WED: Photoshop Unit Introduction

UNIT Learning Targets

• What is REAL and how can we tell?
• How is reality manipulated by technology?
• How can WE manipulate reality?

DAILY Learning Target(s)

• We can turn in our Winter Break Challenges
• We can begin to learn the BREADTH of things Photoshop is useful for

Announcements 

• SLG Field Trip to Poetry Slam NEXT MONDAY on MLK Day
• get permission slips from John or Mariah
• FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
• Not on SLG? There is a meeting at the end of January to plan the Spring activities.
• 11th grade not here for 2 weeks
• Bring headphones EVERY DAY for the Photoshop instructional videos

Agenda [100]

• Typing.com [15] 
• or finishing Uploading our 10 Winter Challenge Photos to Google Classroom and then Typing.com
• New Seat Auditions [10]
• Grab your stuff
• Push in your chair
• Find ONE or THREE person(s) who you think will HELP you do HIGH-QUALITY WORK (remember this is the hardest unit of the year)
• When you have your pair or foursome go line up quietly outside the door. Stay in a single file line and don't let anybody cut you.
• I will place your group on the seating chart and we will see if you made a good choice.  
• I will reseat you if you are not on-point
• This is NOT a group PROJECT and your technical & artistic grades will be on your own work
• Your behavior grade, however, will be determined by this group as a whole.
• Introduction to Photoshop [Ongoing++]
• Why we learn Photoshop [05]
• How we learn Photoshop [05]
• What is Photoshop CC? [10]
• How difficult is this? [05]
• The Icons (Cheat Sheet!) [10]
• The Video tutorials, how we will use them, and how you will be graded [10]
• WE watch
• WE do - once or twice
• YOU Practice until YOU can do ALL of the individual SKILLS
• YOU come to office hours if the class is moving too fast or you just need extra help.
• YOU rewatch the tutorials as many times as it takes
• You complete multiple Photoshop projects that demonstrate you have learned the required skills

• Our first Photoshop assignments [Ongoing++]
• Fundamental Photoshop [Multiple Times]
• Downloading work files
• What if the tutorial does not have work files?
• Unzipping and properly storing work files