COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION IN EDUCATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BTE 2005 GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION IN EDUCATION COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR YASEMIN KAHYAOĞLU ERDOĞMUŞ

Offered to

Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education

Course Objective

In this course, students are aimed to gain knowledge, skills and competence about design process and principles; history of graphic design; application areas of graphic design; basic concepts of graphics; image formats; general features of graphics processing program; tools panel; vector tools; working with layers; text operations; advanced techniques and filters; to prepare web tools with pictures; creating button; slices and active areas; optimization and transfer to web environment; creating gif animations; masking; creating pop-up menus; fundamentals of animation; graphics; text processing, symbols, creating animation, audio and video operations; multimedia operations; advanced interaction; educational animation development and usage principles; educational animation development; developing an educational software using an animation program.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain the fundamental graphic design process and principles
2   To edit multimedia content
3   To explain educational animation development and usage principles
4   To develop animations for educational purposes
5   To develop an educational software using an animation program

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Design process and principles; history of graphic design; application areas of graphic design; basic concepts of graphics
2 Image formats; general features of graphics processing program; tools panel; vector tools
3 Working with layers; text operations; advanced techniques and filters
4 To prepare web tools with pictures; creating button; slices and active areas; optimization and transfer to web environment
5 Creating gif animations; masking; creating pop-up menus
6 Fundamentals of animation; graphics; text processing, symbols, creating animation, audio and video operations
7 Multimedia operations; advanced interaction
8 General Review, Course Evaluation, Midterm Exam
9 Educational animation development and usage principles
10 Educational animation development
11 Educational animation development
12 Educational animation development
13 Developing an educational software using an animation program
14 Developing an educational software using an animation program
15 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

Aydıngüler, M. H. (2016). Illustrator CC. Abaküs Yayıncılık.
Faulkner, A. & Chavez, C. (2018) Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book. Adobe Press.
Incearık, M. E. (2015) Grafik Tasarım Rehberi. Kodlab Yayıncılık.
Labrecque, J. & Schwartz, R. (2018). Learn Adobe Animate CC for Multiplatform Animations. Peachpit Press.
Lavieri, E. (2018). Getting Started with Unity 2018 - Third Edition: A Beginner's Guide to 2D and 3D game development with Unity. Packt Publishing.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, question-answer, observation, case study

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE Midterm Exam
2 DTK Other Activity
3 FN Semester final exam
4 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.30 + Student examDTK * 0.10 + FN * 0.60
5 BUT Make- up note
6 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.30 +Student examDTK * 0.10 + BUT * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr. Ercan AKPINAR
Dokuz Eylül University
Buca Faculty of Education
Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technology
Hasan Ali Yücel Building
35160 Buca/Izmir/ Turkey
ercanakpinar@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 4 52
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing assignments 13 1 13
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 103

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.11455553113
LO.21555554213
LO.31455553112
LO.41555554212
LO.51555554212

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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