Welcome to Illustrator 101!

Class Overview
My name: Jeff Lance
My e-mail: jlance.1@go.ccad.edu
My phone: 301-467-1452

Class website: www.introtoillustrator.blogspot.com

Please feel free to get in touch with me with any questions you may have! I’m here to help and I sincerely want to help all of you understand Adobe Illustrator.

In addition, here are some handy websites with all sorts of tutorials. If I miss anything you’d like to see covered, chances are it’s on one of these:

http://www.adobeillustratortutorials.com/

http://illustrationinfo.com/?page_id=159

I’ll keep looking for additional resources as the semester goes on and send them to you as I find them.

Class Structure
Most of the class time will be spent on hands-on exercises—performed by the instructor while you repeat them on your individual computer. The experience level of each student will be assessed at the first class and the range of experience within the class will determine the pace of instruction. Everyone in the class is given time to accomplish each exercise. Naturally, a more similarly experienced group can move faster at their designated level than a class with widely varying levels.

• Please feel free to ask questions at any time.

• If you think you can help someone who is having trouble in the class and the instructor is working with another student, please feel free to offer help. There is usually a broad range of skills in every class.

Attendance
This is a non credit complete/incomplete class. You are allowed to miss up to 2 classes per semester to receive a “complete” status for the semester. Notify the instructor if you need to miss a class. Tardiness is disruptive to the pace of the class, try to be on time. Notify the instructor, via cell if necessary, if you are going to be more than 15 minutes late. With few exceptions, 30 minutes late is considered a missed class.

Homework
You retain very little of this instruction if you do not follow up on your own between classes. Repeating the class exercise in addition to the homework is recommended to advance your competency in the programs. Many of the assignments come from the recommended text and can be done independently. Classes will begin with a review of homework assignments from the previous week. Please also be prepared to discuss any computer obstacles or successes experienced during the week. You should begin early to think of real applications for what you are learning in class. These applications can be for work or a personal interest and can become your independent project for the last class.

Store and Transfer files

You should save the work done in class to transfer to your home computer. The best method to do this is to bring in a flash drive. They are small and the price is based on the memory size. Get the most memory you can afford and a minimum of 512mb (1gb is more useful). This is also a useful device for bringing your homework to class if you cannot bring in a hard copy.

Open Lab Hours

One or both of the computer labs will be open certain hours for students needing to use the equipment at the college to review and do homework assignments. Refer to the Lab Schedule posted on the Lab doors to see the times designated for open lab time. There is an alternate lab at the Student Technology Center (STC). The hours of operation are 7:30 am - 10pm Mondays -Thursdays; 8:00 am - 5 pm Fridays; 9:00 am - 5 pm Saturdays; 9:00 am - 5 pm Sundays.

Here’s a link for more info: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/oit/InTech.aspx?id=217

General Rules/Policies:

• Please quit all applications after use.
• Lab Macs should never be shut down.
• Do not turn off monitors
• Trash all personal files on the computer desktops and empty the trash.
• Push in chairs when class is finished.
• Pick up all papers etc, so the next class will enter an orderly environment
• You may restart computers if frozen.
• Absolutely no food or drink in the labs
• No external music allowed in the labs (headphones only are permitted during lab time)
• No external devices are permitted to be connected to the lab computers