- Tell your partner how you got your Parent non-permission letter home.
- Show what you are currently designing or have most recently designed in Illustrator or Photoshop
Agenda Part 1: Visual design
- Bell ringer
- Typography in Illustrator (also works in Photoshop) (Follow Along and do what I do!) - font list
- Intro to Photoshop (Follow Along and do what I do!)
- Choosing the right toolio for the job, yo!
- Supersize it (in Ps & Ai)
- Preset Manager
- Snagging some free Photos
- Visual design project : PSA Poster
- Optional Visual design bonus - Make your blog #awesome \o/
Extra time?
Agenda Part 2: Cracking the code
- Go to My Big Campus and participate in the posted discussion titled, "What most schools don't teach". Once in My Big Campus, gveraeok!! (...sorry Klingon Tourettes...) you will need to join the "Seventh Grade CIT" group.
Objectives:
- [5] You will use observations of examples of effective and ineffective design to develop strategies to improve communication, sustainability, and useability.
- [6] You will use the relationship between color, typography, layout, and tone to design for a specific audience and purpose.
- [7] You will employ good typography and color theory to design for impact and readability.
- [11] You will develop an understanding of programming & computational concepts.
- [12] You will develop fluency with computational concepts (i.e. sequence, loops, events) and practices (i.e. iterative and incremental development, testing and debugging, reusing and remixing).