Monday 12/15 & Tuesday 12/17

Artist Statement

You will need to complete a short artist statement explaining your last design and your process. This will be displayed with your work so people viewing your work can have a better understanding of your design. 

 

Artist Statement Link

 

Friday 12/12

Personal Project Objective​

1. Complete the Historical Poster Project Feedback Form to share your feedback and thoughts. 

2. Please complete the Semester 1 Feedbackif you didn’t last class.

 

Wednesday 12/10 & Thursday 12/11

Prepare for Critique

1. Open the critique form in Schoology in the Historical folder. Fill out the information at the top.

2. Complete Step 1 on the critique form. 

3. Open your designs up.

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Monday 12/8 & Tuesday 12/9

Semester Survey & Inspiration

1. Please take time to give valuable feedback back to Mr. Wiant about this semester. Semester 1 Feedback

2. Then download and open this PSD file and take a look at how this design was created before we talk about it.

 

Friday 12/5

Personal Project Objective

1. Open your Personal Project Objective in your creative brief. 

2. Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now.

 

Wednesday 12/3 & Thursday 12/4

Design Principles - Balance & Hierarchy

Go to Schoology to answer the Do-Now.

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Monday 12/1 & Tuesday 12/2

Native American Designers

1. Native American Slides

2. Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now.

 

Friday 11/21

Personal Project Objective

1. If you didn't complete the objective last class, go do last class's Do-now. 

2. If you turned in late work it is all graded. Update the competency tracker for the last project. 

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Wednesday 11/19 & Thursday 11/20

Personal Project Objective

Complete Personal Project Objective on your Creative Brief. Make sure to follow the directions carefully when writing this.

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Monday 11/17 & Tuesday 11/18

Project Feedback

Complete the Project Feedback Survey to share your voice about the last project. 

 

Friday 11/14

Objective Reflection

Open your Personal Objectives and complete Step 2 to reflect on the objective you wrote. We will review this together. 

 

If you did not write your objective at the start of the project, you will need to make this up next class.

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Wednesday 11/12 & Thursday 11/13

Artist Statement

Complete the artist statement for this project.

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Monday 11/10 & Tuesday 11/11

Prepare for Critique

1. Review the 50% grade and feedback that is in your project folder on your Drive. 

2. Open your designs up. 

3. Open the critique form in Schoology in the Surrealism folder. Fill out the information at the top and step 1.

 

Friday 11/7

Do-Now

​Read over the agenda. 

 

Wednesday 11/5 & Thursday 11/6

Personal Project Objective Reflection

1. Open your personal project objective in your creative brief and review what you wrote. If you haven’t done this, just go to Schoology. 

2. Open up Schoology to complete the Do-Now. 

 

Monday 11/3 & Tuesday 11/4

Design Principles

Go to Schoology to answer the do-now.

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Wednesday 10/29 & Thursday 10/30

Photo Editing Demo

Download the Photo Editing Demo files.

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Monday 10/27 & Tuesday 10/28

Competency Tracker

Open your creative briefs from your Choice project and review the feedback and grade. ​

 

Friday 10/24

Surrealism Notes

1. Create a new folder in your Final and title it “Surrealism”. 

2. Create a new doc in there and title it “Surrealism Notes”.

 

Wednesday 10/22 & Thursday 10/23

Remove Background

Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now. 

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Monday 10/20 & Tuesday 10/21

50% Feedback & Prep for Critique

1. Go to Schoology and open the Choice Design Folder. Open the critique assignment from there. 

2. Open your designs and prepare for the critique.

3. Open your Choice folder in your drive and review the video feedback from Mr. Wiant.

 

Tuesday 10/14 & Wednesday 10/15

Design Principles 

Go to Schoology to answer the Do-now.

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Friday 10/10

Creativity

Go to Schoology and to the P2 - Choice folder. Complete the M1 (Misc 1) Creativity assignment.

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Wednesday 10/8 & Thursday 10/9

Prep For Notes

1. Review brainstorming grade and feedback on Creative Brief. 

2. Create a blank doc in your Misc folder and title it “Design Principle Notes”.

 

Monday 10/6 & Tuesday 10/7

Project Feedback & Notes

1. Provide feedback about the pen tool exercises and Fear project. 

2. Review your End of Project feedback and grade in Schoology.

3. Open your Fear Creative Brief. 

 

Friday 10/3

Project Reflection & Notes​

1. Create a new folder in your Final and title it Choice Design.

2. Create a new Google Doc in that folder and title it “Book and Poster Notes”.​

3. Go to Schoology and to your Fear folder. Complete the end of project reflection once we go over the directions together. This is for a grade so take your time and check your grammar. 

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Wednesday 10/1 & Thursday 10/2

Critique Feedback & October Count Survey

1. Review the feedback Mr. Wiant gave on your critique doc in Schoology.​

2. Go to Schoology to complete the October Count Survey.

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Monday 9/29 & Tuesday 9/30

Prep for Critique

1. Go to Schoology and open the Fear Poster Folder. Open the critique assignment from there. 

2. We will go over Step 1 together.

3. Open your designs and prepare for the critique.

 

Thursday 9/25 & Friday 9/26

Project Requirements 

1. Go to Schoology and complete the October Count Survey.

2. It is required that you are using the pen tool in your project and either layer masks or clipping masks. Answer where you are using those on the printout Mr. Wiant hands out and be prepared to discuss with Mr. Wiant.

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Tuesday 9/23 & Wednesday 9/24

Daily Goal

Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now.

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Friday 9/119

Quiz

Complete the Masks and Pen Tool Check.

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Wednesday 9/17 & Thursday 9/18

Brainstorm Grade

1. Open you Fear Creative Brief and scroll down to the Brainstorming rubric to read the feedback from Mr. Wiant. 

2. Create a blank Google Doc in your Misc folder and title it Paths & Masks.

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Monday 9/15 & Tuesday 9/16

Assignment Feedback

1. Open your Creative Brief for the About Me assignment. 

2. Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now

 

Friday 9/12

Fear

Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now.

 

Wednesday 9/9 & Thursday 9/11

Intro to Photoshop Feedback

1. Take time to complete a feedback survey so Mr. Wiant can continue to improve the class and assignments to better support you. 

2. Download and open the Pen Tool Tutorial File in Photoshop.

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Monday 9/8 & Tuesday 9/9

Google Drive

1. Open your Google Drive and go to your Final folder. 

2. Check that your About Me folder is correctly saved there. 

3. Check that your creative brief is correctly saved there. 

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Thursday 9/4

Class Expectations

Got to our Schoology course to complete the Do-Now.

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Tuesday 9/2 & Wednesday 9/3

PSD Shortcuts 

Answer the survey about Photoshop Shortcuts.

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Friday 8/28

Do-Now

Read over the agenda. 

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Wednesday 8/27 & Thursday 8/28

Photoshop Struggles

Go to Schoology to complete the Do-Now.

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Monday 8/25 & Tuesday 8/26

Check Your Drive

1. Open your Drive and go to your Period 1 or Period 6 folder. 

2. Check that you have named it correctly: Period1_LastName_FirstName

3. Open the folder and check that you have made a Misc. and Final folder inside there

 

Friday 8/22

Survey

Complete the Course Selection Survey

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Wednesday 8/20 & Thursday 8/21

Setting Up Google Drive

1. Log into your school Google account (DPS email and birthday for the password)

2. Go to your Google Drive

3. Create a new folder titled- Period1_lastName_FirstName or Period6_lastName_FirstName

4. Share the folder by searching for Steve Wiant or steve_wiant@dpsk12.net. 

5. Create two subfolders: Misc., Final

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Setup Google Drive Tutorial