Workbook Week6

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DUNEDIN SCHOOL OF ART

VISUAL ARTS CORE STUDIO 1 D.I.G.I.T.A.L. L.I.T.E.R.A.C.Y

DIGITAL LITERACY WORKBOOK

Wk Lecture Outline Lab Topic Checkpoint

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23rd

Mar

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.

Word Processing,

Referencing &

Researching:

Microsoft Word

(2007

version)/tables/form

atting/saving(esp.

file

formats)/converting

to pdfs

- presenting

research on blogs

Using the WYSiWYG

interface to edit text

in blog

-Students should

post their

READING

RESPONSE from

Art History and

Theory submission

(28th March) in a

blog post.

-Students should

also UPLOAD

THEIR RESPONSE

AS A PDF FILE to

their blog

-For Art History

and Theoryrequirements

students must

submit their

reading response

on AH&T moodle

site by 28th

March

Microsoft Word is one text editing software programme. Have a look at some of the

others that were in the lecture, and name another two that you think you may use:

iWork

Adobe Buzzword

What referencing style do you need to use to hand in your School of Art written work?

Chicago manual style referencing

And where will you find information on how to reference using it?

moodle, back of art history and theory course book.

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RESEARCHING: Please do the following exercise from Digital Foundations:

Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Suite by xtine

burrough and Michael Mandiberg

http://www.wiki.digital-foundations.net/index.php?title=Chapter_2_Sandbox

The Exercise is available at the above link and is cited thus: Digital Foundations: Intro to Media Design

with the Adobe Creative Suite is published by New Riders/AIGA Design Press, and licensed under a

Creative Commons (CC+ BY-NC-SA) license. This is the first Creative Commons contract issued by New

Riders, their parent Peachpit, their grandparent company Pearson, or their great-grandparent

company Prentice Hall.

1.1.1. Exercise 1: Advanced searching in Google

1. Open Google Image Search (http://images.google.com) in a web browser.

2. Type the word Bauhaus into the search

field and click the Search Images button. The

search engine will return all images related to

the word Bauhaus.

3. Filter your results by file size. Click on the pull-down menu next to the words Show options

near the top of the search results page. You can choose from a range of small to extra large images.

Select Large images and release the menu. The page will reload showing only images larger than

600x800 pixels and smaller than 1200x1600 pixels. (Pixels are the basic units of image display on

screen.)





The Bauhaus was a revolutionary arts and design

school that operated in Germany from 1919 to

1933. The Bauhaus defined arts education for the

20th century and beyond. You will learn more

about the Bauhaus throughout this book.

Note: This books examples were created with

Firefox and Safari, two free browsers you can

download. We recommend you use one of thesebrowsers to follow our tutorials; other browsers,

such as Internet Explorer, may have slightly

altered interfaces.

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4. Expect errors! Nearly every search result produces errors. Sometimes errors follow a pattern

that can be identified and excluded from the search query. In this case, your results are likely to

include images of the 1980s band Bauhaus. Add the word band to the search field preceded by

a minus sign (-band) to remove results for the band.

5. Results can be limited by searching for a specific phrase. To search by a phrase, enclose the

words in quotes. A search for Bauhaus Dessau should result in mostly images related to the

Bauhaus at Dessau. Dessau, Germany was the location of the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1932. When

you put quotes around your search phrase, Google looks for web pages where that exact phrase

appears. Without quotes, Google simply looks for pages where those words both occur, whether

they appear together or not. Make sure to reset your image size to All image sizes to see the

maximum number of search results.

6. The more specific your keywords are, the better your results will be. If you are looking for

images of any of Marcel Breuers steel tubular chairs, try Marcel Breuer steel chair as your

search term. But if you are looking for an image of Marcel Breuers famous Wassily armchair, try

Marcel Breuer Wassily chair as your search term. You could further refine that search by adding

any of the following keywords: original, leather, canvas, brown, black. If you want to find an

original Marcel Breuer Wassily chair in black, you can type Marcel Breuer black original.

7. Click on one of the images from your search to bring up the Image Results page.

8. Click on the See full-size image link to load the full resolution image in its own window.





Advanced Image Search will give you control

over additional parameters, such as file type,

color mode, and usage rights.

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9. Download the file by dragging it to your desktop, choosing Save from the File menu, right-

clicking the image with a two-button mouse or Control-clicking with a one-button mouse, and

choosing Save Image As. Save the file on your hard drive so that it will be easy to locate (the

desktop or documents folders are typical storage locations for short working sessions).

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DIGITAL LITERACY CHECKPOINT:

In conjunction with Art History & Theory (VA502001): Assignment 1

Assignment 1 will be given to you in Art History and Theory on Monday 28th

March. It will subsequently need to be submitted to the Art History and

Theory Moodle drop box.

For THIS paper (Digital Literacy) you should use the SAME assignment and

also post it to your blog once it has been completed for Art History and

Theory:

Start a new post

Cut and Paste your assignment text into the blog and format using

the text editor

insert/upload your image





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Make any relevant internet links

ALSO, upload a pdf version of your assignment to the same blog post

Tag/categorise/label your post appropriately

Open a new document in Microsoft Word to create your Reading

Assignment.

You should insert, use the following at some point in your document:

-A table (Play around with borders you can make borders invisible, but they will

still neatly arrange your text)

-Fonts and sizes (Good graphic design often uses more than one font and font size,usually ones that are dissimilar, for emphasis.)

-Insert an image (Try different ways to layout your image in the document.)

-At least two references/citations in your discussion of the work in relation to

iconographies.

SAVE this document as a.doc file and as a pdf (hint go to the Acrobat Tab in MS

Word.)

Write down the names of your files here:

Now, go to your BLOG, and start a new post for the same Reading

Assignment.

See the checkpoint box on the previous page for details.

*the CONTENT of this work will be assessed for Art History and

Theory (DEADLINE 28th March).

Only the blog post, as an assessment in terms of your technical

ability will be assessmed as part ofDigital Literacy(At the end

of the Course).

Blog Consolidation:Also this week, you should continue to develop your working knowledge of your blog

and ensure you have done all the required posts on your new blog, from last week. If you have not already, please upload your photoshop assignment from week2.





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Find a relevant video and make a link so that your video is embedded in yourblog.

o Write a short bit of information on the video and why it is relevant.





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