Year 10 Information Processing and Publishing
Students apply practical skills and design principles to provide creative solutions to text-based communication tasks, using imagination and creativity to make proposals and choices. They use the design process to apply problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills. Students create both hard-copy and electronic text-based publications and document the development process. Students identify and use the computer hardware and software to process, manage and communicate information in a range of contexts including editorial publication or product design. They analyse the impacts and consequences of the use of publishing technologies.
Subject Type: Elective
Length: Semester Course
SACE Credits: N/A
Prerequisites: Open Course
Contact Person: daniel.engler@stcolumba.sa.edu.au
Further Reading: F-10 Curriculum | Digital Technologies – Year 10 (australiancurriculum.edu.au)
Australian Academy of Graphic Design | Courses (graphicdesignacademy.com.au)
Topic Overview
- Image/ Graphic Processing
- Information Publishing & Printing
- Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Techniques
- Design Principles
- Issues Analysis – Ethical Study
Assessment Overview
Practical – Processes & Production Skills (60%)
- Celebrity Flyer Task – Adobe Photoshop
- Photoshop Graphic Design Techniques
- Illustrator Brochure Design
- Brochure Printing
Theory – Knowledge & Understanding (40%)
- Product Record – Documentation of Processes & Production Techniques
- Ethical Study – Image Manipulation
- Investigation of Design Principles
- Implementation of Design Principles – Generation
- Evaluation of Product