What if your students were to go on a drawing adventure, documenting the journey with GoogleMaps? What if they could create an online, interactive portfolio using Flickr that they could share, not only with their classmates, but also with the rest of the world? What if you could facilitate meaningful critique of your students' work using VoiceThreads? We will combine traditional studio activities with easy to use Web tools on an expedition that encourages ideation, interaction and collaboration in the making and teaching of art and design.
During this class, students will learn the basic principles of electronic portfolio (or e-portfolio) development for art education professionals.
Online portfolios can be very useful for art educators to document professional progress over time, develop and demonstrate skills in assessment and reflection, and to to provide evidence of teaching competencies for initial, professional, and master licensure.
This class introduces students to an overview of the interactive world by immersing them in current technologies and trends. Aspects of design, development and marketing converge to illustrate the workflow process of interactive projects.
For a century, poster art has been used effectively for commerce, propaganda, protest, image, and personal expression. This class will focus on two particularly vibrant and expressive applications of this medium: The concert poster and the theatre poster.
This class introduces individuals with little or no design background to the graphic design practice. Students work both on and off the computer to complete assignments that explore basic 2D communication principles integrating color, shape, texture, typography, and photography to build a visual language.
It is often assumed that only professional artists and illustrators can draw well. However, if concerns about artistic quality are eliminated, drawing or sketching can become a powerful communication tool. For example, a quick sketch may more effectively communicate complicated ideas than a one-thousand word document. During this class, students will learn the importance of becoming a visual thinker and how to create an effective quick sketch. In this class students will explore the many creative facets of the quick sketch and learn to develop an individualized style and method.
Have you ever used a website or app that makes it hard to do what you want? This class explores the UX Design process and leverages it to bridge the gap between functionality and aesthetics, creating a better experience for your users.
In this class, students will be introduced to designing for web and screen. This includes web-specific design fundamentals, best practices, and review of current web design trends.
From ideation to client review, students will be guided through each step of the design process including ways to find inspiration, wireframing, using design tools, and preparing a design for client review. Students will complete a final web design project and continue building and refining their web portfolio.
In this class, students learn how to apply style to HTML using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Students will create well crafted web pages using various CSS selectors and properties, including fonts, colors, divs and spans, layout, and positioning.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer; students are assumed to have a strong fluency with HTML.
This class introduces the fundamentals language the web: HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Students explore how the web works, tags, links, images, lists, tables, forms, web standards (old, new, and evolving), directory structure, wireframing, web development best practices, and lay the foundation for further web development in the next class, Web Development Basics: CSS.
This five week online class is a blend of tutorials, readings, development projects, and online discussion. The class is geared toward the beginning to intermediate web developer or designer.
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