DigiDesignsStudents work with animations, layout design, graphic arts, video, and more. It's all about CREATING--leveraging free internet-based tools to create visually interesting works of digital art.
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(This class is coded NCES 11002)
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Students are eager to sign up for DigiDesigns, and with good reason! The digital tools we use are top-of-the-line, cutting-edge, and free. We play with programming (both visual and coding), graphic design and web design, and learn how to leverage those and apply them to business & marketing.
Sample Student Portfolios
Sample Project Checklist (from Week 11 of DigiDesigns)
11-23 (80pts) Narrated Animation
This is a site dedicated to the Narrated Animation we're going for. Don't make an account, just look at what it is that we're doing here.
http://slowmation.com
The primary difference between this and the previous Simple Animation project is that this one must be CONTENT-Oriented. That is to say, you will choose an area of academic studies that you wish to know more about, go research it a bit, and TELL THE STORY with a narrated animation.
Work with an adult to choose an appropriate concept for your narration--it should be something that is current and relevant to your other studies. History is an easy one; you could choose a single historical character and tell his or her story. Science is an easy one; you could choose a single scientific area of study and tell the history of the science . . . and what's currently being studied in this living area of scientific inquiry.
Some Examples: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22slowmation%22
PROJECT CHECKLIST
____ Informational Narrative must be the primary focus of the video. Don't focus so much time on your graphical element--your clay, legos, paper cutouts, figurines--that you come up short on the informational narrative.
____ At least 10 "new informations" are embedded into the narration. If a random student two years younger than you would know it, it's not the quality of information we're talking about. If a student two years older than you would say "Wow, really?" then you've got information that counts double.
____ Include your 10 "new informations" as a list in the Turn In area, along with the URL to your Portfolio page where this project is embedded, and this completed (__x__) Project Checklist.
11-23 (80pts) Narrated Animation
This is a site dedicated to the Narrated Animation we're going for. Don't make an account, just look at what it is that we're doing here.
http://slowmation.com
The primary difference between this and the previous Simple Animation project is that this one must be CONTENT-Oriented. That is to say, you will choose an area of academic studies that you wish to know more about, go research it a bit, and TELL THE STORY with a narrated animation.
Work with an adult to choose an appropriate concept for your narration--it should be something that is current and relevant to your other studies. History is an easy one; you could choose a single historical character and tell his or her story. Science is an easy one; you could choose a single scientific area of study and tell the history of the science . . . and what's currently being studied in this living area of scientific inquiry.
Some Examples: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22slowmation%22
PROJECT CHECKLIST
____ Informational Narrative must be the primary focus of the video. Don't focus so much time on your graphical element--your clay, legos, paper cutouts, figurines--that you come up short on the informational narrative.
____ At least 10 "new informations" are embedded into the narration. If a random student two years younger than you would know it, it's not the quality of information we're talking about. If a student two years older than you would say "Wow, really?" then you've got information that counts double.
____ Include your 10 "new informations" as a list in the Turn In area, along with the URL to your Portfolio page where this project is embedded, and this completed (__x__) Project Checklist.