I'm keeping the daily agenda in English as many parents have requested. However, the site will be in french as the students will be working in French throughout this semester.
Thursday
First Day of the Term - Introductions
Systems Check - Computers - Computer Accounts - Google Accounts
What's the course about? Course Structure HardTech and SoftTech
CONGRATULATIONS! You found the Agenda!
FIRST STEP, CREATE A BOOKMARK WITH MY SITE (CLICK HERE)
SET UP your computer by SYNCing CHROME and Setting up Windows
BOOKMARK this page from your school account, and bookmark it at home as well
FILE MANAGEMENT: We're messing with files today - Where can you store and retrieve them?
RULES
What does RTM mean?
AUP Rules - Lab Rules
FORMAT vs CONTENT
What's the payoff for following the rules?
Be sure to properly SHUT DOWN your computer after you're done - See you tomorrow!
More on Thursday
Join our Google Classroom - check for notes there
TODAY'S TASK: GoogleSites - You're making a website portfolio today!
Create a TIJ1O Portfolio Site before the end of this period: Do NOT customize it with alternate themes, colours or fonts - just follow the plan as written.
Be sure that you've shared your new portfolio with Eric Leduc as an EDITOR
Be sure that you register your portfolio address using the form on the front page of your new portfolio. If it fails - look for a link on the Portfolio Gallery
Read "Controlling Pages" and complete all the tasks listed - Create and organize pages you think will be used in this course
Add appropriate bookmarks to Chrome for today's activities
DONE?
Create your own website. The first page should be an introduction of yourself. Things to include would/could be;
Intro
Sports/Hobbies
Love of pets
Place of travel
Career in the future
Friday
Today - complete your website home page.
Time to learn Photoshop - Building a Happy Face
Monday
Complete the Happy Face assignment
PHOTOGRAPHY - Take a GOOD photo that will work in our next assignment, the BANNER
Work on the Logo exercise
Tuesday
Portfolio Audit
Complete any missing exercises from the Audit
Complete the Emoji exercise and add it to a NEW PAGE on your portfolio
Complete the Logo exercise and insert it into your banner
Wednesday
3D modelling with Anim8or
Follow the Anim8or tutorial in this wiki
Saucer Assignment for Anim8or: Intro, Moving around and Materials
Thursday
Saucer Assignment for Anim8or: Intro, Moving around and Materials
Friday
Saucer Assignment for Anim8or: Intro, Moving around and Materials
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Make a Saucer Poster!
Take a Photo;
Render a matching pic in Anim8or;
Photoshop it together!
Thursday
Saucer Poster exercise
Friday
Saucer Poster Rubric
Monday
The Audio Unit - How important is SOUND to modern media?
Record your voice with your mobile device, or a USB Headset borrowed from the teacher
Begin the Countdown Exercise
Tuesday
Complete and POST the Countdown Exercise to your portfolio
Begin your OWN "Best song of the year" promo
use this site to convert your you tube to .mp3
Every student groups 7-10 music clips of their choice
Every clip should be about 5 seconds
Put all the clips together and for a dance promo
Exemple 1
your voice creates the announcement
your music plays in the background
Exemple 2
Music and voice mix and follow each other
Wednesday
Continue developing your "Best song of the year" project
Thursday
Embed your audio files into your Portfolio
Friday
Complete your "Best song of the year" project. Submit and post it on your portfolio through SoundCloud
Monday
Intro to Flash Animation - Setup - Symbols and Frame by frame
Begin your Splashpage Animation project: Part One: Tweening
Tuesday
Create frames
F5 vs. F6
Create text/circle
modify shape (3 select tools)
colour
Copy Frames
Reverse Frames
Create a bouncing ball
Create a flying bird
Wednesday
Thursday
Tweening
Part1 Tweening Location of objects
Part2 Tweening Opacity and Size
Part3 Easing Motion
Friday
Finish Animation assignment
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Create a Flash Animation that incorporates both, Flash and Audacity. The activity consist of creating a funny 15-30 second clip. Voting for the best funny clip will take place on Friday.
For those who haven't finish the Audacity announcement assignment, you have until Friday.
Wednesday
Continue developing your funny animation
Thursday
Continue developing your funny animation
Friday
Funny Clip Contest. Part of the class will be dedicated as a show and tell. Each group will present their funny clip creation. Members of the class will vote to determine the top three clips of the class.
(Last two days of this semester will be for individual student summative presentation)
Monday
Prepare a website that talks about an environmental issue you care about
You need to use 4 of the 5 soft tech component we have learned
Website Design
Photoshop
Anim8or
Audacity
Flash
Your site must include a page per section learned and a conclusion
Tuesday
Summative
Wednesday
Summative
Thursday
Summative
Friday
Summative