What We Did:

• Tuesday: Some of the K-8 Yearbook Classes have called on us for help 
• We are helping design and tweak a few things for their book 
• It’s fun to do a real-world project for our school 
• Thursday/Friday: Some classes worked on a Style Guide where they used the logos they created as part of their design.  We will work on an email signature, letterhead, business card, and powerpoint guide  

What to Work On:

• Any unfinished work
• Fun with Letters
• Pencil Tool
• Logo Design (we will have 1 more class to finish this) 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Keep working on our projects

What We Did:

• Kept working on our digital logos 
• If the logo was done, create another version of the logo (none of the logos we see today were done on the first try-- or at least there were many options and then they chose the current version we see today) 

What to Work On:

• You will have one more class period to work on your logo 
• Pencil paper copy
• Digital copy
• Be sure all previous assignments are completed and uploaded: (let me know if you need the assignment sheet for these) 
• Fun with Letters
• Pencil Tool

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Finish our logo project, then use our logo for a style guide 

What We Did:

• Logo Design
• Transferring our design to Adobe Illustrator for a digital version 

What to Work On:

• Any unfinished work
• Fun with Letters
• Pencil Tool
• Logo Design- paper/pencil design, started transferring to Illustrator 
• All work must be uploaded to Google Drive in the folder we created and you shared with me in order for it to be “turned in” 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• We should have one more class to finish up our digital version of our logo design 

What We Did:

• We began our Logo Design project
• Students are designing a logo on paper first
• Then they will transfer it to Adobe Illustrator
• We talked about what makes a good logo 

What to Work On:

• Any unfinished work
• Fun with Letters 
• Pencil Tool 
• Logo Design- paper/pencil initial design 

What We Plan to Do Next Week:

• Begin transferring our design to Adobe Illustrator

Grading reminder: This year we have begun to put “Missings” into the Infinite Campus Gradebook if student’s work is not turned in at the time we grade.  We were asked to do this by the office. I will make a note if a student is absent or if something is incomplete. I always welcome my students to keep working on their assignments if they are unhappy with the grade they earned.  The goal is to learn and keep growing their skills, so I’m happy if they’d like to go back and make improvements to their work. If a student is absent, I will send home missing work and they need to let me know when they’ve “turned it in” in their folder online via email.  Missings can be changed easily and do not have to be the final grade if the students re-submits or turns in their work for the first time if they were sick. We want students to understand what happens if they don’t complete work, which is why we have been asked to put in the missings.  And like I said, this can be changed easily once students hand in their work. At the end of the semester students will be told a date in advance for when grades will be finalized. This will give them time if they have any missing assignments to complete them and turn them in. While my goal is for students to learn, it is also a goal for students to stick to deadlines, be responsible for their work, etc. I would highly encourage them to stay up to date with their assignments. Please let me know if you have any questions about this. 

What We Did:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Using the pencil tool 
• How to make modifications using the pencil tool 

What to Work On:

• Any previously unfinished work from the semester 
• Fun with Letters
• Pencil Tool 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Create a logo, then use the pencil tool and layers in Illustrator to make our logo digital 

What We Did:

• Adobe Illustrator
• Fun with letters 
• Making outlines, manipulating the text image, changing color 

What to Work On:

• Remember that the Adobe Suite is available at home on a laptop/computer
• You can go to their website and download software
• Login with an Enterprise ID and use your SVVSD login to gain access while you are enrolled in the Graphic Design class 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Using the pencil tool 

What We Did:

• Continue to wrap up work 
• Beginning of Year: Digital Citizenship Poster 
• Design Principles: Vocab, Collection, and Labeling
• Working with Precision
• Cereal Box Design + Illustrator Version
• Creating Transparency Design with Letters
• Making a Poster 
• Op Art

What to Work On:

• Please complete any unfinished work- check Infinite Campus 
• All work is due Friday, December 13th 
• Students have been personally informed for about a month with what is due for the semester
• Students can sign-in and download Adobe Illustrator on computers at home to complete work
• Students may also come to school to complete work during Tech Lab times 
• All work must be turned-in in the Google Drive folder they have created
• Students must email me when they have placed worked in the folder (I will not be searching student folders for missing work)  

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

There are no high school classes next week-- have a great Winter Break! 

What We Did:

• Adobe Illustrator- Op Art 
• Wrap up all of our projects
• Beginning of Year: Digital Citizenship Poster 
• Design Principles: Vocab, Collection, and Labeling
• Working with Precision
• Cereal Box Design + Illustrator Version
• Creating Transparency Design with Letters
• Making a Poster 
• Op Art

What to Work On:

• Be sure all projects are completed and submitted by Friday, December 13th
• The Adobe suite can be downloaded on a computer at home (students login with an Enterprise ID- SVVSD) to complete work or they may come in for Tech Lab and use on of our MacBook Airs 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Finish all projects 

What We Did:

• We looked at our assignments from the semester and went over what needs to be turned in by December 13th 
• We started a new project in Illustrator- Creating Transparency Design with Letters
• Font, size, outlines, layers, transparency, rotating objects, creating a design 

What to Work On:

All assignments are due Friday, December 13th.  Here is the list of assignments that are due by then.  Students were given this list in class. They can access Adobe Illustrator from home on a laptop (not a chromebook).  They need to download it and then sign in with their Enterprise ID (their SVVSD account). From their they can work on their files and save them to their Creative Cloud Account, which places their projects in a cloud so they can access them at home or at school.  

• Beginning of Year: Digital Citizenship Poster 
• Design Principles: Vocab, Collection, and Labeling
• Working with Precision
• Cereal Box Design + Illustrator Version
• Creating Transparency Design with Letters
• Making a Poster 
• Plus one more project…. 

What We Plan to Do Next Week:

• Keep working on our projects
• More illustrator projects as the classes need them…. 

All of the work for the semester is due Friday, December 13th.  If you have any unfinished work or work you'd like to resubmit it must be done by Friday, December 13th. Nothing will be accepted after the deadline for this semester's grades.  Be sure to check Infinite Campus for grades and let me know if you have any questions.  

What We Did:

• Wrap up our cereal box design
• Started our poster project
• Graphic designers get specs from clients and then translate that to the computer 

What to Work On:

• Unfinished work 
• Both projects need to be done by the end of November, but work on these at home if you need to
• Students can access Adobe Illustrator from home using their school logins- they will use an Enterprise ID (SVVSD accounts) 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Keep working on our projects
• Start some shorter projects that give tips on how to use Illustrator- create a design with transparency with letters 

What We Did:

• Kept working on Adobe Illustrator
• Cereal Box Design
• Poster Project

What to Work On:

• Any missing assignments
• Keep working on your projects

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

Keep working- graphic design takes many hours!

What We Did:

• Work time 
• Cereal Box Design
• Making a Poster
• Cereal Box and Making a Poster will be due by November 15th (3 more classes to work on these projects) 

What to Work On:

• Unfinished work 
• Map out your time-- if you think you’re going to need a lot of time, work on projects at home 
• Tutorials- available in Google Classroom (if needed) 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Keep working on Cereal Box Design and Making a Poster 

What We Did:

• Cereal Box Design
• Adobe Illustrator tutorials
• Introduction to the next project- making a poster
• Cereal Box and Making a Poster will be due by November 15th (3 more classes to work on these projects) 

What to Work On:

• Unfinished work 
• Map out your time-- if you think you’re going to need a lot of time, work on projects at home 
• Tutorials- available in Google Classroom (if needed) 

What We Plan to Do Next Week: 

• Keep working on Cereal Box Design and Making a Poster