Week 1

Monday

Bell Ringer

Find your seat as indicated on the seating chart and fill out the information sheet.

Objectives

      1. Understand the class guidelines and procedures
      2. Review basic network procedures
      3. Learn to create an InDesign document, insert an image and add text
      4. Determine the difference between bitmap and vector images

Agenda

      1. Bell Ringer - Login in and fill out information sheet
      2. Grading, Class rules etc.
      3. Logging onto the Network
        1. Login name
        2. Password
        3. Email passwords?
      4. Directory Structure
        1. A,C,D,Y Drives
      5. Network Basics
        1. Changing Passwords
        2. Printing
          1. Where
          2. How to see if it made it to the printer (queues)
          3. When to print
        3. Getting an assignment
      6. Fireworks Intro - get all the files from K:\comp3\fwtut
      7. Closure

Assignments:

    1. Personal Introduction Page

 

Tuesday

Bell Ringer

Create a new Fireworks document. Make it 400 wide by 300 tall.

Make this image

Objectives

    1. To learn the selected Windows XP shortcuts and their uses
    2. Add an image to InDesign
    3. Use layers in an image
    4. Use selection tools
    5. Add a live effect
    6. Create a mask

Agenda

    1. BellRinger
    2. Fireworks Tutorial
    3. Review XP Shortcuts
    4. In Design basics/review
    5. Closure

Assignments:

  1. Personal Introduction Page
  2. Fireworks Tutorial

 

Wednesday

Bell Ringer

Choose a picture to edit and take a picture of yourself and save it to your Y drive.

Objectives

  1. Learn to set up a site in Dreamweaver
  2. Use layers in an image
  3. Use selection tools
  4. Add a live effect
  5. Create a mask

 

Agenda

Assignments:

Image editing project

Include

  • Selection tools
  • 2 Live effects
  • A Mask
  • Some text

Thursday

Bell Ringer

Get the imageeditquiz folder from the K drive

Image editing quiz - Make this picture

Using this picture and your picture - you can put your face on any character.

Add the text using making with this picture

Save the png file in the ImageEditingQuiz folder

Export the file as a quiz1.jpg into your imageeditquiz folder

Grade based on:

  • You must use the selection tools
  • Use layers to get the mask of the character over your face
  • Use 1 live effect to match the skin tone
  • Mask text to a pattern
  • Export as a jpg

 

Objectives

  1. Review image editing skills
  2. Dreamweaver - creating a site
  3. Creating a webpage
  4. Page preferences in Dreamweaver
  5. Previewing a document
  6. Adding links to a webpage

Agenda

  • Bell Ringer
  • Exporting InDesign Documents as a pdf
  • Creating a site in Dreamweaver
  • Page preferences
  • Adding links
  • Closure

Assignments:

Create portfolio

Export personal intro page

Add link to intro page in the portfolio

 

Friday

Bell Ringer

Review XP Shortcuts

Objectives

  1. Explore the workarea in InDesign
  2. Change the unit of measure in preferences
  3. Use drawing tools in InDesign
  4. Change arrangement and transparency of objects
  5. Apply text wrap to a graphic
  6. Work with text in a InDesign document

Agenda

  • Bell Ringer
  • XP Shortcuts Quiz
  • Finish Intro Pages and Portfolios - copy to K drive
  • InDesign booklets Activities 1 and 2
  • Shape poetry project
  • Work on InDesign activities 3-5
  • Closure

Assignments:

Shape poetry project

Find a childrens poem on the internet or another source.

Find and place an image in InDesign to go with it.

Use the drawing tools to draw a path in InDesign

Attach the text of the poem to the path.

Export the poem as a pdf and link it to your portfolio

Greeting Cards

 

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