Portfolio of evidence

Design TECH

Digital Animation

Illustrator - Wacom Tablet - Creating a Cartoon

Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Illustrator - Pen & brush tool

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Refine and modify media artworks, honing aesthetic quality and intentionally accentuating stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of personal goals and preferences.

Domain: Lesson Design/Innovation/Tools and Technology/Student Engagement/

Objective: Students will learn the brush tools in Illustrator, and be able to utilize the brushes to create graphics.

Brief description of the activity: In this activity SS designed their favorite cartoon using the Wacom tablet in Illustrator and the pen and brush tool finding a picture to obtain the idea.

Perspective Tool - Creating one part of the school using the perspective tool

Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Illustrator - Perspective tool

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Refine and modify media artworks, honing aesthetic quality and intentionally accentuating stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of personal goals and preferences.

Objective: Create 3d drawings using the perspective grid

Domain: Planning and Preparation/ Tools and Technology/Student Engagement/

Brief description of the activity: In this activity they took a picture from one part of the school the purpose is to use the perspective tools and shapes to recreate the same picture.

Sundial Magazine Cover Page

Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Photoshop - Final Project

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Demonstrate progression in artistic, design, technical, and soft skills, as a result of selecting and fulfilling specified roles in the production of a variety of media artworks.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Tools and Technology/ Feedback and Assessment/

Objective: This is a chance to leave your mark on this lovely school. You will be creating a magazine cover for the Sundial Magazine using what you have learned in class.

Brief description of the activity: SS made a cover page for our sundial magazine, they have to apply what they have learned in class, at the end of the activity we choose a winner.

Creating logos in Illustrator

Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Illustrator - Logos

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Use identified generative methods to formulate multiple ideas, develop artistic goals, and problem solve in media arts creation processes.

Domain: Planning and Preparation/ Tools and Technology/ Innovation

Brief description of the activity: SS designed logos for different types of companies according with their necessities - School, Hospital etc.

STEM LAB. - Using the CNC Machine

Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Illustrator - Final project

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Demonstrate adaptation and innovation through the combination of tools, techniques and content, in standard and innovative ways, to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement / Social Emotional Learning/

Objective: The goal of this project is to design a cool SVG and carve it in the CNC machine.

Brief description of the activity: Students designed a logo in illustrator, they exported the SVG file and selected the type of material (wood) to carve their work using the CNC Machine

Working with the green wall

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Chroma Key

HS Grade Level: 10 - 12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Planning and Preparation/ Managing the Environment/ Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement

Objective: Understand the difference between the foreground and background layers of a green screen effect.

Brief description of the activity: In this activity SS created videos using the chroma key and the green wall in teams, the purpose of this activity is to use different scenarios and film in the same place.

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Working with the script

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Script

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Apply aesthetic criteria in developing, proposing, and refining artistic ideas, plans, prototypes, and production processes for media arts productions, considering original inspirations, goals, and presentation context.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Tools and Technology / Student Engagement / Feedback and Assessment /

Objective: Upon completion of this assignment, the student will be able to write a script for a movie according to the requirements presented.

Brief description of the activity: SS created a script for a commercial

Importance of Lighting in Video Production

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Importance of Lighting in Video Production

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Delivery of Instruction / Student Engagement

Objective: SS will learn the significance of camera lighting.

Brief description of the activity: In this activity students learned how important is the light when you're filming, we used the new equipment of the library.

Winners - Personal Project # 2

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Final Project

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Social Emotional Learning / Global Leadership/ Feedback and Assessment

Objective: SS will develop presentation skills

Brief description of the activity: SS created a presentation about their video, the topic of their video and why they choose that idea then we watched the video in group at the end of the activity we choose a winner they won an "Oscar" that represents a 100 in the activity.

20 DIFFERENT SHOT ANGLES

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: SHOT ANGLES

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Tools and Technology / Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement / Planning and Preparation

Objective: In this lesson, students examine the visual codes used on television and in movies through an exploration of various camera techniques.

Brief description of the activity: Students began with a discussion about camera-subject distance, and reviewed various film techniques that are used to create visual meaning then they created an original video explaining each type of shot.

Creating a Commercial for a product

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Using photoshop/Illustrator in Premiere

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Tools and Technology / Delivery of Instruction / Feedback and Assessment

Objective: Students will review current and popular television commercials that use music to advertise the product. Students will then create their own product commercial and use either self recorded or other music to advertise.

Brief description of the activity: SS Created logos in photoshop/ illustrator and they exported as a SVG file and they added them to their videos with effects in each object of the picture.

BROADCASTING NEWS

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Creating a show

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Global Leadership/ Social Emotional Learning / Feedback and Assessment / Student Engagement / Delivery of Instruction / Tool and Technology / Planning and Preparation

Objective:

To understand that news is not news unless you share it with an audience
To develop an awareness of the issues surrounding sharing news online and to become responsible digital citizens

Brief description of the activity: SS recollected news from our school, and they organized everything into one video. They made a News Show.

Sweded Video

Subject: Digital Video Editing

Topic: Sweded Videos

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Global Leadership/ Social Emotional Learning / Feedback and Assessment / Student Engagement / Delivery of Instruction / Tool and Technology / Planning and Preparation

Objective: SS will take the best and worst movies to come out of Hollywood in the past 30 years, and combines them with the genius and ingenuity of their greatest fans. With an emphasis on comedy and a commitment to low-cost production.

Brief description of the activity: students looked for some ideas (Movies, trailers, commercials) and they created a sweded video using basic resources.

Illustrator Final Project

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Subject: Digital Arts

Topic: Illustrator - Final project

HS Grade Level: 10th

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Integrate various arts, media arts forms, and content into unified media arts productions, considering the reaction and interaction of the audience, such as experiential design.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement / Social Emotional Learning/ Global Leadership

Brief description of the activity: students presented their final work, they carve their design and made a presentation in order to explain the tools that they used in this project.

Buying a computer presentation

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Buying a computer presentation

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Subject: Computers 9

Topic: Intro to CS

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Recommend improvements to the design of computing devices, based on an analysis of how users interact with the devices.

Domain: Global Leadership / Social Emotional Learning / Feedback and Assessment / Student Engagement / Tools and Technology / Managing the environment / Planning and Preparation /

Objective: SS will learn about the different types of computers, their components and options

Brief description of the activity:

Teacher will give them a worksheet with different scenarios , you are asked to help select a computer to purchase (you may choose desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablets, all-in-ones, etc.) In selecting a computer, you want to buy the most possible features for the amount of money that has been allocated for the purchase... essentially, the best value.

Based upon the needs of the people in each situation, help them find the best computer to purchase. You will need to consider required RAM, hard drive size, speed, whether or not to include a wireless network card, storage media (Flash, USB ports, DVD or DVD-RW), as well as the applications they will want to run.

Find a computer to recommend for each selected scenario. Use the Buying a Computer Worksheet to provide details of the products you have selected (i.e. RAM, speed, storage media, hard drive size, etc.) Also, any additional products/accessories that they should purchase later on based upon their plans for the computer.

Inside a Desktop Computer

Subject: Computers 9th

Topic: Intro to CS

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Systematically identify and fix problems with computing devices and their components.

Domain: Global Leadership / Social Emotional Learning / Feedback and Assessment / Student Engagement / Tools and Technology / Managing the environment / Planning and Preparation /

Objective:

To disassemble an assemble a desktop computer.
To identify specific components within a computer case.

Brief description of the activity:

According to what they learned, Students opened a computer to discover each internal part of the machine; they created a document with the name of each component, a picture and a brief description of the primary function.

Icebreaker - Activity: My favorite Place

Subject: Computers 9th

Topic: 1st class of the semester

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: NA

Domain: Global Leadership / Social Emotional Learning / Student Engagement / Planning and Preparation

Brief description of the activity: Students wrote the name of their favorite place around the world on the tope of the page with their name or nickname, the teacher gave them a color (different color per student) they draw an object or thing that relates with the color and the place. they passed the paper to the right till they got their sheet. at the end I asked them if that sheet looks like the place that they wrote on top. The reflection was that I have an idea of my class an they are going to contribute to make the class that I dream possible. They will be an important factor in my class.

What is a computer?

Subject: Computers 9

Topic: Intro to CS

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Explain how abstractions hide the underlying implementation details of computing systems embedded in everyday objects.

Domain: Planning and Preparation/ Managing the Environment/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement/ Feedback and Assessment / Global Leadership

Objectives. Upon completion of this lesson, students will be able to: discuss the different forms and types of computers that emerged throughout history.

Brief description of the activity: Students according with their previous knowledge of computers they design in teams the definition of a computer and the different types of computers that exist with one example, they expose their point of view and in group we create one definition taking the best idea of each work.

Database

Subject: Computers 9th

Topic: Data Analysis

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Represent data using multiple encoding schemes.

Domain: Planning and Preparation/ Managing the Environment/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement/ Feedback and Assessment / Global Leadership

Objective: Understand the data collection planning process.

Brief description of the activity: In this activity, students made tables and relationships with copies provided by the teacher to understand the importance of the data analysis. They found the primary key, and they mention what the function of it is.

3D Modeling

Subject: Digital Animation

Topic: 3D Modeling

HS Grade Level: 10-12

Standard: NCCAS media arts - Refine and modify media artworks, honing aesthetic quality and intentionally accentuating stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of personal goals and preferences.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement/

Objective: Students will gain a basic understanding of the 3D printing process

Brief description of the activity: In this activity, students printed the model that they made in tinkercad. They made a report of the tools that they used and a brief explanation of how a 3D printer works.

Database - Differentiation

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Subject: Computers 9th

Topic: Data Analysis

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement / Social Emotional Learning/ Differentiation

Objective: Understand the data collection planning process.

Brief description of the activity: For some students it is difficult to copy from the board, or the way in which they understand is different, for some exercises, I printed the work, and I make it shorter in that way the student will finish at the same time, and they are going to develop the same skills.

Review / Unit 1 - Intro to CS in Kahoot

Subject: Computers 9th

Topic: Review Unit 1 - Intro to CS

HS Grade Level: 9th

Standard: CSTA computer science - Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable.

Domain: Planning and Preparation / Managing the Environment / Tools and Technology/ Delivery of Instruction/ Student Engagement / Social Emotional Learning/

Objective: SS will make a review of the unit 1

Brief description of the activity: In this activity SS reviewed the terms that we learned during unit 1 with a game call kahoot. Kahoot is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time. Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet or computer.