PowerPoint

PowerPoint Assignment 1 - Diversity PSA - Laws do not always address the needs of the minority.  Explore what messages can be said to promote diversity that law may or may not encompass.  Create a "Public Service Announcement" (PSA) about diversity.  Make a minimum of 7 slides and have the slides auto-run in a loop.  At least one slide should be a visual metaphor.  There are many diversity themes, but see me if you have troubles understanding.  Here is a partial exemplar for this assignment.  Here is a copy of the rubric and the Word version for teachers to modify.  This is a formative assignment and will check to see if you have learned the taught skills.

Recently, I have had more students picking themes with dark backgrounds.  It's not usually a problem when presenting with a projector, however, it can cause problems for people viewing on a monitor.  Here's a website with a technical explanation.  Here's a website talking about it for websites.

Here are the short videos that address the rubric:

• Contrast, change theme and layouts
• Layouts and insert images
• More layouts and text
• Transitions and kiosk mode
• Animations
• Reduce File Size
• old videos for Mac PowerPoint 2011
• old - Meaningful filename and title
• old - Change theme and layouts
• old - Good use of contrast
• old - Add images
• old - Auto-looping and transitions
• old - Animations
• old - Reducing file size

Submit your PowerPoint on ManageBac when you are done!  Make sure that you give this assignment a meaningful name.

PowerPoint Assignment 2 - Teach Me How to Do Something - In societies, we teach each other things so that we can grow and have more meaningful interactions.  "Teach Me Something I Don't Know".  Create a slideshow to teach the class how to do something that requires at least 8 steps (do a skateboard trick, score a goal in hockey, create a favourite dish, create an elaborate hair style...)  Make sure you get images from different sources (websites).  Make sure you paraphrase and add personal details to each step - it should not be basic information from websites and books.  For instance, talk about overcoming difficult steps, substitute with different ingredients or materials, where common mistakes occur, etc. You can use appropriate animations and transitions but make sure they are fast and that there aren't too many animations on a slide.  There should only be one mouse click per slide.  Practice the presentation, because you will be doing a class presentation.  Here is a copy of the rubric and the Word version for teachers to modify.  You will be assessed on Criteria B and C.

Here is the short video that addresses the rubric:

• Creating and practising presentation notes

Here are some tips for giving a great presentation:

• rehearse, rehearse, and REHEARSE!
• be relaxed and don't talk too quickly.
• try to make eye contact with everyone in the audience.
• speak confidently.
• use humour only if it is part of your personality.
• keep the bullet points short (memorize the rest or use presenter view)

Submit your PowerPoint on ManageBac when you are done!  Make sure that you give this assignment a meaningful name.

PhotoShop

Make sure you save the PhotoShop document with the ".psd" extension.  You need to upload the PhotoShop file and a ".jpg".  No upscaling is permitted, only downscaling is allowed.  PhotoShop is rather expensive.  If you need to work at home, you can try downloading a 7 day evaluation copy.  If you need it for longer, try an online version that has most of the functionality:  Photopea.

PhotoShop Assignment 1 - Wacky Faces - Express diversity by blending 2 faces together.  Replace the face in one photo with a face from another photo.  You must use masks to complete this assignment; set opacity on the background to 50% so that you can line up the faces; add a "layer mask" to "reveal all"; then paint the face area black to let the other face show through.  Make sure that you put the opacity back to 100% at the end because this is a test of blending not using the opacity setting!  Challenge yourself by choosing faces that don't line up perfectly and have different skin tones.  The other goal of this assignment is to match skins tones by using brightness, contrast and hue adjustments.  Do not flatten the image or apply layer mask.  Here is a copy of the rubric and the Word version for teachers to modify.  This is a formative assignment and will check to see if you have learned the taught skills.

Here are the skills that you will need:

• Advice for choosing images (2018)
• Importing and initial sizing of faces (using Photopea 2018)
• Using layer masks (using Photopea 2018)
• Adjusting colour and lighting (using Photopea 2018)
• Resizing and saving (using Photopea 2018)
• not required - Colourize a layer (using Photopea 2018)

Submit your PhotoShop image on ManageBac when you are done!  Make sure that you give this assignment a meaningful name.

Student Work

PhotoShop Assignment 2 - Diversity Poster - You've used diversity images in your PowerPoint presentation. Now it's time to create your own diversity image using metaphors. Use several different image sources for duplication (at least 6) and use the rubric to include features to enhance your creation; you may want to do a collage to hit all the rubric points.  You should include a high-resolution background image and a text message that promotes accepting diversity.  This assignment is to show that you can duplicate, scale, and rotate objects so make sure you do some scaling and rotation.  Before working on your project, you need to do some research and make a hand-drawn design.  Show me your design and I will initial it then you can start working on it.  Here is a copy of the rubric and the Word version for teachers to modify.  You will be assessed on Criteria A and D.

Here are some ideas to inspire you:

Here are the skills that you will need:

• Doing the 4 designs on paper
• old - Creating linked smart objects
• Importing and initial sizing background (Photopea 2018)
• Placing linked smart objects
• Duplicating, rotating, renaming, and ordering smart objects
• Adding the text message (Photopea 2018)
• not required - Using the paint bucket tool (Photopea 2018)
• Final clean and submission (Photopea 2018)

Submit your Photoshop image on ManageBac when you are done!  Make sure that you give this assignment a meaningful name.

Coding

Code.org is a good start to understanding what computer programming is.  The only problem is the website is constantly changing.  It's best to sign in with your Google, Facebook, or Microsoft account - that way you don't need a new log-in.  Here are the links to the assignments that you should be trying:  Code.org exercises

Call me over when you complete one of the assignments.  Note that block programming is an introduction - it hides the complexity of programming in languages so you are limited with what you can do with blocks.

Bonus Work

GarageBand - This lesson will show you how to make a ditty (short song) using loops and software instruments.  Here is a link to the musical staff if you are unfamiliar with reading music.  I don't know too much about music theory, but you can construct a sequence of notes using chords - hopefully, music teachers and musicians won't cringe too much.  Try to vary the rhythm so that they aren't all quarter notes.  If you're feeling confident, you can try to do chord progressions:  Autochords, Common Chord Progressions, and Wikipedia.

Here is the video for the project.  Rubric:  create a song with at least 4 bars and 1 Apple loop for bonus marks.

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