Y13 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 five 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 undertake an Inquiry. Once you know all you need to know you will then design it.

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.

By the end of term 3 you'll have your outcome finished.

The NZQA DCAT will be sat in Term 3 week 9 and you will sit a derived grade exam during school exams.

GATHERING SOME INFO

Please fill out this survey so we can get to know you 13DTM survey

NEED SOME PROJECT INSPIRATION

Check out these pages

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TO START YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY.....

*** YOU ***

To begin with you are going to create 3 things that reflect you.

These are all done on Adobe Express which is free when using your school account. As well as the images think about the fonts, colours and layout. With the sticker think about an (appropriate) saying you use all the time or something that reflects this subject/course.

Have some fun! Try out some different options.

Submit all three here

YOUR CHOICE

We are going to spend the first half of 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.

3D Modelling

Animation

Audio Visual

Design for Manufacture

Print & Digital Media

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ASSESSMENT DATES:

Inquiry Formative - Term 1 Week 8, Friday 28th March
Inquiry Summative - Term 2 Week 1, Friday 2nd May
Design Formative - Term 2 Week 2, Friday 9th May
Design Summative - Term 2 Week 5, Friday 30th May (ToD)
Development Formative #1 - Term 2 Week 9, Friday 27th June (Sprint 1 & most of sprint 2 should be complete)
Development Formative #2 - Term 3 Week 10, Friday 19th September
Development Summative - Term 4 Week 2, Friday 17th October

EXTERNALS:

DCAT 91909: Term 3, week 4 & 5 - BHS Derived Grade Exam
DCAT 91909 : Term 3, week 9 - Thursday 11th September. This is the actual NZQA Exam

If you are in Game Design you will do this external instead of the DCAT:

Report 91617: NZQA Submission Date - Wednesday 29th October

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