Summer Hours
Café Hours
Monday – Thursday
730am – 1pm
Friday
730am – 1230pm
Summer Offerings:
Salad Bar
Limited World Taco
Grill Menu
Sabino’s Sandwiches and Wraps
The Wellness Center will be open beginning Monday May 21st. The summer hours are:
Monday – Thursday from 10:00am-5:00pm
Friday – Closed
Regular hours will resume on August 27th
The Student Service Office (Admissions, Financial Aid, Records/Registration, Advising) hours during the summer (May 21 through July 27) will be:
Monday through Thursday 7:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Fridays 7:00 a.m. – Noon*
*as we did last year, Student Services staff will still be working until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays but will use the afternoon to get caught up on paperwork, emails, phone calls and have dedicated time to process applications and financial aid. Phones will continue to be answered up until 4:00 p.m. on Fridays.
Portfolio Show
What a great portfolio show this year. So many students that really stood out. The votes are in though and here are the winners.
Best of Show (Instructors choice) – Kristen Vanevenhoven
Applied Visual Art – Chris Svitel
Graphic Design – Cierra Baumgartener
Multimedia/Web – Paige Lolling
Photography- Stephanie Serres
New Creative Pro Newsletter Out
Check it out. Always lots of freebies – brushes, fonts styles etc. Creativepro.com
FYI – Pdfs with gray sides
If pdfs from you browser print out with gray on the sides open it in a new window (right click or control click) before printing. You will get a full normal page.
Know a girl grades 5-8? Sign her up for TXT 2012
It could change her life.
more on TXT2012
Teens eXperiencing Technical education
July 30 – Aug 3, 2012
Girls grades 5-8
Hands-on Workshops:
- Design
- Business
- Transportation
- Industrial
- Health
- Science
- Technology
Registration begins May 1, 2012
www.dctc.edu/go/txt
txt2012@dctc.edu
651.423.8439
Creative Writing Contest
This year the DCTC Writers Club will hold a writing contest in Poetry and Prose (fiction and nonfiction). This year’s contest is our first. Students who have attended DCTC during the 2011/12 school year are eligible. Winning entries receive between $100 and $250 DCTC scholarship. Winners and runners-up will be considered for publication in the Dakota Review for the 2012/13 issue. Submission due date: May 9, 2012. Visit the Student Life Blog for full contest details. Contact: joe.campbell@dctc.edu.
Plant Sales
DCTC’s horticultural club is happy to announce its annual Spring Plant Sale! It takes place on May 10-11 from 8am-2pm in the school greenhouse on the far west side of campus. All proceeds go back into the Landscape/Horticulture program. Come see and smell the delights of the greenhouse. A sign-up sheet will be offered for any who wish to keep abreast of all plant sales at the school.
Graduation
Check out the Graduation Newsletter for complete details.
Spring Carnival
Wednesday May 2, 10-1, Central Commons
To celebrate the end of the year, the Student Senate is hosting a Spring Carnival! We will have an inflatable bungee run game, remote control NASCAR racing, and free subs. Hope you can join the fun!
Healthy Knight Fun Run
Everyone who registers for the Healthy Knight Run will be entered to win four Twins tickets and a parking pass!*
*Minnesota Twins vs. Los Angeles Angels, May 7, 2012. Seats are Section 13, Row 12 in the Dugout Box.
4th Annual Healthy Knight Run (5K & 1 Mile)—Thursday, May 3, 4 p.m.
The deadline for the Early Bird registration is Friday, April 27th!!!
We will have a table outside the Student Life Center today between 11am and 1pm for you to sign-up, otherwise you have the following options:
Sign up now by filling out the Registration form <http://www.dctc.edu/assets/pdfs/events/2012-Healthy-Knight-Run.pdf> and returning it to the Student Life Center, or Complete the registration Online <http://blogs.dctc.edu/youblue/2012/04/11/4th-annual-healthy-knight-runwalk/> . By using this option you can pay via debit or credit card!
Minnesota Twins Game:
Reserve your tickets now for the July 17 game at 7:10 p.m. vs. the Baltimore Orioles. Group discount of $15 per ticket. Tickets are not limited to students—faculty, staff, friends, and family can attend as well! Contact: anna.voight@dctc.edu.
Simple Steps – a FREE Walking Program
Here’s a healthy option — Simple Steps, a Dakota County walking program designed to help people move more. Simple Steps is a fun and easy walking program that helps people enhance their health. They join up with a friend or 2 and together they decide how often and how long to walk. Whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 miles, every step counts. Simple Steps runs April 1 to July 31. There is no fee to participate. More information, including online registration, is available at www.dakotacounty.us (search Simple Steps). Posters and brochures are available; e-mail SimpleSteps@co.dakota.mn.us or call 651-554-6100.
Pre-Registration Advising was Feb 27th.
See your advisor to get your access code.
VCOM students should look at a printed Degree Audit Report (DARS) to see which classes they still need. Summer and Fall schedules can be found on the main dctc site. Go to course schedule at the bottom (#2).
Spring only coursesWeb
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Construction
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Fall only coursesAdvanced
Multimedia
Production |
New Classes for Fall
Take as an elective or in addition to your degree.
Xpert Photoshop & Illustrator — Prereq’s: Intro and Adv PS
Learn advanced techniques in Photoshop & Illustrator, developing creative backgrounds, type magic, and pop-up effects in the software.
Javascript for Designers- Prereq- Interactive Design Fundamentals
Digital Animation
Typography and Layout I- use instead of separate layout and typography classes
Watercolor and Gouache
Story, Sequence and Animation
Print management – work with the management end of the printing industry, topics will include Job costing/estimating, Customer service, Print buying, Distribution. (to include postal regs)
Design Drawing – Use instead of Scale and Perspective
Check out the Latest How design Magazine
Like free photoshop brushes and Tutorials?
Great e-mag to subscribe to if you like free photoshop stuff www.greenbulbgang.com
Acrobat in the classrooms
If you can’t get the acrobat plugin to work in your classroom browser (can’t see pdfs of D2L for example), go to the hard drive and launch Acrobat X for the first time then close and open your browser and it should work then. Thank you – it just needs to activate the license.
Looking to purchase software?
Education discounts on Adobe and other software are available at Unique Software in Eagan.
Go the website www.unique-software.com and check them out.
Student Handbooks are in!
Students can pick them up in Student Services, Student Life, or the Bookstore.
Hey is your D2L/DCTC online email correct?
Instructors are trying to contact students through their listed email and are not getting through. They are getting the dreaded bounce back or no reply. Check your address – you never know what your instructor may be mailing about.
Take a look at the blog on the home page
There is an instructor generated blog on the home page of this site you should check out. You can get to it through the “home” link above or entries are accessible through the category links off to the right. While you’re at it sign up so you can login and comment on the blog. Maybe we can start a discussion or two. We hope to have more information up there soon.
Writing Center Available
Eric Wardell is the Writing Center tutor here at DCTC. In Room 2-103, across from the Learning Center, he offers free group and individual tutoring on anything involving the English language (grammar, sentence structure, forming ideas for papers, writing conclusions, theses, annotated bibliographies, properly citing sources to avoid plagiarism and even working on proper pronunciation). Call the appointment number at 651-423-8420.
Lab Use
Need to use the computers to get your work done outside of class? You can use 1-101, 1-104, 1-106 and 1-108 anytime there is not a class in session. Check the schedule outside the door of that lab for the classroom use times. You may use extra computers during a class if the instructor OKs it. Also there are Mac computers in the ITC lab (hours are 7:30 a.m.– 6:30 p.m. Monday thru Thursday; 7:30 a.m.– 5 p.m. Friday) with VCOM software for you to use.
Academic Advisor
The academic advisor in Student Services for Visual Communications is Amy Eppen. Email is amy.eppen@dctc.edu Phone 651-423-8384
Miscellaneous
Mac cheat sheet for pc users
Cafe will be open from 6:30 a.m. – 2 p.m every day.
Contact an Instructor
Belanger, Mary
651-423-8320
Graphic Design/Electronic Publishing
mary.belanger@dctc.edu
Eilers, Bill
651-423-8364
Photography
william.eilers@dctc.edu
Engvall, DeAnn
651-423-8457
Graphic Design/Multimedia/Web
deann.engvall@dctc.edu
Larson, Connie
651-423-8529
Graphic Design
connie.larson@dctc.edu
Latner, Peter
651-423-8590
Photography
peter.latner@dctc.edu
Megan, Mary
651-423- 8528
Graphic Design
mary.megan@dctc.edu
Nelson, Carl
Graphic Design/Applied Visual Arts
carl.nelson@dctc.edu
Partin, Gwen
651-423-8369
Applied Visual Arts
gwen.partin@dctc.edu
Skoro, Peter
651-423-8530
Graphic Design/Multimedia/Web
peter.skoro@dctc.edu
Tangen, Darrell
651-423-8584
Photography
darrell.tangen@dctc.edu