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Joan Thomas

Title: Manager, Visual Design Development
Email: jnthomas@utk.edu
Phone Number: (865) 974-7946
Office Number: 2442 Dunford Hall

Areas of Expertise: Graphic Design, interface design, information architecture, print publication, and visual literacy.

Research Interests: Visual architecture and Interface design, typography in print and electronic media, digitally driven communication and publishing, and collage experimentation, photography, line drawing and typography.

Background Information: Concentration in the translation of print-based materials into digital publishing, Web design and multimedia.

Vitae

Education:

• MFA, Graphic Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998
• BFA, Graphic Design, University of Georgia, Athens, 1985

Classes and Workshops Taught:

• Facilitating Student Knowledge Building through Multimedia,
  Proposal accepted to teach a 3 hour workshop at the 2005 Tenth Annual Instructional Technology Conference: Building Communities of Learners, Middle Tennessee State University
• Special workshops to train grant recipients on planning and designing a Web-based instructional module, customized and taught at UT Knoxville, UT Chattanooga, UT Memphis, Forestry Department Grant Initiative
• Creating Forms with Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Creating a Professional Web Site with Macromedia Fireworks and DreamWeaver
• International Newspaper Institute, taught Designing an Online Newspaper Using Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver
• Basic concepts and intermediate level techniques for using Adobe Photoshop
• Redesign and Visualize a Blackboard Course with Photoshop, iMovie, and GoldWave
• Video Production Workshop: using digital cameras, editing with Adobe Premier, iMovie,
  and compressing with Cleaner 5
• Designing an Instructional Web Site Using Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Introduction and Advanced Uses of Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Putting Your Images Into the Round: Creating VR Images and Objects
• Capturing and Editing Audio using GoldWave
• Beyond Text: Introduction to the incorporation of still images, animation, audio, and video
  into your online course materials
• Learning Netscape Composer
• Image Compression and Enhancement Using Adobe Image Ready
• Graduate Teaching Associate in Graphic Design, UT 1996-1997
• Graduate Teaching Assistant in Graphic Design, UT 1995-1996