technology assignment

Technology Assignment
URL: http://www.uncg.edu/art/courses/rwrice/365/syllabus.htm

The purpose of the Computer Assignment is to assure that you have some opportunities to continue to develop your technical art skills through graphics programs, through other kinds of applications programs, through online discussion(topics) and online research.
I. Technology Lesson Plan and Presentation

You will write one lesson plan for technology on the topic assigned in class. Follow the standards-based lesson plan format in Taskstream in writing your plan. Due the first notebook check.

II.    Graphics [Learn a New Program or extend your skills in one you already know]

A. Low End Graphics Program (Macpaint, Super-paint, Lightning Paint, Kid Pix, PC Paint or Fine Artist)   Try out several of these, then chose one of the programs to complete you assignment

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Create an image or work that you would consider “art,” i. e., still life, landscape, or portrait, etc. Make one black and white print. Make another a color print (If the program does not support color; you may introduce color into a black and white print by printing on colored papers, adding collage, color pencil, paint, or marker, etc.) Mat the two images together. (Also upload to your Art Education Teaching Portfolio)

Write a Learning Statement: include the technical information on the hardware and software used. Comment on what you learned checking out the low end graphics programs.   For example, what capabilities or limitations did you discover.

B. High End Graphics Program (Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, or Fractile Design Painter) Try out several of these, then chose one of the programs to complete the assignment.

Create a poster, Class handout, or other work that combines both text and image. (e.g. illustrate a poem or short story) You may scan an image(s), take into a high end program and manipulate the image in various ways to create a new work.   [Important: If you have not used a scanner before, please be sure that you do so !]

Mat your finished piece. Make copies of work (and perhaps the process stages) for your AETP.

Write a Learning Statement: include the technical information on the hardware and software used. Comment on what you learned checking out the high end graphics programs.   For example, what capabilities or limitations did you discover.

III. Word Processing: [Continued Practice]

You may produce any of the required assignments for class; samples may be retained in your Technology Portfolio (e.g.. lesson plans, reading summaries, documents related to curriculum project, resume)

IV. Database or Spreadsheet [Continued Practice]

If useful to your course work; possible applications include calendars, supply orders, address books, etc. Look for items that will satisfy one of the competencies for the AETP and/or class assignments.

V.    Telecommunications [Continued Practice]

A. E-mail (sample messages) a good way to communicate with the instructor or your classmates.

B. Online Class Discussions and Webliography

Please respond to one topic (or a response to a post) at lease once a week.   You must have a minimum of eight responses.

C. Internet Search

Search Engines: (Yahoo, Google, Excite, Altavista, etc.)    Do a search for two of the following Art+Education,     Art+Children, “Discipline Based Art Education”, or an art topic of your choice. (Many art associations, Museums, Schools, and Crayola have websites)

Choose one that you think is the best and print the web pages at this site

Write a paragraph or so telling how this will be useful to you for a particular lesson or classroom activity?

Art Education Teaching Portfolio: Begin work and make progress towards completing this; it will be checked at the end of the semster. Portfolio Guide

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A.	Low End Graphics Program (Macpaint, Super-paint, Lightning Paint, Kid Pix, PC Paint or Fine Artist) Try out several of these, then chose one of the programs to complete you assignment
...	Create an image or work that you would consider “art,” i. e., still life, landscape, or portrait, etc. Make one black and white print. Make another a color print (If the program does not support color; you may introduce color into a black and white print by printing on colored papers, adding collage, color pencil, paint, or marker, etc.) Mat the two images together. (Also upload to your Art Education Teaching Portfolio) Write a Learning Statement: include the technical information on the hardware and software used. Comment on what you learned checking out the low end graphics programs. For example, what capabilities or limitations did you discover.
B.	High End Graphics Program (Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, or Fractile Design Painter) Try out several of these, then chose one of the programs to complete the assignment.
	Create a poster, Class handout, or other work that combines both text and image. (e.g. illustrate a poem or short story) You may scan an image(s), take into a high end program and manipulate the image in various ways to create a new work. [Important: If you have not used a scanner before, please be sure that you do so !] Mat your finished piece. Make copies of work (and perhaps the process stages) for your AETP. Write a Learning Statement: include the technical information on the hardware and software used. Comment on what you learned checking out the high end graphics programs. For example, what capabilities or limitations did you discover.