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DCTC Visual Communications

New AIGA Minnesota Membership pricing

AIGA Minnesota is the first place to turn for inspiration, professional development, and excellence in design in Minnesota. Our mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force. We encourage the exchange of ideas and information among professionals involved in design and other related fields.

Our members include graphic designers, as well as professionals in allied fields such as printing, prepress, photography, illustration, paper manufacturing/distribution, and writing. AIGA Minnesota was founded in 1977 as the Minnesota Graphic Designers Association. Today, we’re one of the largest AIGA chapters in the nation, serving nearly 1,300 members in Minnesota and the upper Midwest.

AIGA Minnesota supports the interests of professionals, educators and students who are engaged in the process of designing, regardless of where they are in the arc of their careers. We offer education and professional development programs, competitions, shows that promote excellence in design and opportunities for students and professionals to network. We also strive to enhance the experience of members and to position Minnesota and the upper Midwest as leaders in the field of design.

If you have questions regarding membership to AIGA Minnesota, please go to the membership section for more information.

Welcome and Welcome Back to Spring Semester!

We hope this will be a good learning experience for you. And we hope it will be enjoyable. Here are a couple of things to remember this semester

• Here are some online tips – getting started online
• Discount Student software is available at Unique Software
• Email is the primary form of student communication for DCTC and we need you to go to your D2L account to verify that your profile has the email you want to receive school communication through.
• Use your personal network folder (pops up when logged in) or the Athena (A-M, N-Z and class resources-sign on as guest-Photo student may need to use the PHOTO volume – ask your instructor) drive not the hard drive of a computer for storage of your work unless directed by an instructor. Also clean off files you are no longer using.
• Always backup your files somewhere else (jumpdrive, cd etc).
• Be courteous in the classrooms, turn off cell phones ringers and use headphones for audio during lab time. Check with each instructor on cell phone and other electronics policies in the classroom, some might be more strict.
• If you print it, pick it up. Also check what printer you are printing to and watch your printer queue (don’t know where it is ask someone) so you aren’t waiting behind 5 projects no one deleted.
• Keep track of your personal items and equipment. Take it with you when you leave a classroom.
• Label all portable and jump drives with name and program so lost items get a higher possibility of being found and returned.
• Ask questions! Ask for help! Let your instructors know if you have a problem! We want you to succeed!
• Get your parking sticker from Student Services as soon as you can! The current sticker is green and enforcement is in place. No one needs a parking ticket.
• To log in to the computers or wireless on campus – you will need a network ID.
  To Activate your Network ID you will need to first know your e-services log in (this is the log in you used to register for classes)
  If you have your e-services log in information then follow these steps to activate your account:
  1. Go to https://www.dctc.edu/account/ <https://www.dctc.edu/account/>
  2. Click on “Create My Campus Network Account (Students Accounts Only)”
  3. Enter your tech ID number (8 digits) and your e-services password.
  4. Create a password for your network login
  The password must:
  - Be at least 8 characters long
  - Contain at least one upper and one lower case letter
  - Contain at least one numeral
  - Not contain your username(tech id)
  5.  Click Create Account
  6. Account created successfully
  Your Student Network Username = Tech ID number
  Your Student Network Password = Password created during account activation.
  You can complete this process from off-campus. If you have not activated their account before coming to campus there will be computer kiosks available in Student Services and the Instructional Technology Center (Room 2-104).
  You will not be able to use a computer on-campus without an activated Network ID
  If you have previously activated your Network ID – but do not remember your password – you can reset it at https://www.dctc.edu/account <https://www.dctc.edu/account>  and click on “Change my DCTC Campus Network Password”
  If you have used a network ID at DCTC other than your student/tech ID number you will need to re-activate your account.
  All Student Network ID’s are student/tech ID numbers.

Parking

There is NO staff, faculty or student parking allowed in the visitor’s lot.
There are NO EXCEPTIONS.  The visitor’s lot will be monitored, and any vehicles belonging to staff, faculty or registered students will be ticketed and towed.
EVERYONE must get new GREEN parking stickers for the 2012-2013 school year.  Students need to get new GREEN stickers at student services.

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.

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.

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.

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