Lab Supplies Graphic Design: These items will create your design portfolio.
1. At least 2 pencils 2. Blank paper minimum 25 sheets. 3. 8-10 sheet protectors 4. 1in 3 ring binder with (pockets optional) Course Objectives
Comprehensive Objectives – As a result of taking this class, you should be able to:
Grading I believe that every one of you is capable of receiving an A in my class, even if you’ve never worked on a computer before. I give lots of opportunities to improve sagging grades, including redos. How Will My Grade Be Calculated? Students’ grades will be based on:
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How Will Design Projects be Graded?
Whenever possible, I will provide rubrics for each design project that tell you what I expect for Exemplary, Proficient, Partially Proficient, and Incomplete work. I consider three main things in evaluating student’s design work:
Forum Participation (Class Discussion)
Forum Participation counts for 10% of your grade in class. You will be expected to participate in the class discussion and assignments. Here are some examples of discussion topics:
Behavior: What Are My Responsibilities?
Since everyone learns about design here, everyone is considered a designer. Get used to thinking of yourself that way! My job is to teach you professionalism in addition to design skills. Professionalism means being respectful to yourself and others around you, and behaving in an acceptable, predictable way.
How Will My Behavior in Class Affect My Grade?
Professional Conduct means good behavior and it is worth ten percent of your grade! Each student starts with 50 points per week. I’m assuming everyone is a “good kid.” If your behavior in class is a problem, it will reduce your Professional Conduct grade for the week. See the “Behavior” section below.
How Do I Make Up Missing or Incomplete Work?
You are expected to keep up with lessons and projects in class. Keep track of course assignments and due dates. Late or incomplete work can be turned in during the same Quarter for a reduced score. If the work is late due to an excused absence, you will have one extra school day per day of excused absence to complete it without a reduction in grade.
If your work is only partly complete by the due date, my advice is to turn in what you have so far. Then complete the remainder of the assignment. Please let me know as soon as you have submitted a late assignment. Otherwise I will not know to look for it.
Redos
If you receive a low grade on an assignment, you will have one chance to revise it for an improved grade. This will encourage you to master the subject. Please let me know as soon as you want to resubmit an assignment. There will not be redos on quizzes, and no Extra Credit opportunities it is important to do the work assigned.
What Do those 4 Rules Really Mean Day-to-Day?
Refer to the Student Handbook in your planner for school-wide rules and student management plan. We have design room rules too:
Here are some examples to show you what I mean. These are examples. Use your common sense when interpreting these rules.
If you have forgotten one of the school or design room rules, I will give you a verbal reminder. Willful, severe or repetitive poor behavior will result in one or more of the following consequences: Along the lines of the student behavior plan.
Academic Honesty
Cheating
If you cheat in my class there is an extremely good chance that I will catch you at it. Cheating means that a student is not completing an assignment quiz or project honestly and completely. It is cheating if you do the work for someone else, or if you give your files to him/her in some way after you have completed them. It is also cheating if you simply give someone the answers to a quiz, or if you read the answers off of someone else’s paper. It is not cheating if you help someone, but he/she must do all the actual work themselves. For example, completing tasks with the keyboard or mouse on someone else’s computer is cheating, not helping. Talking that student through it so that he/she does every step him/herself is helping. In other words, hands off!
Because they are usually both involved in the attempt to cheat, typically both the student doing the actual work and the student who did not do the work will be punished for cheating (see below).
Plagiarism
You will be asked to complete a number of short writing assignments in this class. These assignments must be written in your own words.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating in which a student directly copies words or unique ideas from other sources. Here are just a few of the forms that plagiarism takes:
Lying
Lying is not professional. It damages relationships. I give all my students my trust when the school year begins. If I catch you lying, I will be very disappointed. I will no longer trust you until you earn it back. I may also respond with a consequence.
Consequences
The consequences for cheating, lying or plagiarism will include one or more of the following:
Computer Policy
Consequences
If you fail to respect the computer policy, you will lose your access to a computer for that day. This means that if you are found using the computer for anything other than our assignments (and you have not been given “free time” as above), you will be asked to log off for the remainder of the period.
“Free Time” on the Computer
Students earn free time on the computers by maintaining a good grade and keeping up in class. You will be allowed free time on the computer only if you meet the following criteria:
Other Policies and Procedures
Tardies
I take attendance the moment I walk in the classroom; you are tardy if you are not seated in your assigned seat when I get to your name. I follow the designated tardy policy of the school. I will only excuse a tardy if you receive a written pass from another teacher that has the date and time written in ink. I will usually follow up with an email to verify the excuse. Forging a hall pass is lying and will result in appropriate consequences
Class Dismissal
I dismiss you from class, not the clock. Make sure you have cleaned up your area and returned any supplies to their storage containers, I will know that the class is ready when you are standing behind your chair quietly.
Respect will be first and foremost in the classroom. Reflect on Behavior.
What about My Freedom of Speech?
You do have the protection of the Constitution regarding free speech in most places in the United States. However, according to law, school is a special place. The Supreme Court has said that speech is not allowed that “materially and substantially” disrupts class. Any inflammatory speech against a group or individual will be considered disruptive to the learning environment.
Personal Electronics
Student Planners
Write all your assignments down in the student planner Each day. The agenda is available on the white board and (in the future) on the class Web site. I recommend you bring your planner every day because it contains important calendar events.
Hall Passes
You must ask, In order to have my permission to leave the classroom during class for the restroom, health office, or other reason. You will need to sign out in the log book and take the specified hall pass. Don’t ask for permission for a hall pass until I have taken attendance and I am done with instruction. If you abuse your restroom privilege, you will lose it for a period of time.
Your Health
If you are sick, please minimize your contact with other people in the classroom. Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough. The following health supplies will be provided throughout the year:
Classroom Decor
I like to put useful posters and student work on the walls. If you have additional ideas for how to decorate our design room, I’m all ears!
Food and Drinks
Okay:
Class Website Recourse: We will be using ideas from this website, but with alteration to fit our schedule and class. www.nhsdesigns.com Dawn Pedersen, created this website to make learning easier and more organized. Click on the course from the home page, and you will see a detailed academic calendar. Individual subjects are accessible through the right-hand sub menus. We will be creating our own website with links so that we can take advantage of the discussions of topics online and Gallery of student work.
Whenever possible, I will provide rubrics for each design project that tell you what I expect for Exemplary, Proficient, Partially Proficient, and Incomplete work. I consider three main things in evaluating student’s design work:
- Effort (visible in the work and/or demonstrated in class; spend quality time on your work!)
- Creativity (how original your work is)
- Following Directions (did you explore the assignment as given?)
Forum Participation (Class Discussion)
Forum Participation counts for 10% of your grade in class. You will be expected to participate in the class discussion and assignments. Here are some examples of discussion topics:
- Vocabulary Responses - prompt given regarding a new vocabulary term or concept
- Topics related to your lessons
- Project planning
Behavior: What Are My Responsibilities?
Since everyone learns about design here, everyone is considered a designer. Get used to thinking of yourself that way! My job is to teach you professionalism in addition to design skills. Professionalism means being respectful to yourself and others around you, and behaving in an acceptable, predictable way.
How Will My Behavior in Class Affect My Grade?
Professional Conduct means good behavior and it is worth ten percent of your grade! Each student starts with 50 points per week. I’m assuming everyone is a “good kid.” If your behavior in class is a problem, it will reduce your Professional Conduct grade for the week. See the “Behavior” section below.
How Do I Make Up Missing or Incomplete Work?
You are expected to keep up with lessons and projects in class. Keep track of course assignments and due dates. Late or incomplete work can be turned in during the same Quarter for a reduced score. If the work is late due to an excused absence, you will have one extra school day per day of excused absence to complete it without a reduction in grade.
If your work is only partly complete by the due date, my advice is to turn in what you have so far. Then complete the remainder of the assignment. Please let me know as soon as you have submitted a late assignment. Otherwise I will not know to look for it.
Redos
If you receive a low grade on an assignment, you will have one chance to revise it for an improved grade. This will encourage you to master the subject. Please let me know as soon as you want to resubmit an assignment. There will not be redos on quizzes, and no Extra Credit opportunities it is important to do the work assigned.
What Do those 4 Rules Really Mean Day-to-Day?
Refer to the Student Handbook in your planner for school-wide rules and student management plan. We have design room rules too:
Here are some examples to show you what I mean. These are examples. Use your common sense when interpreting these rules.
- Don’t prevent me from teaching.
- Don’t speak while I am instructing the class.
- Raise your hand if you wish to speak, and wait for me to call on you.
- Don’t interrupt when I am giving personal attention to another student.
- Don’t prevent others from learning.
- Don’t behave in a disruptive or distracting way.
- Don’t engage in lengthy off-topic conversations.
- Keep the volume of your voice down.
- No singing, rapping, or other disruptive noises.
- Be safe.
- Don’t throw, toss, flick, or roll anything across the table, floor, or classroom.
- Don’t roll across the classroom in your chair.
- Use classroom materials in a safe manner.
- Don’t behave in any way that threatens harm to anyone or our equipment.
- Keep things clean.
- Clean up after yourself so your station is ready for the next student.
- Return classroom materials to the proper storage place.
- Don’t eat messy things that can leave residue on the computers.
- Keep your language clean.
If you have forgotten one of the school or design room rules, I will give you a verbal reminder. Willful, severe or repetitive poor behavior will result in one or more of the following consequences: Along the lines of the student behavior plan.
Academic Honesty
Cheating
If you cheat in my class there is an extremely good chance that I will catch you at it. Cheating means that a student is not completing an assignment quiz or project honestly and completely. It is cheating if you do the work for someone else, or if you give your files to him/her in some way after you have completed them. It is also cheating if you simply give someone the answers to a quiz, or if you read the answers off of someone else’s paper. It is not cheating if you help someone, but he/she must do all the actual work themselves. For example, completing tasks with the keyboard or mouse on someone else’s computer is cheating, not helping. Talking that student through it so that he/she does every step him/herself is helping. In other words, hands off!
Because they are usually both involved in the attempt to cheat, typically both the student doing the actual work and the student who did not do the work will be punished for cheating (see below).
Plagiarism
You will be asked to complete a number of short writing assignments in this class. These assignments must be written in your own words.
Plagiarism is a form of cheating in which a student directly copies words or unique ideas from other sources. Here are just a few of the forms that plagiarism takes:
- It is plagiarism to copy an entire encyclopedia entry.
- It is plagiarism to copy an entire paragraph from a Web site.
- It is plagiarism to steal copy the design that another person has created for the Web or for print.
- It is plagiarism to copy what another student has written in his/her notebook or essay.
Lying
Lying is not professional. It damages relationships. I give all my students my trust when the school year begins. If I catch you lying, I will be very disappointed. I will no longer trust you until you earn it back. I may also respond with a consequence.
Consequences
The consequences for cheating, lying or plagiarism will include one or more of the following:
- A zero on that assignment for all parties involved. There will be no opportunity to change this assignment grade at a later time.
- A call or email home to the students’ guardians.
- A referral to a counselor or Vice Principal/ Principal
Computer Policy
- Computers in this lab are for work for this class only.
- Exceptions to this policy may be made only with my permission on that specific day.
- You may not touch any part of another student’s computer without my permission.
- Don’t eat or drink over the computer/keyboard, or touch them with messy fingers.
Consequences
If you fail to respect the computer policy, you will lose your access to a computer for that day. This means that if you are found using the computer for anything other than our assignments (and you have not been given “free time” as above), you will be asked to log off for the remainder of the period.
“Free Time” on the Computer
Students earn free time on the computers by maintaining a good grade and keeping up in class. You will be allowed free time on the computer only if you meet the following criteria:
- You have asked for and received my permission, You have completed that day’s task.
- You have an A in the class – OR – you have completed all assignments so far in the semester.
Other Policies and Procedures
Tardies
I take attendance the moment I walk in the classroom; you are tardy if you are not seated in your assigned seat when I get to your name. I follow the designated tardy policy of the school. I will only excuse a tardy if you receive a written pass from another teacher that has the date and time written in ink. I will usually follow up with an email to verify the excuse. Forging a hall pass is lying and will result in appropriate consequences
Class Dismissal
I dismiss you from class, not the clock. Make sure you have cleaned up your area and returned any supplies to their storage containers, I will know that the class is ready when you are standing behind your chair quietly.
Respect will be first and foremost in the classroom. Reflect on Behavior.
What about My Freedom of Speech?
You do have the protection of the Constitution regarding free speech in most places in the United States. However, according to law, school is a special place. The Supreme Court has said that speech is not allowed that “materially and substantially” disrupts class. Any inflammatory speech against a group or individual will be considered disruptive to the learning environment.
Personal Electronics
- Cell phones are never allowed in any classroom at BMS. If you have a phone in my class you will be sent to your locker and assigned detention according to the school policy. No exclusions.
- Cameras may be used in the classroom with my permission.
- MP3 players are not allowed in class.
Student Planners
Write all your assignments down in the student planner Each day. The agenda is available on the white board and (in the future) on the class Web site. I recommend you bring your planner every day because it contains important calendar events.
Hall Passes
You must ask, In order to have my permission to leave the classroom during class for the restroom, health office, or other reason. You will need to sign out in the log book and take the specified hall pass. Don’t ask for permission for a hall pass until I have taken attendance and I am done with instruction. If you abuse your restroom privilege, you will lose it for a period of time.
Your Health
If you are sick, please minimize your contact with other people in the classroom. Cover your mouth when you sneeze or cough. The following health supplies will be provided throughout the year:
- Band-Aids
- Tissues
- Hand Sanitizer
Classroom Decor
I like to put useful posters and student work on the walls. If you have additional ideas for how to decorate our design room, I’m all ears!
Food and Drinks
Okay:
- Beverages in screw-cap containers.
- Beverages in cups, cans or cartons without a screw-cap.
- Messy foods – especially Cheetos!
- Food or drinks consumed over the keyboard or other part of the computer.
- Trash on floors or desks – clean it up!
- NO GUM!
Class Website Recourse: We will be using ideas from this website, but with alteration to fit our schedule and class. www.nhsdesigns.com Dawn Pedersen, created this website to make learning easier and more organized. Click on the course from the home page, and you will see a detailed academic calendar. Individual subjects are accessible through the right-hand sub menus. We will be creating our own website with links so that we can take advantage of the discussions of topics online and Gallery of student work.
Students make sure the complete the Syllabus Quiz when you have finished.
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Parents make sure to complete the Contract Agreement when you have finished.
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