color Names
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp
- Review HTML 4.01 Quick List
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quick.asp
- Do not use HTML Layout with tables
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_layout.asp
- Do not use deprecated HTML Fonts tag
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_fonts.asp
- Understand why to use HTML 4.0
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_whyusehtml4.asp
- Use HTML Style tag
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_styles.asp
- Use the HTML Head tag
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_head.asp
- Use HTML Meta tags
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_meta.asp
- Use HTML Uniform Resource Locators (URL's)
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_url.asp
- Understand fHTML Scripts tags
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_scripts.asp
- Understand HTML 4.0 Standard Attributes
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_standardattributes.asp
- Understand HTML 4.0 Event Attributes
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_eventattributes.asp
- Understand HTML URL-encoding Reference
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_urlencode.asp
- Understand HTML Webserver details
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_webserver.asp
- Take HTML Quiz
- http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_quiz.asp
- Post quiz results in GenTECH Blog
- Write XHTML
- Validate XHTML
- Style with CSS
- Validate CSS
- http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator
- Create basicf portfolio with XHTML
- Use the html tag
- Use head tag
- Use meta tag
- Use title tag
- Use link tag
- Use script tag
- Use body tag
- Use headers or headlines tags
- Use paragraph tag
- Use list tags
- Use line item
- Create a link
- Place images
- Create custom classes
- Use span to apply CSS
- Use division tag
- Style basic portfolio with CSS
- http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
- Style background
- Style border
- Use classification
- Use dimension
- Style font
- Style list
- Use margin
- Style an outline
- Use padding
- Use position
- Style tables
- Style text
- Use pseudo-classes
- Use pseudo-elements
- Web Graphics
- Blog about differences between Bitmap vs. Vector Graphics
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/aboutgraphics/a/bitmapvector.htm
- Create a Logo in Illustrator
- Create with graphical sense
- Save as favicon for web site
- Design a Business Card
- Include:
- Digital student photo
- Graphic Logo
- One font type
- Student name
- Learning style(s)
- Parent / guardian name
- Parent / guardian email address
- Parent / guardian phone number
- History of Media
- Write a 500 word report on one of the Visual Communications
themes below:
- Identify significant discoveries, developments,
and inventions in the history of media.
- Describe the chronology of the development and popularization
of media.
- Document the significance of early documentary media
and its social, political, and scientific impact.
- Identify the historically important figures and
sponsoring individuals and agencies.
- Distinguish between various movements, styles, and
trends in the history of media.
- Identify the work of major arts of the 19th and
20th centuries.
- Build Portfolio Template
- Look and Feel
- Color Combination
- Self Portrait
- Take a digital self portrait in the studio
- Save a copy in your account on the Student Servfer
- Learning about Desktop Publishing (DTP) Basics
- Read Principles of Design (About.com)
- http://desktoppub.about.com/od/designprinciples/l/aa_pod1.htm
- Blog the Principles of Design
- Balance
- Proximity / Unity
- Alignment
- Repetition / Consistency
- Contrast
- White Space
- Blog how would improve the graphic in assignment
two
- http://desktoppub.about.com/od/designprinciples/l/aa_podtest.htm
- Read and blog define the elements of Balance
- http://desktoppub.about.com/od/designprinciples/l/aa_balance.htm
- symmetrical
- asymmetrical
- radial
- Look for and blog about examples of balanced symmetry
- How many examples of perfect or near perfect symmetry
can you find
- How is the symmetry achieved — is it through mirror
images, identical placement, or with pieces that are very similar
in look and feel
- Try these examples of symmetry
- Look for sections of symmetrical design within larger
layouts such as a graphic, a logo.
- Fold a few pieces in half vertically and horfizontally
to look for symmetrical balance.
- Define Color Theory
- Learn Digital Image Manipulation (Photoshop)
- Abode Photoshop Basics Outline
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps5out.htm
- Reset Photoshop Tools Settings
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/photoshop/ht/trashprefs.htm
- Lesson 1: Navigating the Workspace
- Work with The Menu Bar
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501a.htm
- Understand The Status Bar
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501b.htm
- Work with The Toolbox
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501c.htm
- Work with The Palettes
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501d.htm
- Review Lesson 1
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501rev.htm
- Take Lesson 1 Quiz
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps501quiz1.htm
- Lesson 2: Working with Docufments
- Navigator Palette and Hand Tool
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502a.htm
- New View & Duplicate
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502b.htm
- Image Size & Resolution
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502c.htm
- Image Size Dialog Box
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502d.htm
- Image Size Exercise for Version 6.x
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502x6.htm
- Canvas Size
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502e.htm
- Crop Tool
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502f.htm
- Cropping Practice
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502fx5.htm
- Crop Tool Practice for Version 6 only
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502fx6.htm
- History Palette
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502g.htm
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- Saving Images
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502h.htm
- Review Lesson 2
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502rev.htm
- Lesson 2 Assignment
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps502work.htm
- Lesson 3: Image Modes & Color Selection
- Color Primer
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps503a.htm
- Define in Blog:
- RGB
- CMYK
- Out of Gamut
- Web Safe Palette
- Hexadecimal Color
- The Color Picker
- http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps503b.htm
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- Learn Basics Photo Techniques
- Camera Operations
- Understand Camera Lenses Operations
- Know how to Focus a Lens
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpfocussing.htm
- Understand Lens Aperture Function
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpaperture.htm
- Know Types of Lenses
- Know Wide Angle
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpwideangle.htm
- Know Telephoto
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bptelephoto.htm
- Understand Exposure
- Understand how to measure exposure
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpexposuremet.htm
- Understand how to use manual exposure
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpmanualexp.htm
- Understand how to use auto exposure
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpautoexp.htm
- Understand programmed exposure
- http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_progra.htm
- Understand aperture priority
- http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_aperp.htm
- Understand shutter priority
- http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_shutp.htm
- Understand Camera Operations
- Can load film into camera
- Can use light meter
- Can advance film
- Can take picture
- Understand shutterspeed
- http://photography.about.com/od/basics/a/bpshutterspeed.htm
- Understand film speed
- Understand ISO and ASA film rating
- Pin Hole Cameras
- Learn Advanced Photo Techniques
- Use composition rules in image creation
- Use contrast filters in the darkroom
- Use dodging and burning techniques
- Use bracketing
- Document all settings from camera and darkroom
- Understand programmed exposure
- http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_progra.htm
- Understand aperture priority
- http://photography.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_aperp.htm
- Understand shutter priority
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