Practical Fashion Tech: Wearable Technologies for Costuming, Cosplay, and Everyday

Appendix A: Teaching Fashion Tech

For those who want to teach a fashion tech class that covers much of the material in this book, this appendix lays out some of the things you might want to think about. We also have laid out some sample course details based on the projects in this book.

The material in this appendix is based on lessons learned by Lyn over many years of teaching a variety of classes at the high school level, and on Joan’s experience teaching undergrads and grad students. We are also drawing on anecdotal evidence the three authors have of the results of various colleagues’ experiments, as well as on a pilot version of a fashion tech costuming class that Lyn taught with Joan and Rich as consultants.

Course Objectives and Grading

A year-long ...