i have developed an outline for workshops and courses about how social media works, what to use, and how to start (for students, staff and faculty)

• Blogging, and microblogging (twitter)
• Viral marketing which includes podcasts (audio and video)
• Professional online networking and development tools like LinkedIn.

Effective teaching of creative curriculum requires a combination of helping a student to reach specific goals, while identifying strengths and weaknesses, and encouraging the student to maximize their own learning capacity.  As an artist, student, and teacher, I recognize the importance of creating meaningful bodies of work in tandem with developing skills from a depth and breath of art practices.

Technologically there are both demands and opportunities for the artist to present their work. My experience is that many students need to develop their technical and collaborative skills, and so my classes include group projects, implementing blogs for the development and remote management of ideas and as a presentation vehicle for documenting their artworks. I have structured these group assignments so the students benefits from both positive public speaking experiences and the working example of effective collaboration.

I look forward to working with the student in an online environment, either wholly in the form of online classes, and as hybrid courses where student use technology to communicate ideas and share artwork. These new learning practices provide the student a rich introduction to the more complex environments expected from today's graduates.

textbooks
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson
Launching the Imagination - 2D by Mary Stewart

Students will be introduced to the language of visual arts. Through a series of collage, drawing, photography, and painting exercises students will then develop projects based on the elements (color, space, line, texture, shape and value) and principals (composition, rhythm, unity, scale, density, emphasis, and figure/ground) of design. Class critiques will focus on correct terminology and what was learned as a result of the project. Students will complete the class with their own polished catalog of reference works.

Students will use digital and analog tools in this introduction to typography, and the principals of layout and design for both print and the Internet. Students will use PhotoShop, Illustrator, and In Design extensively in their assignments, which will include: Copy that Ad, Collage to Print, Design that User Interface (website), and a final collaborative project culminating in a physical or virtual catalog.

textbooks:
Sculpture: a basic handbook for students (third ed.) by Ronald L Coleman
In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art by Linda Weintraub

Students will be introduced to the language of visual arts in the context of traditional sculpture, as well as conceptual, installation, and inter-media arts. Students will develop skills working with tools, learning new processes, and negotiating various materials. Students will focus on the conceptual framework of their artworks, and will create collaborative performances or installations. Using the language of visual arts, students will contribute online to the class blog discussions about various artists, articles, and material covered in class. Class critiques will focus on how the work has been situated in terms of shaping its context.

textbooks:
Sculpture: a basic handbook for students (third ed.) by Ronald L Coleman
Anatomy for the artist by Sarah Simblet

Students will become familiar with tools and practices used for subtractive and additive methods of sculpture.  All students will begin the class with safety training, and the location and purpose of tools.

Introductory and beginning students will create coil projects in clay, which will be fired and glazed, students will then cast multiples in plaster. Carving exercises will start with soap and linoleum, and work up to harder materials like wood and stone.

By the second week of class intermediate and advanced students will verbally propose projects. Additionally they will supply a written detailed plan and budget of the planned projects.

Students will finish (paints, burnishing, etc) and mount their works for presentation and critiques. Students will document and post their works on the class blog.

Textbooks:
The Better Photo Guide to Exposure by Sean Arbabi
The Photographer's Eye: Composition and Design for Better Digital Photos by Michael Freeman

In this introductory studio course the student will become familiar with the digital camera’s functions, understand the relationship between aperture and shutter, learn to light the subject rather than relying on the flash, predetermine composition strategies, and plan the shoot. From raw files students will develop a portfolio of works for print and the Internet using PhotoShop. Assignments are designed to challenge the students, both technically and artistically. Students will contribute to the class blog on topics gleaned from the class lectures, group readings, and discoveries and milestones.

Textbooks:
Digital Art by Christiane Paul
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design by Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg

This survey course will introduce students to digital technologies as both a tool and as a medium. Students will explore the history of process arts, and video in the context of exhibition. Additionally students and their collaborative groups will develop digital art projects using available technologies and existing skills,

Textbooks:
Digital Filmmaking 101, second edition, by Dale Newton and John Gaspard
Film, an Introduction by William Phillips
Story: Substance, Structure, Style The Principles of Screen writing by Robert Mckee

On the technical side students will learn how: to operate a digital video camera, apply the basics of cinematography to their video shoots, plan and set up lighting, transfer data from the camera to the computer, and basic editing techniques using IMovie or Final Cut Express. Advanced students will be encouraged to use pro tools. Students will be introduced to script development, story boarding, and the workflow within pre-production, production, and postproduction. Groups will present their final projects in a class festival of “short shorts”.

Textbooks:
Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy And Culture by stanley J Baran
Internet Surf and Turf-Revealed: The Essential Guide to Copyright, Fair Use, and Finding Media by barbara waxer and marsha baum

in This survey class students will be introduces to the history of mass media (TV, radio, newspapers, and the Internet). students will study ethics, and legal issues relating to fair use, copyright and the first amendment. In collaborative groups students will conduct ethnographic research and present their findings to the class.
Scrum organization will be introduced as a method for successful collaboration.

Textbooks:
Freedom of the Press: The First Amendment: Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate by Garrett Epps (Editor), and David B. Oppenheimer
Media, Profit, and Politics: Competing Priorities in an Open Society by Kent State University Symposium on Democracy and Joseph Harper and Thom Yantek

students will apply lecture materials to group discussion, and perform appropriate field research. topics will focus on: authorship in the digital age, types of media, and journalistic integrity. in collaborative groups students will perform case studies involving sensational news and present their study to the class. In addition the STudent collective will create a prototype for a newspaper with editorial, and advertising, and including a description of the newspaper and its distribution model. two papers will be assigned: Mass communications in the last decade... and transparencies in editorial Bias and profit sources

Textbooks:
Careers in Technical Theater by Mike Lawler
Technical Theater for non-technical People by Drew Cambell

This survey class will introduce theater students to terminology, contemporary and historic technical issues, the roles in the theater, stage design principles, and basic lighting schematics. The students will develop their own script, and stage design. Collaboratively students will draw on their own interests in the creation of their own productions involving script development, lighting, props, costumes, and sound in their overall set design.
Scrum organization will be introduced.

textbook:
Creativity for Life: Practical Advice by Eric Maisel

Students will develop their portfolio, CV, website, artist statement, various length biographies, investigate graduate programs, and venues for representation. Additionally, students will work in pairs to produce a presentation about the artist gallery relationship. Additionally students will post summaries to the class blog of projects and readings.

Textbooks:
New Media in the White Cube and Beyond by Christiane Paul
Museum Basics, second edition by Timothy Ambrose and Crispin Paine

Students will be introduced to curatorial standards regarding display and exhibition, preservation, documentation, shipping, and storage. Students will present to the class their research on one exhibition of historical significance. Additionally students will post summaries to the class blog.

Textbooks:
A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication by richard harris
Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches, Contexts by David Barlow and Brett Mills
suggested: A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Brian Massumi

students will explore critical essays on the relationship between culture, and media. In addition students will work in collaborative groups and from a select topics list, conduct ethnographic research, which will be presented to the class in the form of oral and written reports, video shorts, power point presentations, and blog entries. note: If taught as a writing proficiency class students will write papers as per the school's requirements.
Scrum organization will be introduced as a method for successful collaboration.

Textbooks:
New Media in Art by Michael Rush
Art of the Digital Age by Bruce Wands
The Best of Make by O’Reily

This advanced studio course will focus on the exhibition of a new media installation either as a collaborative or individual project. Projects will include a mix of any of the following; video, sound art, print, animation, sculpture, software/hardware projects can include (MAX/MSP/Jitter, Open Source and Arduino, and performance. Students may opt to develop a technical prototype instead of a full installation.

Textbooks:
Complete Guide to High Dynamic Range Digital Photography by Ferrel McCollough
Light: Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting  by Fil Hunter

In this advanced studio course the student will the gain full control over the camera, and ultimately the medium. Assignments are designed to challenge the students, both technically and artistically. Students will learn to quickly calibrate their camera settings for various conditions, develop lighting diagrams, plan and prepare for shooting on location, and finally shoot their subjects on location.  Students will be introduced to HDR photography. From raw files students will develop a portfolio of advanced works for print and the Internet using PhotoShop and Illustrator.

Textbooks:
All students: Dreamweaver CS4 Digital Classroom by Jeremy Osborn
Beginning students: Stylin’ with CSS: A Designer’s Guide by Charles Wyke-Smith and
Advanced: Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) by Jefferey Zeldman (release July 09)

This course is developed for students new to web design, and  those with existing skills. New students will learn the fundamentals of HTML, XHTML, and CSS before moving into Dreamweaver exercises. Advanced students will start in Dreamweaver. All students will create a ten page website, with images, video, forms created using Cascading Style Sheets. Beyond the mechanics, students will develop a visually polished and intuitive user interface.

Textbooks:
Digital Compositing for Film and Video by Steve Wright,
Mastering Digital Audio and Production by Cliff Truesdell

Students will use pro tools (final cut studio, color, soundtrack pro) to develop portfolio samples of their works involving layers and masks, green screen techniques, animation, CGI effects, color correction, text and logos, and sound. Students will post their final projects to the class blog.

Note: When the courses Advanced Video – Post Production: Sound and Compositing and Advanced Video – Cinematography Studio are offered concurrently students will be encouraged to further the quality of their finished projects by working together.
Scrum organization will be introduced as a method for successful collaboration.

Textbooks:
Film, an Introduction by William Phillips
Exposure and Lighting by Michael Meadra and Charlotte K. Lowrie

Students will produce portfolio quality samples expressing the visual aesthetic of their work. Students will create still images to accompany their video pieces.

Note: When the courses Advanced Video – Post Production: Sound and Compositing and Advanced Video – Cinematography Studio are offered concurrently students will be encouraged to further the quality of their finished projects by working together.

Textbook:
Story: Substance, Structure, Style The Principles of Screen writing by Robert Mckee
The Perfect Pitch by Ken Rotcop
The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trotter

Students will develop a script for television using the free online script editor celtx. Students will research suitable agents, develop a marketing plan, and deliver the short and long pitch to the class for critique. Students will present to the class on the topics: contracts law for screenwriters, marketing, the pitch, and the screenwriter’s guild.