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2. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Entire Course VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1 How would you describe your experience with the following?1. Design principles2. InDesign or other desktop publishing software3. Adobe Creative Suite programs such as Photoshop or AcrobatAfter reading the course syllabus, what concerns, if any, do you have regarding the scope of this course? • VCT 320 Week 1 Individual AssignmentIndesign Page • VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 1 • VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2 • VCT 320 Week 2 Individual AssignmentCover Page • VCT 320 Week 2 Team AssignmentProgress Report (TWO PAPERS) • VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1 • VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2

3. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 1 DQ 2 VCT 320 Week 1 Individual AssignmentIndesign Page The purpose of the Week 1 Individual Assignment is to practice utilizing basic functions in InDesign. You will utilize these skills as you complete each of the assignments for this class. For this first assignment, you will not be evaluated on creativity or graphic design principals, but rather on your ability to use the software to complete each task correctly. The Week One Individual • The Ewell (1996) article lists a variety of tips for budding desktop publishers. You will be working in Learning Teams to create brochures for your final project. Choose two tips from the article that you believe will be especially important for your teammates to follow and explain why these tips are important.  What challenges do you predict might come about when designing as a team?

4. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 1 VCT 320 Week 2 DQ 2 Using Google Images or another search option, search for examples of magazine covers. What makes an appealing cover page of a magazine? What are some common elements used in magazine cover designs? What kind of differences do you notice in magazines designed for different audiences? • When designing for a magazine, what are some of the things one must consider?  What are some of the advantages and challenges that go along with designing according to a house style? What are some techniques that the designer uses to save time when laying out the magazine?  

5. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 2 Individual AssignmentCover Page VCT 320 Week 2 Team AssignmentProgress Report Resources: Creating Thumbnail Sketches as a Part of the Design Process Virtual Organization of your team’s choosing Review the Final Learning Team Project instructions. Research electronic and print brochures related to the type of brochure your team is designing. Discuss effective and ineffective design practices. • Select a magazine genre such as sports, popular weeklies, fashion, and so on. For the remainder of your individual assignments you will be creating magazine pages for this genre, so be sure to select a magazine genre that you are interested in working with for several weeks.

6. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 1 VCT 320 Week 3 DQ 2 Consider a challenge that you have encountered while completing your magazine layout assignments. Find a YouTube video that helps to address the issue that you encountered. In your response, include a link to the video along with a summary of the issue that you encountered along with a summary of the video and how it proposes to address the issue. • The Berinstein (1998) article explains some of the licensing issues that surround images used by designers. If you were the art director for a magazine, how would you go about obtaining images for your magazine? Would you hire a photographer, use stock images or use some other option? What if you were designing a brochure in-house for a small local company?

7. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial SCI 245 Week 4 DQ 1 and DQ 2 SCI 245 Week 5 Assignment Sedimentary Rocks Assignment: Sedimentary Rocks Resource: Clastic Sedimentary Rocks animation Write a 700-word paper in APA format that provides an overview of how plate tectonics affects sedimentation. Answer the following questions: Where do sedimentary rocks originate? • Discussion Questions • Describehow plate tectonics is related to the formation of volcanoes. • Which type of plate margin commonly forms volcanoes? Name one of the most popular volcanoes in the United States or the world. If you need assistance, review the Ring of Fire animation

8. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 3 Individual AssignmentDesigning a Ma VCT 320 Week 3 Team AssignmentProgress Report Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Final Learning Team Project Your selected Virtual Organization Review the Final Learning Team Project instructions. • Create two extra pages in your magazine cover Adobe® InDesign® (.IDD) file that fit together to create a two-page spread. A two-page spread is a set of two pages that fit together to create one cohesive layout. • These pages should be filled with content relating to your magazine’s theme and additional images should be added.

9. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 1 VCT 320 Week 4 DQ 2 Read the article "Who is gazing at whom? A look at how sex is used in magazine advertisements?". What are some generalizations that the study makes about gender and sex as it relates to advertising?  Flip through a magazine of your choice and look at the advertisements.  Do the findings from the study align with the types of advertisements found in the magazine?   • Read the article "The Use of Human Models and Cartoon Characters in Magazine Advertisements for Cigarettes, Beer, and Nonalcoholic Beverages". Describe some of the reasons the cigarette and beer industries have been criticized for their advertisements. Do you feel that these criticisms are valid or not?  Explain your reasoning. What, if any, limitations should be put on how these industries advertise?

10. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 4 Individual AssignmentMagazine Layou VCT 320 Week 4 Team Assignment Progress Report Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Final Learning Team Project Your team’s selected Virtual Organization Review the Final Learning Team Project instructions. Review the design prototypes submitted by team members in Week Three. • Create 2 extra pages in your magazine .IDD file. One of these pages will be an ad of a type commonly found within your selected magazine genre. The second page will be a one page article. • Read Creating Thumbnail Sketches as a Part of the Design Process. • Research appropriate ad types.

11. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 5 Individual AssignmentOne More Page VCT 320 Week 5 Learning Team AssignmentFinal Proje Resources: University of Phoenix Material: Final Learning Team Project Your team’s selected Virtual Organization Complete final revisions to your team’s brochure and web brochure designs. Submit the following deliverable to your instructor: • Create 1 more page in your .IDD magazine file. This page will be an ad created for the Virtual Organization of your choice. This ad will need to have the company’s name, color scheme, and images that reflect the Virtual Organization. Apply similar fonts, but the size and color are up to you. Use proofing techniques to finalize your design.

12. VCT 320 Phoenix Course Tutorial VCT 320 Week 5 Team AssignmentFinal Project • Complete the executive summary. • Submit a 1,050- to 1,750-word executive summary to your instructor.

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