BTS Arts

 

Course Overview and Introduction

Hello and welcome to the Beverly Taylor Sorenson Arts Class. I am your instructor, Zachary Baggett. You may contact me by email at zrbaggett@graniteschools.org if you have any specific questions regarding this course, or about assignments as they arise. Please allow 48 hours for a response to your inquiries. 

I currently teach in the Granite School District as an Art Specialist. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Art Education and have experience teaching in grades kindergarten through 12. If you are interested in seeing my work, some of it may be viewed at this website: https://imaginationvoyage.wordpress.com/ 

This class is considered an asynchronous online course. This means that we will not meet in person as a class, but we will at times post discussion boards and have collaborative assignments. These assignments will have a specific window of time for you to work and a due date, but there will be no official "meeting time" in which you will have to be present for a live video conference or live chat. Completing assignments before the designated due date is sufficient. It is recommended that you interact with the canvas work space several times weekly, this ensures that you have ample opportunity to interact with your peers posts and to do collaborative assignments

 

Learning Objectives

All content in this course was developed to meet the core standards for 6th grade according to the Utah State Office of Education. A link to these standards can be found here: http://www.uen.org/core/core.do?courseNum=1060

These standards will be addressed in assignments that you will complete over the course of the class.

One Letter point from each objective according to USOE standards will be addressed in our assignment each week.

For example:

Week 1: Objective 1
a. Explore a variety of art materials while learning new techniques and processes. 

Week 2 Objective 1

b. Portray distant objects higher on the drawing paper.

Week 3: Objective 1

c. Use the horizon line to represent eye level in artwork. Etc. 

 

 

Assessment and Measurement

Assignments come in several forms. Some assignments will require that you read text, watch video clips, or view images before submitting an assignment or a post to a discussion board on this website.

Some assignments will be text driven, and require you to turn in a paper electronically, by using .Doc, .Docx or Google Drive Format.

Some assignments will be Art Product oriented. You may be asked to provide evidence of a project in video, image, or written format. These files can be uploaded electronically to canvas under the assignments tab.

All assignments are not listed at this time, however you can expect a new assignment to be uploaded once a week on each Monday at 12:00 PM. The previous week's assignment will be due by that time. Weekly assignments will range in scope between 10-20 pts. Tests and Finals will be weighted approximately 3 times that of a typical assignment . Details will be given in advanced about upcoming finals under the announcements on the home page of Canvas. 

 

Instructional Materials

No textbook is required for this class. However, you will need easy access to:

1. A computer with internet access
2. Appropriate plugins to play videos on your computer (This is likely already loaded on your computer)
3. Microsoft Word, or equivalent word processes software
4. A PDF Reader (This is likely already loaded on your computer)
5. Art supplies, incuding:

• 1x12 pack of prismacolor Colored Pencils
• 1x Set of VIne Charcoal
• 1x Charcoal Pencil Black
• 1x Charcoal Pencil White
• 1x full color set of Acrylic Paints
• 1x sable brush
• 1x fine tipped brush
• 1 pack of pencils
• 1 pencil sharpener
• Construction Paper
• 2x50 pack of Drawing Paper 80 LBS 
• 1 fine tipped marker

 

Learner Interaction and Engagement

Because this is a purely online class, your participation and engagement will be assessed solely upon your submitted assignments. As mentioned above, this includes your responses in our class discussions, personal responses to prompts, submitted written essays/reports, or documentation of completed art projects. Rubrics for all assignments will be provided at the time the assignment is given. If there is any ambiguity or questions about the nature of the assignment, you may contact me by email at: zrbaggett@granitschools.org Please allow 48 hours for a response.

It is expected that you maintain a professional demeanor in your interaction with you peers in our classroom environment. Discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated, and will be met with expulsion from the course. 

Differences of opinion will be welcomed, so long as they are shared without crud, demeaning or discriminatory words or actions. 

The confidentiality of all students information, including assessment scores will be upheld.

 

Course Technology

This course requires that you have previous fluency in using word processing software i.e. Microsoft word.

You will need to be able to easily navigate the internet and have access to watch and listen to videos or recordings.

You will need to be able to upload various media including photos, video, word documents unto the Canvas portal to submit assignments. This requires internet access. 

 

Learner Support

Due to the nature of online classes, there will be an open book policy. Any information available to you may be used to inform your artwork or assignments. However inspirations, and sources must be cited. No official format is required. Choose credible sources. Failure to do so may jeopardize the score of each assignment.

Always submit original work. Copyright policies are in force. Cite sources as necessary. Fraudulent work will be considered an automatic failure for that assignment, and will result in a personal conference with the instructor to negotiate the continuation of the offender in the course. Intentional copyright infringement may also bring the offender under the consequences of the law. 

Copyright laws may be found at: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html 

Additional informaiton about copyright can be found in the Library of Congress at:

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/text/ 

Student support is paramount in this course. All questions are completely welcome to the instructor at any time. Contact information for the instructor is listed at the top of this syllabus. 

 

Accessibility

Please make accommodation requirements known upon registration for this class. Course assignments will have alternative means of submission and completion according to such needs. Visual or auditory alternatives will be provided in each assignment in conjunction with text, if such need is specified for those with need for auditory or visual guidance. Access point and user interface alterations may be made if such needs are specified. Please seek out aid from your local library or school campus for additional accommodations in accessing and interfacing with this digital course. 

 

Honor Code

Continuation in this course will serve as indication that  the student will adhere to the standards of conduct described in this Syllabus, and that the failure to meet this criteria may result in corrective action or expulsion from the course. 

If at any time the student desires to withdraw from the course they will contact the instructor immediately via the email provided in this Syllabus.