Orientation Module

Every assignment has a rubric that explains exactly what you need to do to earn a completion for that assignment. Please get in the habit of viewing the rubric before you complete an assignment.

Orientation Module Objectives

By the end of this orientation you will be able to:

1. Contact Michelle or your classmates for help
2. Identify what I expect of you and what you can expect of me
3. Navigate through a Canvas module
4. Familiarize yourself with the course requirements and structure
5. Get oriented to VoiceThread
6. Set-up your notifications and profile settings
7. Take a survey using the Canvas Quiz tool

List of Orientation Module assignments:

• Due Wednesday:
  • Sign up for a Zoom Check-in (a 10-minute check-in that you’ll complete by the end of week two)
  • Getting to Know You Survey — this is the official MSJC check-in for this class. Per MSJC regulations, students who do not submit this assignment on time may be dropped.
  • Agree to Our Pact Discussion
• Due Friday:
  • My Favorite Photograph VoiceThread assignment – upload your photo and leave your voice or video comment
• Due Monday:
  • Pick Your Grade assignment
  • Orientation Quiz
  • Reply to two peers in the My Favorite Photograph VoiceThread

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Module 1: Road to Photography

Module 1 Learning Objectives

1. Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the silhouette, cyanotype photogram, camera obscura, and photogenic drawing to the invention of photography
2. Identify the contributions of John Herschel, Thomas Wedgewood, Anna Atkins, and Williams Henry Fox Talbot to the development and use of pre-photographic processes
3. Critically reflect on the subjective nature of photographic meaning.

Module 1 Assignments

Due Thursday:

• The Function and Meaning of Photographs (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Friday:

• Attend one 10-minute Zoom Check-in

Monday:

• Function & Meaning of Photographs Discussion – two replies
• Create a Camera Obscura (VoiceThread)
• Module 1 Study Guide
• Module 1 Quiz

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Module 2: Early Photographic Processes

Module 2 Learning Objectives

1. Visually decode a photograph.
2. Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the daguerreotype, calotype, heliography, and the latent image.
3. Identify the contributions of Daguerre, Niépce, Talbot, and Bayard to the invention of photography.
4. Discuss the problems involved with identifying ownership of inventions and other historical accomplishments.
5. Examine the historical details and subject matter of one daguerreotype.

Module 2 Assignments

Due Thursday

• Decoding Photographs (VoiceThread) – one comment

Due Monday

• Curate a Daguerreotype Collection (VoiceThread)
• Decoding Photographs – one reply to a peer (VoiceThread)
• Module 2 Study Guide
• Module 2 Quiz

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Module 3: Wetplate Processes

Module 3 Learning Objectives

1. Explain the improvements that collodion brought to photography.
2. Compare and contrast the daguerreotype and calotype processes with the wet plate processes (glass plate negative/albumen print, ambrotype, tintype).
3. Explain the basic steps and identify the visual characteristics of albumen prints, ambrotypes, and tintypes.
4. Describe the benefits and challenges with wet-plate processes.
5. Evaluate how the human desire for portraits influenced the advancement of the photographic medium.
6. Consider the impact of photography on human memory.

Module 3 Assignments

Due Thursday

• Portrait Revolution (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Monday

• Portrait Revolution – two replies
• Curate a Carte de Visite
• Submit Module 3 Study Guide
• Module 3 Quiz
• Mid-Course Feedback Survey

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Module 4: Snapshots & Motion Pictures

Module 4 Learning Objectives

1. Explain how the gelatin silver process improved upon the wet plate collodion process.
2. Discuss how the Kodak Brownie revolutionized the medium of photography.
3. Demonstrate how to use still images to create a motion picture.
4. Discuss the contributions of Eadward Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey to the development of the motion picture.
5. Discuss photography’s influence on painting in the late nineteenth century.

Module 4 Assignments

Due Thursday:

• Social Influencers (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Monday:

• Social Influencers – two replies
• Create a Motion Picture (VoiceThread)
• Submit the Module 4 Study Guide
• Module 4 Quiz

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Module 5: Modern Art Photography in the U.S.

Module 5 Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate the role of snapshots on human memory and identity.
2. Describe one reason why photography struggled to be recognized as an art form.
3. Discuss three contributions of Alfred Stieglitz that elevated photography as an art form in the United States.
4. Compare and contrast pictorialist photography with straight photography.

Module 5 Assignments

Due Sunday:

• Your Family Archive (VoiceThread) – Upload one photo and leave one voice or video comment
• Sign up for a 20th Century Photographer

Due Monday:

• Module 5 Study Guide
• Module 5 Quiz

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Module 6: 20th Century Photography Project

Module 6 Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate the work of one 20th-century photographer of your choice.
2. Describe the significant life events and contributions of one 20th century photographer of your choice.
3. Curate a collection of photographs that represent significant contributions of one 20th century photographer.

Module 6 Assignments

• Following the rubric criteria, you will spend this week researching your 20th century photographer. Your VoiceThread project is due at the start of Module 7.

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Module 7: Wrap Up

Module 7 Learning Objectives

1. Critically reflect on the work of one 20th century photographer.
2. Reflect on what you’ve learned in this class.
3. Provide advice to future students.

Module 7 Assignments

Due Tuesday:

• 20th Century Photographer Project (Create your own VoiceThread)

Due Monday

• 20th Century Photographer Project (VoiceThread) – Reply to one peer
• Final Course Feedback Survey
• Learning Reflections
• Wisdom Wall

View Grade BundlesHeader Image: Tintype of a Civil War soldier. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection, 2011.51.12

Orientation Module

Every assignment has a rubric that explains exactly what you need to do to earn a completion for that assignment. Please get in the habit of viewing the rubric before you complete an assignment.

Orientation Module Objectives

By the end of this orientation you will be able to:

1. Contact Michelle or your classmates for help
2. Identify what I expect of you and what you can expect of me
3. Navigate through a Canvas module
4. Familiarize yourself with the course requirements and structure
5. Get oriented to VoiceThread
6. Set-up your notifications and profile settings
7. Take a survey using the Canvas Quiz tool

List of Orientation Module assignments:

• Due Wednesday:
  • Sign up for a Zoom Check-in (a 10-minute check-in that you’ll complete by the end of week two)
  • Getting to Know You Survey — this is the official MSJC check-in for this class. Per MSJC regulations, students who do not submit this assignment on time may be dropped.
  • Agree to Our Pact Discussion
• Due Friday:
  • My Favorite Photograph VoiceThread assignment – upload your photo and leave your voice or video comment
• Due Monday:
  • Pick Your Grade assignment
  • Orientation Quiz
  • Reply to two peers in the My Favorite Photograph VoiceThread

View Grade Bundles

Module 1: Road to Photography

Module 1 Learning Objectives

1. Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the silhouette, cyanotype photogram, camera obscura, and photogenic drawing to the invention of photography
2. Identify the contributions of John Herschel, Thomas Wedgewood, Anna Atkins, and Williams Henry Fox Talbot to the development and use of pre-photographic processes
3. Critically reflect on the subjective nature of photographic meaning.

Module 1 Assignments

Due Thursday:

• The Function and Meaning of Photographs (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Friday:

• Attend one 10-minute Zoom Check-in

Monday:

• Function & Meaning of Photographs Discussion – two replies
• Create a Camera Obscura (VoiceThread)
• Module 1 Study Guide
• Module 1 Quiz

View Grade Bundles

Module 2: Early Photographic Processes

Module 2 Learning Objectives

1. Visually decode a photograph.
2. Identify the significance and explain the basic characteristics of the daguerreotype, calotype, heliography, and the latent image.
3. Identify the contributions of Daguerre, Niépce, Talbot, and Bayard to the invention of photography.
4. Discuss the problems involved with identifying ownership of inventions and other historical accomplishments.
5. Examine the historical details and subject matter of one daguerreotype.

Module 2 Assignments

Due Thursday

• Decoding Photographs (VoiceThread) – one comment

Due Monday

• Curate a Daguerreotype Collection (VoiceThread)
• Decoding Photographs – one reply to a peer (VoiceThread)
• Module 2 Study Guide
• Module 2 Quiz

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Module 3: Wetplate Processes

Module 3 Learning Objectives

1. Explain the improvements that collodion brought to photography.
2. Compare and contrast the daguerreotype and calotype processes with the wet plate processes (glass plate negative/albumen print, ambrotype, tintype).
3. Explain the basic steps and identify the visual characteristics of albumen prints, ambrotypes, and tintypes.
4. Describe the benefits and challenges with wet-plate processes.
5. Evaluate how the human desire for portraits influenced the advancement of the photographic medium.
6. Consider the impact of photography on human memory.

Module 3 Assignments

Due Thursday

• Portrait Revolution (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Monday

• Portrait Revolution – two replies
• Curate a Carte de Visite
• Submit Module 3 Study Guide
• Module 3 Quiz
• Mid-Course Feedback Survey

View Grade Bundles

Module 4: Snapshots & Motion Pictures

Module 4 Learning Objectives

1. Explain how the gelatin silver process improved upon the wet plate collodion process.
2. Discuss how the Kodak Brownie revolutionized the medium of photography.
3. Demonstrate how to use still images to create a motion picture.
4. Discuss the contributions of Eadward Muybridge and Étienne-Jules Marey to the development of the motion picture.
5. Discuss photography’s influence on painting in the late nineteenth century.

Module 4 Assignments

Due Thursday:

• Social Influencers (Canvas Discussion) – one post

Due Monday:

• Social Influencers – two replies
• Create a Motion Picture (VoiceThread)
• Submit the Module 4 Study Guide
• Module 4 Quiz

View Grade Bundles

Module 5: Modern Art Photography in the U.S.

Module 5 Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate the role of snapshots on human memory and identity.
2. Describe one reason why photography struggled to be recognized as an art form.
3. Discuss three contributions of Alfred Stieglitz that elevated photography as an art form in the United States.
4. Compare and contrast pictorialist photography with straight photography.

Module 5 Assignments

Due Sunday:

• Your Family Archive (VoiceThread) – Upload one photo and leave one voice or video comment
• Sign up for a 20th Century Photographer

Due Monday:

• Module 5 Study Guide
• Module 5 Quiz

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Module 6: 20th Century Photography Project

Module 6 Learning Objectives

1. Evaluate the work of one 20th-century photographer of your choice.
2. Describe the significant life events and contributions of one 20th century photographer of your choice.
3. Curate a collection of photographs that represent significant contributions of one 20th century photographer.

Module 6 Assignments

• Following the rubric criteria, you will spend this week researching your 20th century photographer. Your VoiceThread project is due at the start of Module 7.

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Module 7: Wrap Up

Module 7 Learning Objectives

1. Critically reflect on the work of one 20th century photographer.
2. Reflect on what you’ve learned in this class.
3. Provide advice to future students.

Module 7 Assignments

Due Tuesday:

• 20th Century Photographer Project (Create your own VoiceThread)

Due Monday

• 20th Century Photographer Project (VoiceThread) – Reply to one peer
• Final Course Feedback Survey
• Learning Reflections
• Wisdom Wall

View Grade BundlesHeader Image: Tintype of a Civil War soldier. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection, 2011.51.12