This document provides an overview of an upcoming class that will include introductions where students share two truths and a lie about themselves, a discussion of visual rhetoric, and an introduction to the technology and software that will be used in the class. The class will also include reading assignments and an introductory design task in Photoshop where students will bring and work with a photo of their own face.

2. 1) Welcome to class
2) Who….aree…youuu? You-oo-ooo-
ooo?
3) The syllabus
4) A little visual rhetoric interlude
5) Learning the tech: what we’re going
to do

3. The Activity:
Two Lies and the Truth
You get five minutes to write down
your name along with three
statements about yourself.
You will then hand the card to the
person to your right, who will read
the three things. As a class, we have
to try to guess which one is true.

4. A) I was recruited to play inside
linebacker at IU but shredded my knee
during my first practice.
B) I once sang the DeVinyls song “I Touch
Myself” in the rain on the back of a
flatbed truck to a live radio audience.
C) I spent a summer working as the
driver for Indiana legend John Cougar.

5. Please navigate to Canvas on your computer. We’re
going to do the dry but necessary reading of policies
and overviews. Please go to the “modules” section (it
should load when you open, but if not).

6. And now an interlude that will sort of gloss
what we’re going to be doing.

7. Let’s talk about this guy…

8. Look at this…

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11. 1) That’s the original
2) Clay Davis from HBO’s The Wire
3) Sarah Palin, former VP candidate
4) Alfred E. Newman, from MAD magazine
5) The Dude, from The Big Lebowski
6) The Joker, specifically Heath Ledger from The Dark Knight
7) Admiral Akbar from Star Wars
8) Big Bird from Sesame Street
9) Tyler Durden from Fight Club
10)R2D2 from the Star Wars
11)The Empty Chair that Clint Eastwood talked to
12)A Hopi, American Indian tribal member
13)Dr. Doom, a villain deserving of better than that horrible Fantastic 4 movie
14)Benson, from the old TV series Soap and later his own show, Benson
15)Optimus Prime, leader of those pesky Autobots

12. For next class, read the first 3 chapters of
Robin Williams’ Non-Designer’s Design Book.
There’s a link to the book in Canvas for you to
open.
In class we will play with Photoshop for the
first time and begin our first design task. Bring
a picture of your face.