Thursday, January 9, 2025

Welcome Back to your world of Interactive Graphics!

 First - check out the interactive maps from your colleagues! 
**(IF YOU GET A 404 - MAKE YOUR MAP PUBLIC!)

Review and discuss your use of this tool, and the composition decisions made, as well as the choices of potential enhancements. 

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Second - prepare to shoot a staged "selfie" somewhere on campus - in a room, outside a building, in a hall, etc. that can contain enough interesting things to make an interactive map that reflects yoru personality, brand, and experiences.

Begin this process with a review of the Principles of Photography you discovered last term. (Find your blog post on new photos and notes from our videos.) Contribute to a GOOGLE DOC of Photography Principles HERE.

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Third - Ask AI to help you brainstorm other principles that apply specifically to taking selfies.

POST A BLOG ENTRY on this experiment!

Use a prompt similar to this one: "Please provide me with some basic photography principles that apply to taking quality selfies for use on a professional website."

Use these "Big 3" AI Platforms for input:

Post your thoughts on using these AI tools in a blog entry. Were they helpful? How so? Which did you prefer? Why? Did they give you new information? Was the information correct? Where did the info come from? How did you judge the AI-generated information? etc. Are there principles you can add to the Google doc list to help us take better selfies?

 

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Our Fall 2024 Websites!

 Our Colleagues' Websites:

Colleagues will verify links to social media on their websites and will register their most used platforms in the BrandYourself exercise.



Thursday, October 24, 2024

Lights, Camera, Headshots!

FIRST, Students will learn the basics of a "3-Light Kit Setup" for photography/videography by LIVE BLOGGING as the watch a brief instructional video.


THEN, they will then set up lights in the parlors and take headshots for social media.


AFTERWARDS, they will update their social media presence with the new photos, and double check all links in their website and social media.

Thursday, September 5, 2024

Brand Guides of the Stars

 

Well, Brand Guides of some famous and successful enterprises, at least...

In class, students will Choose Two Brand Guides to examine and analyze. They will observe 

  • key elements of the brand guide's content
  • overarching design components of the guide itself
  • stated requirements for use of branded materials
  • the VISION statement or PHILOSOPHY statement
  •  COMPONENTS the student wishes to incorporate in their own brand guide or style sheet

They will post their findings in their blog for class discussion, and will incorporate useful discoveries into their personal brand style sheet assignment.

Sample Brand Guides to review