TGJ2O/3M – Page 3

2017-01-102018-02-27

Light and Shadow — Greatest Cinematographers of the World, Interviewed

This is an incredibly inspiring video that will appeal not just to the videographers in your classroom but the photographers as well.

In my Communications Technology class, students are asked to watch the video and share a few inspirational quotes or messages they gleaned from it. I often create a Word Cloud with the results, similar to the one below.

Note: you must be logged into your DSBN account to access this form.

BDSS Form Link

2017-01-10

How to Save URLs in a Project Folder

This video will show you how to save URLs into your project folder. This is necessary when creating and submitting projects that use assets from the Internet.

Always give credit where it is due!

2017-01-092017-01-17

Tutorial: “Affinity Designer – For Beginners”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIAGgU0WarU

This is a great video for beginners to Affinity Designer as well as vector graphics in general. It provides an overview of starting Designer and walks you through an activity that teaches about:

creating drawings,
drawing rectangles,
layers (locking and positioning),
CMYK and HSL foreground and stroke colour selection,
manipulation of object nodes,
the use of the move tool,
the pen tool and the various pen tool modes,
how to zoom-to-fit,
the place image tool,
adding text,
use of Pixel Persona,
adding texture using a paint brush, and
saving and exporting the file.

Here’s the graphic created with this tutorial:

2017-01-092017-01-09

Photoshop Compositing Assignment

Use Photoshop to recreate any image from this Flickr account. Note: in most cases the owner of the account will have provided links to the resources she used.

Submit the following to the handin folder:

your final PSD file
a 1024 pixel jpg export of your file
a shortcut to your inspirational image
the assets you used in a folder named “assets”
shortcuts to all your assets

When handing in the PSD file, do NOT flatten or merge the layers.

2016-12-162017-01-10

Job Interview Questions Assignment – Google Docs

Linked below is a Job Interview assignment I use with my students in various classes. Other teachers are free to adapt or use it for their own classes.

The assignment is also available at my GitHub account here.

Source: Job Interview Questions Assignment – Google Docs

2016-12-122017-01-09

A Beautiful Visualization Of How Your DSLR Camera Really Works

Leave it to a graphic designer to clearly visualize the complicated inner-workings of your digital camera in a way that actually makes sense.

Source: A Beautiful Visualization Of How Your DSLR Camera Really Works | Co.Design | business + design

2016-12-122018-06-06

TGJ3M/4M ePortfolio Requirements

To my Communications Technology students, this is where you will find the outline of your ePortfolio requirements:

TGJ3M ePortfolio Requirements (2017-2018 link)
TGJ4M ePortfolio Requirements (2017-2018 link)

At the time of this writing the outline is not complete. I will be adding one or two items every few days, so as not to overwhelm you.

Organizational tip #1: Create your pages in a folder named “Incomplete”, then move them to the proper location once they are complete.

Organizational tip #2: Bookmark the requirements page so you can refer to it often and easily.

(Featured image courtesy of Karli B, a former student)

2016-12-122017-01-09

TEJ2O, TGJ2O, TGJ3M, TGJ4M Daybook: Update ePortfolio on New Google Sites

We used to use the old Google Sites for our ePortfolios, but, even with the current limitations, will now use the new Google Sites for our ePortfolios.

Each student shares their ePortfolio with me as an editor, so I can edit their site if necessary, or when the feature gets added, to add comments to their site.

For students that have taken classes with me before, they create a menu for each class with their assignments as sub-menus below them. For students in one of my classes only, their main menu is their list of assignments for that class.