Thinking of taking an online class, like my Web Design class, here at FIT?
Let me give you some reasons that you will not see any where else on why learning online just might be fore you.
You can eat anything you want in class. Order a pizza and a coke and spill it over your keyboard. No one will tell you that you can’t have food in the lab.
You can wear anything you want. Fashion is totally up to you when you take an online class. Work in your T-shirt or even a little less.
When you get up at 2am, rather than eat a piece of chocolate cake, you can feed your brain with something good to learn.
Didn’t swallow a bottle of Scope just before class? Not to worry. Bad breath is not a problem.
English is the language of the global fashion business!
Do you want to improve your English language skills? Are you interested in fashion design, promotion, retail buying, the fragrance business, fashion trend forecasting or global fashion business development? Would you like to spend several weeks in New York City? Then FIT’s Summer English as a Second Language / Fashion Business Program is for you!
July 5, 2012 – July 26, 2012
This three-week intensive session offered in partnership with FIT’s Educational Skills department includes an ESL course and classes in fashion business and design topics. Attendees meet a variety of fashion-related industry experts in the classroom and at special events. Earn a Professional Studies Certificate of Completion.
During the Winter Holidays, the windows of every establishment are so lavishly decorated to initiate the beginnings of the Holiday season.
This year, luxury Jeweler Tiffany & Co. created a story, “The Winter Carousel,” that translated from their 2011 whimsical holiday windows to send traffic to their digital storybook to learn more.
The concept focuses on a magical carousel that comes to life along with a young boy and his grandfather in a major landmark in New York, Central Park. The young boy, his grandfather and the carousel animals then visit the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue to discover that they had been there many times before.
Tiffany is able to convey their association of a boy’s childhood experience with diamonds, which highlights the season of gift giving and include their branded products through their digital storybook as well as their relate-able three-dimensional Holiday Windows.
The holiday season isn’t the only time to think of giving back. In these hard pressed financial times, it may be easier to give of your time than to make a cash donation. Have you considered being a volunteer? For those of you thinking, what’s in it for me? I have one word for you plenty!
Where do you find volunteer opportunities? A good place to start is the website volunteermatch.org. By putting in a location (NY, NY) and trying out a few different key words such as fashion, sewing, retail business, small business and the word intern, numerous volunteer opportunities were displayed around the NYC area. These included working in public relations, IT, media/communications, event planning and web development/web design. These opportunities appeared at a myriad of organizations including the Japan Society, Dress for Success, the Police Museum and the International Hostels.
Remember the question, what’s in it for me? Being a volunteer can help to answer one of the most common questions I hear from my students. How do I get a job as an intern? It’s a great way to gain experience and lead to a paying job in the future. (Sometimes where you were a volunteer.) And, living in the NY area, the second most common question I hear from people I know… how do I meet people? You get to spend time with like-minded individuals giving of their time for a cause or organization that means something to them. It’s one of the best ways to network and meet people that I know.
You will develop worlds, characters, and moods. We will discuss story lines and genres. We will map out the entire mini (12 pages) as a story board layout and discuss balloons, panels, pacing, the function of the gutter, icons, using color, and lettering. Hone your personal style.You will become familiar with the tools, techniques and technology possibilities for creating comics. By the end of the class you will have a proof of your creation ready to be printed as an edition.
If you are writing the snappy stuff of Hot Topics Insider – or if you’re the casual reader – you just may want to know how to use WordPress.
WordPress is about as hot as a summer sun gets when it comes to Content Management Systems for web sites. And it happens to be what is used to make and manage the pages here on Hot Topics Insider.
On July 28th at 7PM I’ll be doing a one hour webinar. Here’s a little video of just a few of things I will be demonstrating.
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Google has (what doesn’t Google have) a nice tool to tell us what is on everyone’s mind.
It’s Google Trends. Just enter a keyword and Google will do all the heavy lifting.
Keep in mind that this isn’t a perfect science but it will give you a real good notion of what people are thinking of.
Here are a few interesting keywords to try out just to get the hang of it.
Anthony Weiner – candle just lit and it’s about to go out.
Cropped pants – Heading in the up direction.
Barack Obama – Huge spike when he’s running for President. Once he’s President, ok, we know the guy.
Maxi dresses – Very hot a couple of years ago.
When you get a result following your query you’ll see that you can click on links that will tell your more about your term at various points in time. How cool is that?!?!?!
Do you have a favorite Google tool? Maybe it’s something that you love but a lot of people don’t know about. Tell us by leaving a comment below. OR maybe you found a very interesting result with Google Trends. Tell us!!
If you know a little XHTML (HTML is fine too) then you are good for this class but don’t take it unless you have some comfort with that.
The course is required if you are working on a Web Design Certificate through The Enterprise Center. Heck, I think it should be required if all you do is surf the web. it’s that important.
CSS is all about a web page’s style, layout and typography. CSS is about making great web sites!!
Just A Few Things You Will Learn
* Layout pages without tables (Yippee!!)
* How to set font-sizes in pixels or em units
* How to create modern navigation interfaces
* How to use background images
* A quick look into the future of CSS – that’s CSS3
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