Week 2 Self Portrait:
- Check-in, follow-up from last week
- Intro to Moodle site
Publishing on the Web
- Why create a personal web presence? Do I exist if I don’t have a web site?
- What is a blog?
- Review blog examples
WordPress techniques
- Review from last week
- Theme-ing your blog
- Intro to html
6:40 – student presentations
–7pm Break–
Digital Still Camera workshop:
- Article: Self Portrait Digital Photography (everyone is a photographer)
- Intro to digital point and shoot cameras
- Composition, rule of thirds
- Exposure, depth of field, shutter speed
- Links to resources:
Intro to digital imaging with Photoshop:
- Scanning and image resolution (print, web and moving image)
- Photoshop basics, workspace, selections, layers, save for web
- In class activity: create a self-portrait collage and a banner image for your blog
WordPress: Post images to blog site
Assignment Due Week 3:
- Create a visual self portrait using a series of still images, or a single image utilizing Photoshop manipulations/collage techniques. Post completed work on blog.
- Complete both readings for week two that include In/Sights: Self-Portrait by Women, and Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves
