Web Design: The Romans. Assignment 4

Step 1 Planning: Produce a navigation tree of your website showing each page and it's content.

Step 2 Paint.Net: Use the software to edit and combine images to create an attractive banner for your websites

Step 3 Making it!! Create a five page website in PowerPoint/Dream-weaver. Your website should include working buttons that link your pages together and should follow the rules for good website design (Dealine 23/11/2010)

Step 4: Review your work: Write a 1 page project review. Remember to set it up as a standard 1 page report. How did you think your web-site turned out? What makes a good website and how does yours compare? Ask others for their opinions and give suggestions for ways you could have improved your work.

Audacity: Creating an Advertisement or Public Service Announcement. Assignment 4

Step 1 Planning: Produce a script and a running order for your Audio. Make sure that it does what it is supposed to do. Does it get your message across clearly?

Step 2 Collect sound effects and Music Tracks: Try to only choose music and sound effects that make enhance (make better) your advertisement or PSA

Step 3 Record it!! Edit together the 'takes' and sound effects and music. Remember what is the 'audience' and the 'purpose' (Deadline Monday Nov 22nd)

Step 4 Upload It! Upload your Podcast to a Pod-casting server. You can use www.Podbean.com for this.

What makes a good website?

1. Don't make people think How will people get from page to page or from point A to point B? A clear structure and easily recognizable links can help users to find their path to their aim. This is called having good 'navigation'.

2. Focus Attention Obviously, images are more eye-catching than the text — just as the sentences marked as bold are more attractive than plain text.

3. Make use of effective writing Long text blocks will be skipped. Use images and keywords marked in bold or italics and keep your sentences short.

4. Strive for simplicity instead of complexity Provide users with a clean and simple design and don't be afraid of using 'white space'

Audacity: What do you know about sound? This is what we are going to be doing

RollerCoaster Tycoon: Assignment 3

Step 1 Vanilla Hills: Create a detailed mind-map in Prezi showing how you will invest your $10,000. Include all of the costs and the location of your new attractions/facilities (due 01/10/10).

Step 2 Vanilla Hills: Using RCT3 Follow your mind-map and make adjustments to your park to see if you can increase the number of guests in your park and increase weekly profit. How successful were your changes? Complete the Vanilla Hills evaluation worksheet describing what you found (due 05/10/10).

Step 3 Database quiz. Make sure that you know your key terms such as Field, Query, Record and Primary Key.

Step 4 Fright Night: You must design a suitable database structure to store all of the information about the staff. You will import a text file containing all of the staff details. Make sure that in your database each field has a suitable name, data type, format and length.

Step 5 Fright Night: Produce two 'Queries' to find 4 suitable members of staff to work in your theme park

How to Design a Good Poster?

When it comes to graphic design, perhaps the most exciting type of project to undertake is the poster. The poster is generally a simple attempt to attract attention and communicate basic information.

Get Attention.Your first task is to decide on captivating photograph or an interesting main text element that will make people stop and take notice (a focal point).

Simple is Nice.Your poster should say what it means through pictures and colours rather than through words and written details. Keep text to a minimum

Fantastic Fonts If your fonts are a little unusual or unique, this will add to the depth of your design. Try to avoid common fonts that might be used on a standard document or for an everyday purpose. On the other hand, don’t use fonts that are crazy to the point of being hard to read.

Colour Correctly.  Try to use a colour scheme that is fundamentally correct. Respect the basic rules or colour theory.

Displays good balance. To tell if your layout is balanced, divide your page in half and compare the number of things on either side of the page to each other. Try this diagonally as well.

Information and Reliability: Assignment 2

Step 1: You will create a six question survey to find out about your classmates favorite musician/singer/sportsperson for AIS News (send your questionnaire to a minimum of six people).

Step 2: Create an article for AIS News using Microsoft Publisher about your classmate’s favorite musician/singer/sportsperson

Step 3: Write a report which assesses the information that you find and determines whether or not it is reliable enough to be included in the newspaper. You will give reasons as to why this is, or is not, the case. You must say what techniques you used to search the Internet

Step 4: Complete an Assessment of the work done so far in this unit (Quiz)

 Step 5: Create a poster which communicates six easy steps for checking the reliability of information on websites.

Grade 7 Assignment 1: Organising a Music Event

You are going to organize a music event at AIS. You only have $100 dollars to spend on it and there are many costs to consider. However, you can earn extra money to pay for things by selling tickets and food for the event.

First: Design a spreadsheet that will calculate whether it is possible to hold the event. You will use functions and formula to calculate the totals. It must also help you decide on the prices of things such as tickets and food. Finally, it should show you if you can make a profit or not!

Costs
DJ (Hire) - $50
Music PA system (Hire) - $30
Lights (Hire) $30
Caretaker - $5
Cooks - $20

Second: Design an attractive poster which will advertise the music event. You should include ticket prices and the price of food available to buy.

Grade 8 Assignment 1: Planning a trip to New York

You will learn how to manage a budget and organise a trip. The aim of the project is to create a spreadsheet which  will calculate the costs for a class trip to New York and which will tell you whether the trip is possible or not.

First: Create an itinerary including the following minimum elements

• Flights (There and Back)
• Accomodation
• Trips 

Using the Internet you will need to find the costs of each trip, accomodation and flights. You will complete a trip worksheet using the research you have gathered.

Second: Create a layout for the New York Budget spreadsheet using the example given.

• You will complete the revenue worksheet and add it to your spreadsheet.
• You will use functions and formula to calculate the totals.Calculate how much each student will need to pay over a four month period. Is the trip over budget or under budget?
• Create a chart showing the costs of each trip and the flights

Third: Create a leaflet giving all of the relevant information to parents about the trip and the different activities on it such as where the trips are, Cost breakdown of the trip and flight information. .

Can you make cartoons?

GoAnimate is a cool new online program for designing and creating your own animations. Use it as an exiting new way to present information, or just for fun! It's free, so enjoy

Powerpoint....or Prezi?

Why should you move beyond slides? on Prezi

Why Spreadsheets?

I have just been reading Terry Freedman's post on Excel spreadsheets and I was so pleased to see someone voicing my thoughts.

This spreadsheet was used for children to check their tables, there are different worksheets for each one.


I love spreadsheets for all sorts of things and you can make many that can be used in all sorts of interesting and useful ways.

This idea is simple and can be used in any subject area. It uses a if/then statement, it changes the red sad face to a smiling green one and gives the user their score.


I have found some ideas like this to be really useful and fun to use in the classroom.