Welcome to Graphic Arts
&
Motion Graphics
Web Information
• My Website
http://stockdale.kernhigh.org/SubWebs/
departments/graphicArts/
• My Email address
matthew_dills@khsd.k12.ca.us
• Stockdale High School Homepage
• www.kernhigh.org/stockdale/
Class Requirements
• 1. Mechanical Pencil - .7 mm
One will be provided- additional pencils
can be purchased in the student store
- no pens allowed
2. A 3 Ring Binder and sheet protectors
All assignments
Handouts
Notes
• 3(OPTIONAL) Artists Sketchbook
What additional supplies will be
helpful
• .7mm lead
• Jump Drive
• Digital Camera
Misc.
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- No Music Players
- Cell Phone Policy
- Internet Permission/ Computer AUP
- Don’t get discouraged if you are not a
good hand artist.
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Visual and Performance Arts Credit
U.C. and Cal. State
• Articulated Credit with BC
Misc.
• - No new seats will be given for the
entire year. Do not ask ! ! !
• - Never say you don’t have anything to
do- This class is like a workplace
environment. If you don’t have
something to do find something.
• 7th period put up all chairs
Attendance and Tardy Policy
• You need to be in your seat when the bell
rings, no exceptions. If you are almost in
your seat when the bell rings, you are not
almost late, you are late.
• I will read through the roll sheet and call
your name out loud. Please raise your
hand as I call your name.
Participation Points
• 10% of your grade is based on
participation. Participation in class
includes but is not limited to:
• Being on time
• Listening
• Contributing to class discussions
• Not being disruptive during class
• Work until the bell rings
How to lose your participation points
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Come to class late
Don’t work the entire period
Send or receive email w/o permission
Play Computer Games
Interrupt during lecture w/o raising your
hand.
Use a Cell phone during class
Tardies Policy
• Detention will be assigned on your 1st
Tardy. See the official Stockdale High
School Tardy Policy.
Cut Policy
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#1
#2
#3
#4
= Parents contacted
= Saturday Work
= School probation
= Saturday School
Cut Policy
• #5 = Community Service
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& $25.00 fine
• #6 = $285.00 fine &
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no drivers license until 18
• #7 = Put in Opportunity or
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Independent Study
Grading
Grading will be done on a 5 point scale. 5
will be the highest and 1 the lowest. 0 will
represent projects that were not turned in.
5-A
4-B
3-C
2-D
1-F
0-Not turned in
Lab Rules
• Be on time to class.
• Important information will be given during
the first and last minutes of class. Excused
or unexcused, if you are late you will be
missing information. If I have to re explain
material with you because you are late you
will lose participation points.
Lab Rules
• Avoid truancy.
• You have seventy-two hours to clear all
absences. Any absence that is not
cleared through the office in this amount of
time is considered a cut.
Lab Rules
• Avoid horseplay, running, play fighting,
arm wrestling or any needless form of
physical contact.
Lab Rules
• Avoid unsafe practices such as throwing
things and playing with the tools and
equipment.
Lab Rules
• Do not touch any equipment or supplies
unless you are using them.
Lab Rules
• Avoid disruptive behavior while the
teacher, assistants, or other students
require your attention.
• Making noises, gestures or comments of
any type is considered disruptive.
Lab Rules
• Do not use profanity, name calling, or
inappropriate comments in the classroom.
Lab Rules
• Gang, sex, drug, violence and racist based
language, designs or attitudes in any form
are prohibited.
• If you incorporate any of the above into
your design projects you will receive a
zero for your design project.
• No designs with guns period! This includes
paintball and millitary weapons.
Lab Rules
• You will be automatically removed from
class if you…
• Steal others work and put your name on it.
• Copy a computer file and turn it in as your
own.
• Purposely, deface, abuse, or vandalize.
Lab Rules
• Anyone who vandalizes, abuses and/or
defaces equipment in this lab will subject
to immediate and permanent removal from
class and criminal prosecution.
• Everything in this classroom belongs to
you, the students of Stockdale High. I
have worked hard to get these things for
you. Keep them nice!
Lab Rules
• Clean up your own mess and put things
back where you found them. You are
responsible for not only your own cleanup
assignment, but your own desk and any
other area you worked in during the
period.
• Do not write on desktops
• No eraser crumbs, scratch paper etc…
Lab Rules
• Use your Stockdale planner as your Hall
pass. It is your responsibility to fill out your
planner with date, time, and reason for
leaving the class.
• Only one student may leave the class at a
time.
• If you need to use the restroom everyday,
bring me a doctors note.
• No one can leave class first/last 10 min.
Lab Rules
• No food or drink is allowed in class.
• If you bring in a drink, say a coffee or a
Jamba juice you just paid five bucks for,
that five bucks will be in the trash can.
• This is a computer lab. You may NOT
have food or drinks in here.
Lab Rules
• The instructor in not responsible for any
possession missing during class.
• Keep your belongings in a safe place.
Lab Rules
• Students are not allowed in any room or
area of the lab besides the area they are
designated to be in.
• You must stay in your seat, no wandering
around the lab.
Computer Login
• Username = six digit UID #
Password = Birthday – 6 digits
MMDDYY
AUP of Computers
• Students may not be on the Internet
without the instructor’s permission.
•  Students may use only the software
that the instructor has given the student
permission to use.
AUP of Computers
• At no time are students allowed to play
any kind of computer game.
• Students may not give their log-in name
and password to other students.
• Students may not log in using another
student’s username and password.
AUP of Computers
•  Students may not download or install
any software onto the computer or their
my documents folder.
•  Students may not attempt to disable or
defeat methods of securing the computer,
either physically and electronically.
AUP of Computers
•  Students may not change the
computer’s configuration in any way.
•  These are your computers. Take care of
them!
•  Do not change the desktop, the cursor
icon, the placement of the shortcuts on the
computer, etc.
AUP of Computers
• Students may not remove parts from the
computer.
• Always ask the instructor if something is
wrong with your computer. Even if it is
something as simple as the mouse coming
unplugged. Do not attempt to do anything
to the computer yourself. Always call the
instructor over to help.
AUP of Computers
• Consequences vary depending on the
severity of the infraction, they may
include but are not limited to the
following:
• Loss of participation points, log off for the
day, detention, suspension, loss of
computer access temporarily, loss of
computer access permanently.
Student Survey
• Print your full name in the upper right hand corner of
your paper.
• 1. Do you have access to a computer at home?
2. If you answered yes to question #1- Does it have
Internet access? What kind of access?
3. Do you have your own email address?
What is it?
• 4.Do you have any of the ADOBE products at home?
If so which ones? Photoshop, Illustrator, After
Effects, others?
• 5. Name five occupations you may be interested in?
• 6. What do you plan on doing after you graduate
from high school?
Student Survey
• 6. What do you do in your spare time? Tell
me something interesting about yourself that
I may not know by having you in class.
• 7. What do you believe will be the highest
level of education you will achieve?
-High School,
-Associates degree (2 yrs.),
-Bachelors degree (4yrs.),
-Masters Degree/ Graduate school (6 yrs.),
-Ph.D. (8+ years)
Student Survey
• 8. What is the highest level of
education that either one of your
parents have?
• 9. Have you ever lived anywhere
besides Bakersfield? Where? How
long?
• 10. Do you have brothers and sisters?
What are their ages? Have I had them
in class before?
Additional Information
• Online School Calendar and regular calendar
http://www.kernhigh.org/stockdale/DirSchedu
les/SchedulesMenu.htm
WASK / ESLERS
http://www.kernhigh.org/stockdale/DirSchoolI
nfo/ESLR.html
• ROC E.S.L.R.S
• http://www.khsd.k12.ca.us/roc/eslrs.htm