Dawn's Brain - The adventures of a high school web design and graphic design teacher.

Notes for next year’s syllabus: Cheating

Dawn — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:04:57 +0000

I have caught a surprising number of students cheating in both my graphic design and Web design classes. Students have found a variety of methods of accomplishing this. Some are really obvious and some not so, but they all rely on an assumption that I am not paying close attention. So this is a warning going into next year’s syllabus:

CHEATING

If you cheat in my class there is an extremely good chance that you will be caught.

Cheating means that a student is not completing an assignment, quiz or test honestly and completely on his/her own. 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.

The consequences for cheating 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.

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Designing a Magazine Cover

Dawn — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:47:52 +0000

I had some truly fantastic results from my recent Photoshop project. Students were to invent their own magazines and design the covers. I had them do thumbnail sketches first. However, many of the students did them last - so next time I will have a separate, earlier deadline for the thumbnails.

Lesson details

Gallery

We’re Engaged!

Dawn — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:43:19 +0000

33 awesome body enhancement photoshop tutorials

Dawn — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:53:34 +0000

33 awesome body enhancement photoshop tutorials, from photoshoptalent.com.

This is a great tutorial resource for students or professionals would to digitally tweak faces and bodily imperfections. The linked page is a collection of links, image previews and brief descriptions for all of these fine tutorials around the Web:

Eyes
Enhancing Iris Color
Eye Shadow / Eyeliner
Make eyelashes thicker
Shadowy, Sultry Eyes
Apply Eye Make-up
Add an Eyebrow Piercing to a Photo
Using The Red Eye Tool Non-Destructively
Replace Eye Color

Hair
Changing Hair Color
Phoenix hair effect
Shining hair
Removing Hair Roots
Color hair locks

Teeth
Whiten and Brighten Teeth
You are a Good Dentist
Whitening Teeth the Professional Way

Skin
How to get perfect skin
Retouch Yellow Skin
Professional Skin Smoothing
How to smooth a skin
Makeup makeover
Airbrushing - Natural Smooth Skin
Removing Freckles

Body
Eliminate Cellulite
Trimming weight off with the Liquify tool
Removing Love Handles

Nails
Manipulating nails by increasing length & changing shade
Longer Nails

Nose
Easy Digital Nose Job
Smaller Nose
Digital Nip Tuck

Latest student work

Dawn — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:50:30 +0000

I’m working on my Master’s now, and time is short, so updates are much harder to make.

I did want to pop in and link to my new Photoshop student gallery. This features work done by my graphic design students. I’ve just started uploading their files, and there are many many files. I hope to have everything up by next weekend.

You can also get a look at Web sites designed by my Web design students.