Spreadsheet Modelling Practice Test

Year 9 Poster Design Project

Poster Design Project

Arsenic and Old Lace was made into a movie in 1944 staring Carry Grant. Check out the movie trailer for below; it might give you some inspiration. 

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Project Rubric

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 visual 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.

Not happy with your grades? Do something about it

You can re-submit your work at any time if you would like your work to be re-graded.

Send emails to mik.waldron@gmail.com

The Journey of a Tweet

Project 1

Digital Citizenship: Keywords

Year 7: Project 1 Cartoon Story Telling

You will use Pixton to create a cartoon story modeled after the story of Brittney. 

The story should be about something that was supposed to remain private but became public online. The story can be about yourself, your friends, or someone else you have heard of. 

To succeed your story should incorporate (use) and explain the following keywords that you have learnt so far in this unit, told in an imaginative way

Digital Media
Opportunity
Pitfall
Cyber Bullying
Inappropriate
Empathize
Sharing

Deadline October 12th

Introduction Activity: Create a Digital Story

Make a photo story of your digital lives. 

Select pictures that represent your digital life: your favorite digital media (Internet, cell phones, mobile media, etc.), how you use them, when you use them, what you do with them, and why. 

You can choose which software you use to complete this task Suggestions; PowerPoint, iMovie, Moviemaker, Powtoon etc...

Arrange your content in a presentation. Below each slide you must write a few sentences describing each picture. The sentence can explain what you are doing, when, and why.

Tip: make sure pictures and sentences fit together to tell a story.  It may be better to incorporate sound and movie files

DEADLINE Wednesday 03rd September

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Resources

SoundBible 

Freeplay 

Creative Commons 
Inserting Powerpoint Images
Youtube  Downloader (Download)

Digital Footprint

Adding a Widget

1. Set up a Twitter account and add the twitter gadget to your blog. (on Blog layout go to add gadget. Select HTML/Java Script

Grab the code from this website

http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets 
Copy and paste the code that is generated into the box

Twitter Tips

So, how is Twitter different?

Your first Blog post

For your first blog post I want to you to write two paragraphs.

1 An introduction. Tell me something about yourself

2 Secondly. I want you to set yourself two targets for ICT. What would you like to accomplish in our technology class this year. This could be learning something new (a skill, or learning how to use a piece of software, or something unspecific like time management and handing your work in on time). Alternatively it could be something you did last year that you would like to improve on.

Student Survey

Set-up a Google account

Class Blog Discovery

WELCOME BACK

This is our class blog. The class blog allows for communication between teacher and students, but it also allow communication between students. Along with Twitter, this a forum where you can express your thoughts, feelings, and ideas about our technology class. Using the blog often and participating in discussion will create a digital learning community that can benefit us all in a multitude of ways. 

Your task is to browse this website. Click on links to other sights, watch videos, read about assignments, browse the photo feed and twitter feed, and view other students' contributions and websites. After browsing the site, please answer the following questions about what you have found.

1. Name
2. Year Group
3. Tell one thing you liked about the site.
4. Tell one thing that could be improved, or tell about something you would like to see on the site
5. List two things we will be leaning this year
6. Tell one thing you liked about the site.
7. What supplies will you need for every class?
8. What should happen in the first 5 minutes of every class

Grade 8 Project 2 Information Reliability, The Media and Propaganda

Click to see Project Overview and ITSE Assessment Standards

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Part 1 GROUP WORK

You will be given one of the following research briefs. You will be expected to work as a group to research and create a presentation using any appropriate software (maximum of six slides, or equivalent).

       

• Israel be recognized as its own 'sovereign' country by the Palestinians
• Palestine should receive aid from Europe and America.
• Israel should have to stop building settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. 
• Palestinian military groups are justified in using suicide bombers
• The United States should give $3 billion per year in military grants + aid to Israel

You can use any information you think is suitable but you are expected to source all of the information you use in the Information Sources Table and acknowledge the reliability of your information and if propaganda is likely to exist.

You are expected to make your presentation an interactive experience by including a wide range of copyright free digital sources; to demonstrate your understanding of international law.

Part 2 INDIVIDUAL WORK

Use this worksheet to create your own ePortfolio which demonstrates your learning of the standards in this project

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Resources

Information Sources Table Guide

Copyright Free Media at Creative Commons and Freeplay
ePortfolio Guide
Project Review

Project Rubric

Information Reliability: Propaganda techniques

You are being influenced

Knowledge is the key to protecting yourself

Bandwagon



Scapegoating



Lesser of two evils



Down with the kids



Assertion



Omission