Technology | Hangarau
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Design & Visual Communication
Digital Technology | Hangarau matihiko
Prep courses Students may take one or both prep courses. It is recommended that students with a passion for design take both courses as the Year 12 course will include both product design and architectural design. Architecture Exhibition Architecture. This course enables students to design a piece of relocatable architecture for a festival. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking skills and developing key DVC skills, including sketching, rendering, and layout presentation in an architectural context. Boys will look at inner city architecture as well as exhibition architecture to inform and inspire their project. Students also produce a technical drawing using a drawing board, ruler and compass. Prerequisite for: Level 2 DVC. Product design Contain me Product design. This course enables students to design a sustainable product for a chosen user. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking skills and developing key DVC skills, including sketching, rendering,3D modelling and layout presentation skills in a product design context. Boys will look at the past and present to inform and inspire their project. Students also produce a technical drawing using a drawing
Prep courses Students may take one or both prep courses. Creating programming outcomes Students develop their own programming-based solutions to a given brief. The emphasis is on developing an understanding of programming in the context of the Python language. Students use an integrated development environment, such as PyCharm or Replit. They also learn how to comment code and develop a development log to show their testing and trialling. Prerequisite for: Level 2 Digital Technologies. Digital media design and development Students are able to develop their own Digital Media solutions to a brief they create. The emphasis is on developing skills that can include UX Design, HTML, CSS and Javascript coding, 3D modelling, animation, branding and photo editing in a website or application context. Students have access to text editors, Adobe Design software, and 3D design software (Blender). They also learn how to comment code and develop a development log to show their testing and trialling. Prerequisite for: Level 2 Digital Technologies.
board, ruler and compass. Prerequisite for: Level 2 DVC.
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