Neelin High School 

Course Outline / Assessment

Course Title

Digital Communications 20G 

Rationale: 

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to communication and digital  media through use of software applications, hardware and various text and internet resources. Digital communication and media are ubiquitous in today's society and acquisition of  skills in this area are essential to become a productive member of the twenty-first century. 

This course will be primarily concerned with creating 2d and 3d artwork using the industry standard vector art program Adobe Illustrator.

Hands–on, individual and team projects will emphasize language arts skills through reading assignments and tutorials. Major projects will include creation of newsletters, abstract art, children’s book, album cover art, and posters.

All assignments will completed in the class lab environment to develop ancillary skills with regard to collaboration on the school network, using email, file sharing/backup and project management.

Timeline

• Approximately  85 classes 

Assessment/Evaluation

1. Unit 1

   Advanced Units in Illustrator     

             Projects will include: Animation, Opacity and Clipping Masks, Blends & Gradient Meshes.

    

2. Unit 2

   Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

   Using Photoshop effectively. Projects to practice and enhance basic skills: Creating a master image; Repairing a photo; Making a family collage; Colorizing a black and white photo; restoring and repairing an old photo

    

3. Unit 3

   Advanced Adobe Photoshop Layers, Channels, Filters and Blending modes; for the web, Zebra girl, Abstract art, Album cover art; a Media literacy poster; Warping your friends and family; Magazine artwork

  4.  Unit 4

Introduction to Art for the WWW

   5.  Unit 4 

A Major project which will incorporate all of the above units

NB.

1. This course is done entirely in-class on the PCs. It is imperative that students attend regularly since lost activity, project and instructional time will be hard to make-up. It could be detrimental to the students  understanding of computer media concepts and cause them to miss required elements that have to be completed in the class in order to receive course credit
2. These topics are tentative and can change based on student progress, availability of software and hardware on the PCs in Room 33.(The process of acquiring  new equipment is an ongoing endeavour)
3. All work is done in class so there is no homework as such. Times for catching up on missed assignment are as on the home page here.

Resources

• Online Microsoft, Adobe and other hardware and software help files
• Appropriate educational websites, tutorials, and documents supplied by the instructor
• Classroom library of textural materials
• DVD Instructional discs
• Instructor supplied files