The visual journal can be a place of exploration that is portable, economical and inter-disciplinary. Daily journal entries can include and are not limited to drawings, paintings, collages, digital renderings and photography, paper engineering, written observations, and more.
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.
Students will learn how to abstract functional strategies from nature to apply to the process of innovative design.
This project-oriented studio class will cover core biological principles, astound students with the wealth of design solutions available in nature, and provide numerous case studies of innovative designs inspired by natural models.
Overall, this class provides powerful metaphors and methods for looking to nature as model, mentor, and measure in our designs. / Open to students ages 18 and above.
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.
This class builds on the work done in the first Collaborative Workflows class with an extended collaborative project between another Interactive Design and Marketing class The instructor acts as the lead project manager while students assume various roles, commonly found in interactive departments and projects.
Sustainability is the common sense notion that long-term prosperity, social equity, and ecological health not only go together but also depend on one another. Making a sustainable way of life requires changes in the design of most everything.
Designers, brand leaders, and manufacturers can play a powerful role in effecting change on both local and global levels. Design roles shift when we view design as a tool or opportunity to enrich and add value to people's lives. Designers can use their communication skills and talents not only to create or sell products but to educate, engage, and inform society through design.
In this online class, students will learn the fundamentals of marketing and how it relates to the design and development process.
Students will connect digital marketing practices to the larger concepts of marketing and advertising. Interactive channels will open a new world of connecting with a target market. Marketing concepts of ROI, the marketing mix and business objectives will be blended with new ways of connecting with engaging target markets.
As popularized in the pages of magazines like Rolling Stone, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, the illustrated portrait provides a fresh new look at the strengths and flaws of people who shape popular culture, government, and everything inbetween.
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