One of the newest additions to the curriculum at Greensburg Community Schools is giving students new opportunities and in some cases shaping the course of their careers.
The new class is called Digital Media, which is also the newest addition to the list of Dual Credit courses available through Ivy Tech obtainable by local high school students. Those credits will transfer to many other colleges in Indiana when the time comes for the students.
As part of their studies in the course, the Digital Media classes recently took a field trip to tour the Visual Communications Department at Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus. On display were the works of Mark Searles, a current instructor at ITCC. He has designed poster and other marketing products for various rock bands and other clients.
According to art instructor and College Cooperative coordinator Beverly Wilson, the Digital Design class is based on Indiana Academic Standards for Visual Arts. Students in digital design engage in sequential learning experiences that encompass art history, art criticism, aesthetics and production and lead to the creation of portfolio quality works. The kids create print media utilizing graphic design, typography, illustration and image creation with digital tools and computer technology. They incorporate desktop publishing, multimedia, digitized imagery, computer animation and web design into their work.
Some of the students are taking their digital designs a step further. Sarah Herbert has designed the yearbook cover for the forthcoming edition and recently found out that she has received a $9,000 per year scholarship to study visual communications at Heron School of Art. Greensburg student Danielle Keillor will be utilizing her digital design skills to lay out the cover of the high school agenda book for next year as well. From now on, the cover of the Greensburg Community High School yearbook will be designed by a senior in the digital design class while the agenda cover will be designed by a junior in the course. Other works by the students can be found as images and animations on the school’s Website as well as in brochures, videos and in books they have published.
“The kids are excelling at this,” Beverly Wilson explained. “It opens up a whole new field for them. It’s good to see the kids getting excited about the visual arts.”
When the digital design class kicked off, eight students signed up for the first semester. Since then, the class has almost tripled in size.
“The interest is there on the kids’ part,” Wilson said. “The kids soak it up so quickly.”
In the future, more of the dual credits could be offered to the digital design students. According to Wilson, a few of her students have even changed their majors in college as a result of their experiences with the class.
“One class has changed the career path for a lot of these kids,” Wilson said.
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