Y11 Product & Digital Design

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Product & digital design technologies brings together a range of learning areas such as creative design, science, engineering, business studies, digital media, computing, electronics, materials technologies and entrepreneurship in a project-based learning environment.

This course provides an opportunity for both traditional technologies like web development, databases, software design/programming, multimedia, animation/3D modelling, video, graphic design, as well as emerging technologies like Virtual/Augmented reality. This course is well supported with cutting-edge equipment, like Laser cutters, CNC machines, 3D printers.

When you study here, you’ll see how collaboration truly helps to create ideas that shape our world.

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COURSE INFO

The course starts with ten weeks of learning skills through your chosen software i.e. Blender, Fusion360, Inkscape etc. This is an opportunity to develop all the skills that you'll need without any assessment or risk and have some fun.

After you have an idea of your own capabilities and the capabilities of the software, you'll decide on what you'll make for your project and then design it. This will help you create your Design Portfolio that you can use to help you answer the question in the Design DCAT, AS92007, that will be held at the end of Term 3/Start of Term 4 (Date to be confirmed).

After you finish the design you get to create what you have designed. This will be around 12 weeks of work where you will plan and develop what you designed, testing and getting feedback along the way to make it better. This will be assessed by your teacher in AS92005 - Develop a digital technologies outcome, for 5 credits.

By the middle of term 3 you'll have your outcome finished. You will then have two weeks to put together a compelling presentation that tells a story of developing your outcome and covers some of the key aspects you entailed. This presentation is a nice way to pull all the knowledge, understanding and skills you have learnt in this course and showcase your project.

At the end of Term 3 you will move on to study for your two DCAT Exams. As mentioned above, one of the DCATS will be AS92007- Deisgn a digital technologies outcome and the other will be AS92006- Demonstrate understanding of usability in human computer interfaces. Instead of AS92006 you could always work though the other internal AS92004 - Create a Computer Program. The content and knowledge for this is all contained in the unit shown further down . HCI is a computer science concept is seen throughout all digital technologies and will help you get a much better understanding of interfaces as you move on to further study in digital technologies in following years. Each of the DCATs are worth 5 credits.

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TO START YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY.....

*** Describe You! ***

To begin with complete the following tutorial! This is a simple task to get back into it with the basics of Inkscape. Use Coolors.co for the colour palette generator.

Have some fun! Try out some different options by using words, shapes & initials or colours.

Submit your favourite ones here

Material Design Tutorial

YOUR CHOICE

We are going to spend Term 1 working through a variety of tasks and tutorials to hopefully develop your skill level further, and help you make decisions later on about what sort of project you want to spend the rest of the year on.

You are going to keep a record of your learning using this Skills Log. Update it as you go.