This game gives design students an opportunity to interact with a color wheel and uses the vocabulary words hue, saturation, complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic.

This Graphic Design 1 curriculum is a comprehensive semester long course in digital media that uses Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. I started updating this curriculum in the Spring of 2018 and so, if you access the UPDATED GD 1 Curriculum, you will see the most recent additions to my course and have access to all my teaching materials including presentations, lesson plans, video tutorials, student examples, self evaluations and rubrics. Anything highlighted in yellow is in development. Check back often for updates and don't hesitate to message me if you are looking for something specific. Thanks for checking this out!

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Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop and Illustrator)

In this lesson students will learn how to use some basic selection tools, layer panel and tools, transformation tools, some basic shortcuts to create a mandala from a single photograph  as they  learn to use Adobe Photoshop

This lesson is created and intended for a photography or digital media course at the 7-9 grade level. This lesson teaches students about composition techniques to help improve their photographic compositions. This lesson is interactive, using Nearpod Presentations to teach the main concept.

This lesson leads students through the historical origin of motion-pictures to creating their own stop-motion video. They will plan, shoot, and edit a stop-motion video that consists of 100 photographic frames.