Monday, April 24, 2017

This week, April 24-28


Current Project: Design

Mini-Project:

  • Make a new holiday!
  • Use visual Design principles to create materials for it.

Learning Targets:

  • Articulate and apply design principles for effective communication and usability.
  • Use design software to create documents

Standards


  • 9-12.CI.1. apply advanced software features to redesign the appearance of word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
  • 9-12.CI.3. use a variety of media and formats to design, develop, publish, and present projects
  • 9-12.TC.10. identify common graphic, audio, and video file formats (e.g., jpeg, gif, bmp, mpeg, wav, wmv, mp3, avi, pdf)
  • 9-12.TC.12. demonstrate how to import/export text, graphics, or audio files


This week's agendas:

Monday


Individual Activity: Create an invitation to your holiday
  • Create an invitation for an event related to your holiday.
    • Group: brainstorm the info needed
    • Sketch ideas on paper
  • Success criteria: sketch that answers our design questions
  • Create your invitation digitally using lucidpress.com (sign in with your school Google email).
  • Check your design with our design questions

Tuesday

Turn in Invitation assignment

Working with other programs
File Types

  • jpg, png, gif, tiff, and pdf
  • using Pixlr to remove backgrounds

Assignment: Create a Brochure:

  1. Sketch out ideas for a trifold brochure that relates to your event.
    1. Brochure must have at least 4 sections of information and each section must have at least one paragraph or bulleted list.
    2. Use designs similar to what you used for your invitation.
    3. Use good design principles to make clear the hierarchy of information.
  2. Create the finished product using Lucidpress.
    1. Do NOT use a template
    2. DO use guides to make your brochure a trifold
    3. Include a least one image from which you have removed the background.

Copyright-Friendly Free Image Resources

Wednesday

Thursday

  • Brochure assignment due
  • Newsletter assignment

Friday

  • Article design in Google Docs.

Quizzes and Tests:

  • Quiz next week

Assignments:

  • Assignment #1: Event Invitation
  • Assignment #2: Brochure

Resources:

Monday, April 17, 2017

This week, April 17-21



Current Project: Design

Entry Document:

  • Make a new holiday!

Learning Targets:

  • Articulate and apply design principles in the creation of documents


This week's agendas:

Monday

Announcements
  • New Groups!
  • We're running out of school year! Conserve!

Group Activity: Create a holiday
  • Your group has been tasked with creating a new national holiday. As a group, you need to brainstorm holiday ideas. Pick one and write down:
    1. The name of the holiday
    2. The purpose of the holiday. Why is this holiday important?
    3. Image(s), symbol(s), and colors associated with the holiday.
    4. Customs or practices that are needed to celebrate the holiday.
  • Write this up in a Google Doc and share with me via Google Classroom.
  • Success criteria: 
    • A document, written in complete sentences, with all of the information asked for above.
    • #2 and #4 should be short paragraphs. Bullet points are acceptable for #3. 
    • Names of the group should be listed at the top of the document.

Tuesday

Group Activity: Comparing Designs
  • Look at these design examples. There are 4 pairs of good and bad design examples.
  • As a group, identify at least 3 visual qualities that make the good design better than the bad design.
  • Success criteria: Take one sheet of paper per group. Divide it into quadrants and number them. In each quadrant write down 3 ways that one design is better than the other. Be specific (i.e. "The good design has bold subtitles which are easy to find" instead of "The good design is organized.")
Notes: Qualities of Good Design

Wednesday

  • Continue: Notes on Qualities of Good Design
  • Activity: Create an invitation for an event related to your holiday.
    • Group: brainstorm the info needed
    • Sketch ideas on paper
  • Success criteria: sketch that answers our design questions

Thursday

  • Activity:
  • Success criteria:

Friday

  • Activity:
  • Success criteria:

Quizzes and Tests:

Assignments:

  • Assignment #1:
  • Assignment #2:

Resources:

Monday, April 10, 2017

Week of 4/10–4/14



Current Project:

What makes a good design?

Learning Targets:

  • Articulate and apply design principles in the creation of documents

This week's agendas:

Monday

  • Check grades!!!!!!
  • Debrief software evaluations
  • Activity: Read this article on design, items 1-8
    • Each person takes two sections (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8)
    • For your sections:
      • summarize each principle
      • find an example on your own
      • explain your principles to your group
  • Success criteria:
    • Able to summarize and explain with examples

Tuesday

  • No School for freshmen

Wednesday

  • ½ Day
  • Continue work on Monday's assignment

Thursday

  • Activity:
  • Success criteria:

Friday

  • No School

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Today



This week's agendas:

Monday

  • Activity: Finish Websites

Tuesday

  • Activity:PSAT pre-id:

Wednesday

Thursday

  • Activity:
  • Success criteria:

Friday

  • Activity:
  • Success criteria:

Quizzes and Tests:

Assignments:

  • Assignment #1:
  • Assignment #2:

Resources:

  • Your notes
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