Digital Animation
Course
Overview
Students enrolled in Digital Animation
envision and complete projects that introduce and reinforce creative thinking strategies.
Working primarily in Adobe Animate, students create original animations that require careful observations of the world around them.
How do timing, gravity, and spacial relationships work in the "real world"?
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How might an artists convinsingly translate these phenomena into an animation?
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For more information about the course, review the Course Syllabus.
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Student
Websites
Over the course of the semester, students document their growth and progress by building an online portfolio in the form of a website.
Their websites are artifacts that illustrate growing proficiency in using digital media to both create and present original works of art.
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Instructional Practice Resources
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Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/
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Educational Leadership: http://www.ascd.org/
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Project Zero: http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
Classroom
Culture
In the digital studio classroom, I aim to create learning experiences and environments that help students feel seen, heard, and known. Here are some of the ways I try to create a student-centered culture:
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Support students in building positive and supportive relationships, both with me and with one another
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Encourage students to ask for help and to share ideas with me and their peers
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Embed opportunities for customization and student choice within the learning process
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Create curriculum, procedures and routines that encourage students to find, practice and share their voice
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Work with students to create a space that feels “student-centered”, “comfortable”, and “full of inspiration to be creative”
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Design a classroom space that feels safe and comfortable for students to express themselves and advocate for their success
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Encourage students to be compassionate and inspire them to be creative (help them to see the connection between those two spaces: compassion and creativity)