All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.
We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan

Tutorials:

How to access the NSPES Email and Cloud Service here.

Camera Fundamentals, what you should know about your camera.

LEARNING PHOTOSHOP CS5 (selection of tutorials)

Garageband Howto
Note that there are three different types of tracks, each with their own capacity for filters: blue, orange and violet. Change type, ctrl+alt+G.

Dreamweaver CS5: Set up // site build (videos)

Fireworks CS5: Buttons // banners and graphics (videos)

Flash CS5: Adobe Video Tutorials (use GS1 through GS13)
Make simple animations e.g. logo// templates community

Illustrator CS5: Basics ; Top 5 new features ; Live trace

InDesign CS5: Basics (pdf) ; Lesson episodes

Sketchup (tutorials are imbeded in the software)

iMovie 11. Tutorials are in the Application's Help.
Cheat Sheet step by step

Music / Sound terminology and concepts

Elements of Art: Chart 1; details

Principles of Design: Source 1; Source 2; symmetry ;

See Elements and Principles of design slide shows

Typography, What you need to know

Design Thinking for Teachers

True Colours Personality Quiz

Readings & Exemplars:

Readings:

Marshall McLuhan's Message for Multimedia

Space and place: the perspective of experience By Yi-Fu Tuan

Exemplars:

Experience Place Keynotes turned into Movies (.mov)

Fears, Passions and Egos Posters

Assignments:

gun credit
Pistol of Credit, Rachel Fraser

All assignments submitted and described through the Moodle.

Login with your NSPES address (123abcdef@nspes.ca)

Towards 77 million paintings: Principles of Design poster(photos of details combined with graphic elements composed in Pages). Details on Moodle
Experiencing Place: Audio & visual virtual experince. (Keynote, Garageband, PS basics and Illustrator.)
Assigned targets / assessment. (.docx // PDF)
Fears, Passions, and Egos vs Hope, Faith, and Charity: Print Design (PS CS5 and inDesign)
Assigned targets / assessment. (.PDF // Pages)
Web Portfolio: Dreamweaver & Firweworks. Post your snap link in Moodle
Video art review (see Moodle, research and post)
The Ironic Trailor: Video editing
Teach us! Using video capture and or EPub tools, deisgn a booklet or video that teaches a lesson about something you know how to do.
WunderKammer: 3D mixed media art (No computers).
Experience time and place: final project.

Day 1: Take pictures of Horton that show different Principles of Design. Explore Illustrator for techniques on drawing and image manipulation.

Day 2: Take one image, up your saturation and bring it into Illustrator where oyu Live Trace it and play with features to change into a unique artwork. Upload results to moodle.

Day 3: With 15 minutes, take a series of pictures in the school. You should collect images that exemplify each principle of design. Then, using Adobe Bridge, import images into Adobe Photoshop. Adjust your best 3 in Illustrator, each should model a distinct pirnciple of design. Upload results to moodle.