Studio briefs, tasks and supporting material for the work that you are being asked to produce. Virtual notice boards, online forums and online sign up for tutorials, crits and workshops. Access to the broader online information, resources and community at Leeds College of Art. E-studio is linked to your academic email account and provides you with updates to course content, networking opportunities and notifications of any changes to timetabled sessions. You will be introduced to the E-studio during the Induction Programme and will become increasingly familiar with it through briefings and studio workshops.
ONLINE PORTFOLIOS, CRITICAL JOURNALS & BLOGS Modules across all three levels of the programme will require you to document the work that you produce on a set of online portfolios and critical journals in the form of blogs. These blogs will form a considerable part of the evidence that you will need to provide for assessment and have been specifically structured to allow your work to be assessed effectively and consistently throughout your studies. PERSONAL HOMEPAGE e.g f-bates1114.blogspot.com Your personal homepage will be the focal point of the blogs that you set up on the course. It will act as a hub for a set of course related blogs (described below). You will need to set up and maintain links to your other blogs as well as other online resources that you discover throughout the three years of your degree. DESIGN PRACTICE BLOG. e.g f-bates1114-dp.blogspot.com This blog should be used to document the practical and conceptual development of your design work in response to studio briefs. Staff assessing your work will look here for evidence of your ability to record, organise and evaluate the exploration of ideas, media, processes and production methods. By documenting your investigations and posting them to your blog. you will build up an increasingly reflective approach to your own development as well as helping to evidence the exploration of your own Design Practice. DESIGN CONTEXT BLOG. e.g f-bates1114-dc.blogspot.com This blog should be used to post responses to the tasks set as part of your Context of Practice 1/2/3 modules and your ongoing independent research into the historical, theoretical and contextual concerns of Graphic Design. When assessing this blog staff will be looking for your ability to inform your critical judgements and analytical opinions with appropriate references to contemporary creative practices. Over the next two years you will build up a portfolio of references, analytical methods, examples of relevant contemporary/historical practice and more. This blog will provided a valuable resource when writing research proposals for your dissertation and developing appropriate theoretical research in your third year of study.
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