Schedule
PHOT 530 Online • Mt. San Jacinto College
Michelle Pacansky-Brock
Orientation Module
Every assignment has a rubric that explains exactly what you need to do to earn a completion for that assignment. Please get in the habit of viewing the rubric before you complete an assignment.
Orientation Module Objectives
By the end of this orientation you will be able to:
Contact Michelle or your classmates for help
Identify what I expect of you and what you can expect of me
Navigate through a Canvas module
Familiarize yourself with the course requirements and structure
Get oriented to VoiceThread
Set-up your notifications and profile settings
Take a survey using the Canvas Quiz tool
List of Orientation Module assignments:
Due Wednesday:
Sign up for a Zoom Check-in (a 10-minute check-in that you'll complete by the end of week two)
Getting to Know You Survey -- this is the official MSJC check-in for this class. Per MSJC regulations, students who do not submit this assignment on time may be dropped.
Agree to Our Pact Discussion
Due Friday:
"What I Value" VoiceThread assignment - upload your photo and leave your voice or video comment
Due Monday:
Pick Your Grade assignment
Orientation Quiz
Reply to two peers in the "What I Value" VoiceThread
Module 1: Road to Photography
Module 1 Learning Objectives
Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the silhouette, cyanotype photogram, camera obscura, and photogenic drawing to the invention of photography
Identify the contributions of John Herschel, Thomas Wedgewood, Anna Atkins, and Williams Henry Fox Talbot to the development and use of pre-photographic processes
Critically reflect on the subjective nature of photographic meaning.
Module 1 Assignments
Due Thursday:
The Function and Meaning of Photographs (Canvas Discussion) - one post
Due Friday:
Attend one 10-minute Zoom Check-in
Monday:
Function & Meaning of Photographs Discussion - two replies
"Create a Camera Obscura" VoiceThread
Module 1 Study Guide
Module 1 Quiz
Module 2: Early Photographic Processes
Module 2 Learning Objectives
Visually decode a photograph.
Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the daguerreotype, calotype, heliography, and the latent image.
Identify the contributions of Daguerre, Niépce, Talbot, and Bayard to the invention of photography.
Discuss the problems involved with identifying ownership of inventions and other historical accomplishments.
Examine the historical details and subject matter of one daguerreotype.
Module 2 Assignments
Due Thursday
"Decoding Photographs" VoiceThread - one comment
Due Monday
Curate a Daguerreotype Collection (VoiceThread)
Decoding Photographs - one reply to a peer (VoiceThread)
Module 2 Study Guide
Module 2 Quiz
Module 3: Wetplate Processes
Module 3 Learning Objectives
Explain the improvements that collodion brought to photography.
Compare and contrast the daguerreotype and calotype processes with the wet plate processes (glass plate negative/albumen print, ambrotype, tintype).
Explain the basic steps and identify the visual characteristics of albumen prints, ambrotypes, and tintypes.
Describe the benefits and challenges with wet-plate processes.
Evaluate how the human desire for portraits influenced the advancement of the photographic medium.
Consider the impact of photography on human memory.
Module 3 Assignments
Due Thursday
Portrait Revolution (Canvas Discussion) - one post
Due Monday
Portrait Revolution - two replies
Curate a Carte de Visite
Submit Module 3 Study Guide
Module 3 Quiz
Mid-Course Feedback Survey
Module 4: Snapshots & Motion Pictures
Module 4 Learning Objectives
Explain how the gelatin silver process improved upon the wet plate collodion process.
Discuss how the Kodak Brownie revolutionized the medium of photography.
Demonstrate how to use still images to create a motion picture.
Discuss the contributions of Eadward Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey to the development of the motion picture.
Discuss photography's influence on painting in the late nineteenth century.
Module 4 Assignments
Due Thursday:
Social Influencers (Canvas Discussion) - one post
Due Monday:
Social Influencers - two replies
"Create a Motion Picture" VoiceThread
Submit the Module 4 Study Guide
Module 4 Quiz
Module 5: Modern Art Photography in the U.S.
Module 5 Learning Objectives
Evaluate the role of snapshots on human memory and identity.
Describe one reason why photography struggled to be recognized as an art form.
Discuss three contributions of Alfred Stieglitz that elevated photography as an art form in the United States.
Compare and contrast pictorialist photography with straight photography.
Module 5 Assignments
Due Sunday:
"Your Family Archive" VoiceThread - Upload one photo and leave one voice or video comment
Sign up for a 20th Century Photographer
Due Monday:
Module 5 Study Guide
Module 5 Quiz
Module 6: 20th Century Photography Project
Module 6 Learning Objectives
Evaluate the work of one 20th-century photographer of your choice.
Describe the significant life events and contributions of one 20th century photographer of your choice.
Curate a collection of photographs that represent significant contributions of one 20th century photographer.
Module 6 Assignments
Following the rubric criteria, you will spend this week researching your 20th century photographer. Your VoiceThread project is due at the start of Module 7.
Module 7: Wrap Up
Module 7 Learning Objectives
Critically reflect on the work of one 20th century photographer.
Reflect on what you've learned in this class.
Provide advice to future students.
Module 7 Assignments
Due Tuesday:
20th Century Photographer Project (Create your own VoiceThread)
Due Monday
20th Century Photographer Project (VoiceThread) - Reply to one peer
Final Course Feedback Survey
Learning Reflections
Wisdom Wall