Computer Tech 1 - Intro to Design and Media Arts :: Business and Information Technology

Computer Tech 1 - Intro to Design and Media Arts

This class is introductory and year long. Students learn to design, develop, and complete an assortment of documents and graphics both for print and web/digital interfaces. Utilizes: InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop software*.

"No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design." Sherlock Holmes

Week 1	Introduction – PowerPoint on Desktop Publishing Introduce Photoshop – workspace Saving\Organize\file format Layers in Photoshop – Hot Air Balloon History palette
Week 2	Skill Review – Layers Elements of Design (Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity) Add and delete layers Add a selection from one image to another Organize layers
Week 3	Understand backgrounds Selection tools Opacity/text Layer groups Layers – Outlaw Fraud/Java Jive
Week 4	The camera Introduce the lasso tool Push Pin assignment Collage project (9 pictures, theme, text) Collage
Week 5	Collage work
Week 6	Collage work Photoshop - selection tools Understanding the Marquee tool Color Vignettes
Week 7	Color Picker Borders Grayscale Blending Logos
Week 8	Text - type and how its created - fonts Drop shadow/ Styles Assignment - Business Card Business Card
Week 9	Business Card Layer masks Adjustment and clipping
Week 10	Skill Review - Bed and Breakfast Poster
Week 11	Filters – Play Poster
Week 12	Introduce InDesign Workspace/Document views/Navigation Working with text Format text/ paragraphs Styles
Week 13	Formatting - Hanging indents Spelling Skill Review – working with text
Week 14	Setting up a document/master page Apply master page to document pages thread text New Sections/ text wrap Skill Review – Setting up a document
Week 15	Skill Review continued Working with frames Align and distribute objects Graphic frames and text frames
Week 16	Color/objects/stacking Graphics and resizing Introduce Final - One page newsletter (design and content) Newsletter Final work
Week 17	Newsletter Final work
Week 18 Finals Week	Newsletter - Final Due

t. But the truly wise person is color blind. "Albert Schweitzer

Spring Semester 2009-10

Week 1 1/4-1/8	Hand back final// Introduce Illustrator Create a new document, Navigation, Objects/shapes/fill/stroke Smart guides, Duplicate/transform/scale/rotate Reflect tool, Direct selections Anchor points, Paths
Week 2 1/11-1/15	Skill Review – Getting started - Flag Project - Iris Vision Design Creating Text and gradients/Format and create text – vertical Text in an object/Text on a path/Move text on a path Color and gradients – add to swatches panel/Gradient to Text
Week 3 1/19-1/22	Drop shadows and styles/Skill Review - Logo Discuss Friday Design/Skill Review - Logo - continued/Project Builder – Desert Oasis/Loons Balloons Create a company label using Creating Text and Gradients Company label continued
Week 4 1/25-1/30	Company label continued Company label discussion Drawing lines/anchor points Curved lines Illustration elements
Week 5 2/1-2/2	Drawing and composing an illustration/Straight and curved lines Elements of an illustration/Anchor points/Pen tool Scanning an image/Attributes/Assemble the illustration/Artistic effects Live Trace/Paint bucket tool Landscape design
Week 6 2/8-2/12	Skill Review – Monty THS Map
President's Week
Week 7 2/22 - 2/26	Transform/distorting objects Offset and outline paths Create compound paths Paths continued Paths continued
Week 8 3/1-3/5	Clipping masks Transform objects FBLA Name Tag FBLA Name Tag Self Portrait
Week 9 3/8-3/12	Self Portrait Self Portrait
Week 10 3/15-3/19	Create and modify layers/Clipping set Working with layered art Sublayers/Gary Garlic Head Mid Final Portrait Assessment/Discuss Final
Week 11 3/22 -3/26	Patterns and brushes Create a pattern/repeat pattern Brushes/scatter brushes Skill Review Skill Review continued
Week 12 3/29 -4/2	Create 4 brushes Filters Gradient meshes Envelopes and blends Create Blends - 4 with labels
Spring Break
Week 13 4/12-4/16	Skills Review – Filters Glossy button/iTunes Logo Itunes Logo Flower Petal
Week 14 4/19-4/23	STAR Testing Advertisement Project
Week 15 4/26-4/30	Advertisement Project
Week 16 5/3-5/7	Advertisement Project Show offs Show offs Catch up
Week 17 5/10-5/14	Transparency/ live color/graphic styles Color picker/Graphic styles Inner glow and outer glow Skill Review - Transparency, Live Color, Effects and Graphic Styles
Week 18 5/18-5/21	Skill Review finish Create a new Class poster using Contrast, alignment, emphasize, repetition
Week 19 5/24-5/28	Create a new Class poster using Contrast, alignment, emphasize, repetition
Week 20 6/1-6/4	Final - Poster Collage of best five activities
Finals week 6/7	Final – Poster Collage of best five activities - Due
* Subject to change based on class considerations and just-in-time evaluations