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

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