El Camino High School's Digital Media Pathway is a series of career technical education (CTE) classes that focus on digital media arts. The program features graphic design (marketing and advertising through images that have been digitally produced and enhanced), and web design (production of online content aimed at selling or promoting products or services).

The sequence of courses forms what's called a "pathway" which, when completed, shows you how to become a freelance designer capable of starting your own business or working at a professional design agency. Either way, it has the potential to start you on a very successful and lucrative career.

Grading Policy

Each assignment has clear expectations and a defined due date. If the student does not turn in the assignment by that date, the highest possible grade that you could get on that assignment goes down one letter grade each business day. If a student has excused absences for days that we worked on the project in class, they have that many days to make up the assignment with no penalty.

For example: If something is due on a Thursday and you turn it in on a Monday, the best you can get on it is a "C" because it is two business days late (weekends don't count).

If you are missing an assignment and believe that you already completed it, it is your responsibility to contact me via email (aaron.grable@oside.us) to get that fixed.

Google classroom is a useful tool for organizing your classes, viewing your assignments, interacting with each other and the teacher and turning in your work digitally. The district gives you unlimited space on their Google Drive but that goes away after your senior year. At that time, you'll need to find a way to migrate your information to your own Google Drive if you want to keep it.

This is the process for working with Google Classroom:

1. Make sure you're logged in to your school Google Drive.
2. Click on the green Google Classroom to the left or click here
3. Sign in, using your school email (your student ID plus "@oside.us")
4. Your password is your eight-digit birthdate (for example, January 1st, 2022 would be 01012022)
5. Sign up for classes using the codes I give you in class.
6. Use this portal to view, complete and turn in assignments

Success tip: go to your student calendar (while logged in as a student) by clicking here and you'll see all your due dates for all your Classroom classes!

Note: If you don't plan on checking your district email (yourstudentid@oside.us), you should set it up so those emails forward to your personal account.

Schedule for Graphic Design:

(year-to-date schedule here, district schedule here, bell schedule here)

Portfolio: addresses here, form to submit your address here.

Links to your files: 1st, 5th, 6th

Short for the week: Service Apres Vie (Afterlife Service)

3/31: Not feeling well, taking the day. Look at the comments on the stream for Google Classroom. I'm going to be monitoring things from home and giving comments on your presentation (that was due Friday). Get that in so we can finish up presenting when I get back.

4/1: I'm back! More presentations, work on logo revisions. Tutorial on most common suggestions which are fonts and balance. You know how to get an exciting font, but how can we use it?

4/2: Preparing our Clothing Line Deliverable (see assignment folder). This is what it would look like if you delivered it to a client or a printer. Download the ".ai" file and use that exact format. No other format accepted.

4/3: Creating your blog entry (AI allowed but re-typing required) to document the process. Intro roadmap to finishing our blog.

4/4: Clothing Line Deliverable due as PDF. Blog check (using your blog address).

After Spring Break, we're going to dive in to getting your portfolio ready to be submitted and reviewed. Everyone is required to do this. The schedule for how we're going to get this done is here.

Testing schedule for 4/17-4/25 here.

Please note: anyone who finishes their assignment is required to continue working on something (a) productive and (b) relevant to web or graphic design. You will lose one point for every class period that you don't.

Schedule for Web Design:

(year-to-date schedule here, district schedule here, bell schedule here)

Portfolio: addresses here, form to submit your address here.

Links to your files: 3rd, 4th

Link to Business Contact Tracker HERE

Create your goals each week here and see the ongoing results here.

Short for the week: Service Apres Vie (Afterlife Service)

3/31: Not feeling well. Taking the day. Your activity for today is going to be creating a "collision detection". Lesson is here.

4/1: Today we will learn how to keep score in our game! The longer you stay alive, the higher your score will go. Lesson is here.

4/2: Today we’ll make a real Game Over screen that shows up when the player gets hit. We’ll also add a Restart button so you can play again! Lesson is here.

4/3: Today we’ll make our games look better, feel more exciting, and get harder over time. This is your chance to add your own style and final touches before we play tomorrow. Lesson is here.

4/4: Today we’ll play each other’s games, give feedback, and reflect on what we learned while making them. This is your chance to show off your creativity and coding! Lesson is here.

After Spring Break, we're going to dive in to getting your portfolio ready to be submitted and reviewed. Everyone is required to do this. The schedule for how we're going to get this done is here.

Testing schedule for 4/17-4/25 here.

Please note: anyone who finishes their assignment is required to continue working on something (a) productive and (b) relevant to web or graphic design. You will lose one point for every class period that you don't.

Resources:

• Assignment folder here
• Business contact tracker here
• Portfolio address/progress reports here
• Web Design syllabus and outline
• Click here if you need your work from previous years
• Link to ECHS vector here
• Folders for website #2: p3g1, p3g2, p3g3, p3g4, p3g6, p4g1, p4g2, p4g3, p4g4, p4g5, p4g6, p4g7