Investigation Workbook REQUIREMENTS

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IB Digital Visual Arts – INVESTIGATION WORKBOOKS

The Research Workbook (IWB) should be a working journal of your experience throughout this course. It is not a scrapbook, nor a mere sketchbook. It is meant to document your personal growth, a commentary on your personal journey, and a record of your personal growth. Students should spend little time on complicated lay-outs; rather they should focus on investigation and personal reflection on their place in the world of art and design.
 
REQUIREMENTS:
• Date and number your pages. Not only is it required, but it also makes it easier to refer back to a previous idea or thought.
• Don’t skip pages thinking that you need to finish something before beginning another. This course lends itself to one idea filtering into others, so progress in your book as your mind works. Jumping from one idea and back again is not a bad thing!
• NEVER TEAR OUT OR REMOVE PAGES!!!!
• Explore an idea or material multiple times. Force yourself to do something again in a new way, and then to analyze the evolution.
• Use the IWB to comment on your own attitudes about life, social, cultural, and political concerns.
• The emphasis in your IWB should be the process and progression of your ideas. Document everything, from the artist you researched to the Discovery Channel special that inspired you.
• Include reviews, newspaper articles, gallery clippings, and other sources that are relevant to your personally artistic journey. (Be careful not to scrapbook)
• Fill each page leaving no gaps or white space. (Don’t write in 36 point font though either)
• Write legibly, preferably in black or dark ink.
• The purpose of the IWB is to show your personal growth, therefore editing to hide flaws is not only unnecessary, but detrimental to the overall IWB. This is not meant to be a finished and perfect art object, free of flaws or uncertainties.
• Work in your IWB everyday! Yes, EVERYDAY.

ACCEPTABLE:
• Photographs/images related to ideas or products being pursued.
• Images should not take up over 2/3 of the page.
• Relevant materials from other disciplines (Math, TOK, Literature)
• Material documenting a museum/gallery experience.
• Typed responses to artists, materials, techniques etc.
• Material experimentation and documentation.
• Unanswered questions, thoughts and ideas.

UNACCEPTABLE:
• Lengthy biographies or printed information without student interaction.
• Photographs/images that are irrelevant to ideas or products.
• Class handouts.
• Editing pages (blacking out, tearing out etc.)
• Skipping pages.
• Not using citations.
• Writing in large print simply to “fill space”.
• Blank pages or space in pages.

What you Need to know . . .

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Welcome to IB Digital Arts. This course is very exciting, not only for the students, but also for me to teach. This intensive two year course guides students to develop aesthetic, conceptual, technical and cultural knowledge of both digital media and visual arts. It is structured to encourage individual exploration of a variety of media, art styles, movements, cultures and societies. The culminating event for the senior student is the IB Visual Arts Examination. This exam is given by an independent, trained IB examiner and is an art exhibition of the studio work and research created over the two year period.

Each student is assessed a $40.00 fee which covers your IWB and a small portion of the materials you will consume over the course. All materials should be checked out using the “Materials Checkout” notebook.


-- Grading --

The Student's grade will reflect the work done on their independent projects, guided projects, assignments, IWB - investigative workbook and participation.


Projects: Students should be completing a MINIMUM of FOUR studio products each quarter for a total of 16 works during the course of the year. These projects will be graded on completion, its documentation (planning and process) and and overall presentation. While products will not be “due” every two weeks, students should pace themselves so as to complete the required products each quarter.


IWB: You will be expected to complete 10 pages (10 points per page) in your IWB every two weeks. You will receive 100 points, simply for turning your IWB in on time. An additional 100 points will be earned for the content of your pages. Due to our school schedule, this may be lengthened by a day or two occasionally. A schedule of due dates will follow, along with specific IWB requirements.


Students will be required to compose an artist’s statement (300 words) that will develop into their candidate statement used for examination purposes. This will be an ongoing process being checked 2-3 times during the year.


Students will be required to keep an ongoing portfolio of digital images as an archive as well as for documentation for your Candidate Record Booklet and IB Examination. These photos (ideally) will be taken as products are completed.


Each Friday will be a designated “hands-on day” devoted to a more spontaneous drawing. These can be used in support of a candidates studio work and could very well develop into full products.


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Dan Cornell - DCornell2@cherrycreekschools.org

UPDATE!!! Here are some Exam updates . . .

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IWB pages can NOT be reduced 50% and doubled up. If they are, only the number of pages specified in the guide can be looked at.

Photos can NOT be stacked (details/close-ups need to be in their own space). If more are included, only the number specified can be looked at.

Once the CRB has been signed by the student and teacher it can NOT be changed except for the addition of the 2 photos of the exhibit in the back. If a piece of work might be stronger than those included in the CRB, the CRB can NOT be changed out. Examiners are NOT to give students suggestions on which pieces are stronger and which should be included.