Grade 7 TET Homework

Choose two versions of the same news story. A paper based version (for example a newspaper and a magazine) and an electronic version (for example on the Internet, television or the radio).

1)      Make notes about the differences and similarities of the two versions.

What are the special features available to the viewers of electronic news stories that are not available to the readers of paper based news stories? : for example, a news item on an Internet site could include video and interactive still images but a newspaper report could not; 

2)      Describe how these special features could change a readers or listeners judgment about the reliability, or trustworthiness, of the information.

This useful website will help you

Grade 8 TET Homework

This website can be used to enable you to find out, or try to remember, the main theory about spreadsheet. Make notes in your ICT notebooks for reference

There are questions towards the end which will check your understanding.

You will be given a spreadsheets quiz after the holidays.

Hall of Fame: Grade 8 Vanilla Hills Publicity Poster

Well done to the Zou, Susan, Lucky, ViVi and Lisa!! Your publicity posters for Vanilla Hills demonstrated the very best techniques and followed all of the golden rules of good design: Fantastic Fonts, Simple is Nice, Color Correctly, Get Attention and Display Good Balance. Congrats...

 

Grade 8: Assignment 1, Part 2. Leaflet Design

Grade 8: Assignment 1, Part 1. Poster Design

 FYI: Rules of Good Poster Design

Six Awesome Rules for Designing a Logo

1.Logo's should be able to Use on a variety of media. A modern logo can be used in print, in a very high-resolution, on a site, on a banner, on business cards, and even on T-shirts. A solution for this is to realize a logo should be very simple or versatile.

2.Logo's should be easy to memorize and understand for everybody. Once again simplicity is the key of logo design.

Color of Logo: When we see blue it make me dream about the sea, red means for danger or forbidden things, green makes me feel calm and makes me think of grass and nature. Using these colors in the right context controls our thoughts in a good way.

Shape of Logo: The shape of a logo is another important part: a complicated shape puts people in a difficult position, it is hard to see the drawing…the message surely is totally strange for them.

3.Logo's should be able to answer the questions: why? , who? , what? The logo should inspire us to think of the product in the way the company that produces it wants us to.

4.Logo's should be timeless. Being timeless means that time does not alter the quality of the logo. Style changes, but your logo should not. The Nike "swoosh'" is a design created in 1971 and it has never been modified.

 5. Logo's should be able to be displayed in black and white. Again, this rule invites your logo to be simple and increases the number of ways in which it can be displayed.

6.Your logo should be SIMPLE. Keep It Simple and Stupid. I believe that this is the most important rule. The conclusion is: in many cases simple things explain, and contain the message better, than a complicated things 

The Design Process

When a designer is given a problem to solve, they often break down the problem into a number of smaller more manageable activities.


This is not only easier than trying to solve the whole problem at once. These activities lead to what is often called the 'design process'.


The design process begins with a 'design brief'. This is a brief summary of the problem you are trying to solve and in a few words or sentences explains what you have been asked to do.

Grade 7 Assignment 1: Bizarre Facts

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