WHO: The lessons are designed for first-year design students with access to personal accounts on the University of Texas at Dallas server.

WHAT: The lesson requires prior knowledge of design and work samples to create an aesthetic composition for their own personal online web portfolio.

HOW: At key points during the lessons, the video will pause, allowing learners to complete the corresponding activity before moving forward. After each lesson, there is a self-assessment students can run to check for errors.

 

Curriculum Design:
This learning object has a complete Curriculum Design Document supporting it.

User Feedback:

This learning object was evaluated by users in spring of 2011. The purpose of the evaluation session was to assess the effectiveness of multi-media learning and the UX of this video series. View the evaluation results.

WHO: Under the dean of Arts & Humanities and the dean of ATEC, the website and LMS templates were created to support teaching assistants in facilitating core instruction across 6 sections of a foundational course in design.

WHAT: An updated curriculum, relevant to current trends and design skills within the Arts & Technology department at the UT|Dallas.

HOW: Research and inquiry with ATEC faculty, to define relevant resources and course objectives that support future course requirements.

Course Structure and Content:

For this course to be designated as “design studio” an element of art criticism is required. The solution was to structure a formal critique process around the Elements and Principles of Design Theory.

Technical skills focus on predominant software used across industries. Topics that focus on industry knowledge were developed in collaboration with ATEC faculty from Animation, Game and Emerging Media Communications.

REFERENCES:

• Barrett, Terry. Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary – Second Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2000)
• Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
• Feldman, Edmund. “The Teacher as Model Critic” The Journal of Aesthetic Education 7, no 1 (1973) 50-57
• Fink PhD, L. Dee, A Self-Directed Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning (Distributed through TAC workshop: “Course Design”)
• Goldberg, A. (2005). (Article on JOIL ref. through UTD-OEE) “Exploring Instructional Design Issues with Web-Enhanced Courses”
• Journal of Interactive Learning (JOIL)
• Sanders, N.M. Classroom questions: What kinds? (New York Harper and Row. 1966)
• Weitz, Morris. Hamlet and the Philosophy of Literary Criticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), vii.

SUMMARY: A grant funded project in partnership between two Texas Charter Management Organizations, serving students and parents from under-served communities.

PROBLEM: Drop-out prevention and college matriculation among low-income minority teens of urban settings in North Texas and urban and rural settings along the South Texas border.

SOLUTION: Beginning in 6th grade, first generation college-bound students and their parents receive classes, workshops and training to indoctrinate families into the college going culture.

Road to College Mission:
The program’s foundation exists in one statement: “College is possible” It is the mission of IDEA_Public_Schools and Uplift_Education to prepare students from under-served communities for success in college and citizenship by developing students with the academic, social and leadership characteristics needed to apply, matriculate and succeed at post-secondary education.

Curriculum Guidelines:
With leadership support, the program’s focus is consistent across all schools:
Grade Level Themes: | Core Standards | Instructional Time | Enduring Understandings.

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WHO: Education Technology professionals focusing on production of learning objects, or anyone interested in adding details to their productions with Camtasia Studio 7.1 software.

WHAT: Five technical instruction videos that address various “How To” techniques for customizing Camtasia-produced content.

HOW: Addressing multimedia learning principles and temporal contiguity (visual and auditory processing) during the active learning.

Video Series: