About ITC
ITC Team
Joan Thomas
Title: Manager, Visual Design Development
Email: jnthomas@utk.edu
Phone Number: (865) 974-7946
Office Number: 113 Kingston Pike Building
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 Premiere, 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