SBMS Website, Digital Arts, Teen Press,
Tech, Expedition Staff
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Hi, I'm DAVID TETON-LANDIS, and I started on Staff in 2005, started teaching electives the next year and joined the full-time Faculty in 2007. I have one son, Jacob, who graduated with the Class of 2006. My academic background is in psychology (BA & MA) and dance (MFA), and I was a professional dancer in New York 20 years ago with the Mark Morris Dance Group. "Retiring" to Hawaii, I began working in digital media, and worked for Tom Coffman Multimedia before forming my own company, LUMINOUS Interactive Digital Media, which I ran until this year when I joined SBMS. Here I help with Faculty/Staff tech support and the website in the mornings, and teach digital media classes in the afternoons.
Students: Here are links to the current courses I'm teaching. Follow the link to the one that applies to you--or whichever one you are interested in finding out more about!
SBMS Teen Press
Taught with John Seigel-Boettner, this is an "honors course" which requires an application and multiple teacher review for admittance. This trimester the Teen Press will be reporting on MacWorld and the 23rd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival in addition to local and international stories.
Flashy Animation
This is an introductory Digital Arts class covering the concepts and techniques of digital animation using Adobe FLASH. Find out more on the course by following the link!
More, More Flash
This intermediate Digital Arts class is available in the latter half of the year, and introduces basic programming techniques through the development of simple games.
Designing The Web
Another introductory Digital Arts class, we think about design issues and techniques for web pages. Class members create the visual design for their websites using Adobe Photoshop, then transfer relevant elements of that design into Adobe Dreamweaver, where the page content and functions are developed. Follow the link for more information!