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Analysis:
What is the overall need for instruction?
This course is designed for first-year college students majoring in Digital Media, Graphic Design, Web Design, and Communication & Video Production. It provides students with the basic knowledge, vocabulary, and skills needed to enter into the visual communication profession. It’s a foundational and mandatory course for art students.
How are the tasks, skills, or content structures of your unit organized?
In this course, students will explore many facets of creating digital artwork using Adobe Photoshop. Topics include digital painting, 2D design, photo manipulation, image compositing, animation, 3D design, and human-computer interface design. The linked document provides an overall structure of the course and details of unit #2.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1naQFw4TuDO55-QZkPEfEBmgAM79-zOPacI5FUa0t_y0/edit?usp=sharing
What are the learning objectives for this unit?
Elaborate on what digital photography is.
Discuss its power and artistic style.
Apply the compositional principles of the Rule of the Thirds and the Golden Ratio to your artwork.
Use Adobe Photoshop tools to polish and finish your digital photography project.
Provide constructive feedback to peers’ projects using professional language and online etiquette.
Design/Development:
Unit 2: Digital Photography
Objective(s):
Elaborate on what digital photography is.
Discuss its power and artistic style.
Media/technology selection rationale:
In this online digital studio art class, students will learn the following four types of skills: Informational, Application, Procedural, and Problem Solving skills. In this class, students are also required to learn how to use Photoshop to create various original digital artwork. To successfully design and carry out the course, designers and instructors need the technology listed below to make it possible:
Computer, Internet, LMS (part of the course content can be viewed and completed on mobile devices)
Play Video, Audio, and Audio slides
Screen capture and recording software
Audio recording software
Discussion board with annotating ability
Word processor
Adobe Photoshop
Implementation:
Additional Considerations for Implementing Online Courses:
Our college’s online program is small compared to the colleges around us. We only offer online classes. We do not have online degree or certificate programs. The following listed items need to be considered and improved when implementing the delivery of online digital art courses. The list takes into consideration the college’s current logistical, organizational, non-instructional, communicational and factors of human conditions.
Provide real time troubleshooting services. Currently, if a student encounters a tech problem, he/she will need to fill a form to report the issues, and wait until a technician is on duty to solve the problem.
Provide real time tutoring and software supporting services on Adobe Creative Cloud and Autodesk 3D graphics.
Provide professional training opportunities to faculty members in online education and teaching. Currently, the college mainly offers Blackboard, Echo360, Zoom and other tech related training.
Give incentives to faculty who practice experimentation and innovation.
Providing real time troubleshooting service and tutoring are critical to the effective implementation of the Introduction to Digital Arts course I am planning. Providing professional training and incentives to experimentation and innovation can support meeting the college’s needs and expand the digital arts program.
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