School of Art Digital Literacy/Semester 1 Weeks 1-6



The following list provides the content for Semester 1: Weeks 1 - 6 of Digital Literacy as taught by the Electronic Arts section in the School of Art, Otago Polytechnic

Timetables and Content
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Week One - Introduction to Otago Polytechnic IT Facilities
IT Services | Week one will introduce participants to the Polytech facilities induction with IT services – 1.30-5.30pm. By the end of this week you should be able to access your School e-mail, log on and off the computers and some of the other facilities available. Access the Student Portal from here

Week Two - Introduction to Digital Literacy
Week 2 will introduce you to the Course Outline (Digital Literacy), the schedule and assignments with an overview of the types of technologies and tools that may be of use to you in your study and art practice.

Lecture: Intro to Digital Literacy

Workshop: Basics – the labs, the school computers, saving and opening files/software, Health & Safety.

*Students who have digital cameras to bring them to next week’s workshop – with the relevant USB cables.

Some Links from this week's Lecture:

SIMON DEGROOT PAINTING ANIMATION

UNDER SCAN BY RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER

SONY BRAVIA ANIMATION

SONY bRAVIA ZEOTROPE

Download this week's Lecture slides from Blackboard

Week Three - The Digital Image (1)
Week three will look at the digital image as it stands in contemporary art practice, including a short history.

Lecture: Digital Image 1

Workshop: Digital Cameras – taking images/downloading/opening and Photoshop basic edits (opening/saving/re-sizing/cropping/rotating.)

Resources

[[Media:MakeContactSheets images2.pdf|Download this pdf to show you how to make "Contact Sheets" for images, through Adobe Photoshop]]

Some Links from the Lecture

Patricia Piccinini's Website

Jill Magid's Evidence Locker Website

Sony Bravia Balls on youTube (hint - search for sony bravia and you'll get options to see balls, paint, foam, play-doh...zeotrope!)

Find the Lecture Slides here on Blackboard

Week Four - The Digital Image (2: Does Size Matter?)
Week 4 will look more closely at using images in your study and practice and some of the practicalities such as file formats and sizes.

Lecture: Digital Image 2

Workshop: Scanning

Resources

[[Media:Scanning digiLit.pdf|Download this pdf that shows you how to Scan using Adobe Photoshop and the School's Canon scanners.]]

Some Links

The File Extensions Resource

Wikipedia: Graphics File Formats

How to pronounce 'gif'...?

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries' Website

You Tube Cute Otters

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

Week Five - The Write Stuff
Week five will look at individual authorship and the need for rigorous attention to literary skills demanded by various forms of academic, personal and professional publishing.

Lecture: The Write Stuff Word Processing, Referencing & Researching

Workshop: Microsoft Word (2007 version)/tables/formatting/saving(esp. file formats)/converting to pdf’s

RESOURCES: The following links may help you with this week's tasks:

On-line Dictionary - Dictionary.com

Referencing - Chicago Style manual

NZ arts info - Artlist

Saatchi gallery

Tate Gallery

This week's Lecture Slides are now available on Blackboard

Week Six - Time for a Presentation
Lecture: Time for a Presentation

Workshop: Microsoft powerpoint

LECTURE CANCELLED: Please note that this weeks lecture has been cancelled (25th March) due to illness. Instead, please look through the following links:

Presentation Zen blog by Garr Reynolds Please look through some of the posts in this blog - Garr points out several do's and don'ts about giving presentations by highlighting talks given across various industries.

Ted Talks Website Garr (above) uses many of the talks on this website to discuss presentation styles - have a look through the arts section and watch a few videos that you find of interest.

RESOURCES

If you get stuck work through session 2 - 6 of this tutorial

Microsoft's instructions on how to make your powerpoints look like you work for them

slide share and an example of a very slick powerpoint