1st & 3rd nine weeks
-Directions for saving digital project work-
Read the following directions and complete the project activities:
Save your work to your Portfo_ folder that you created on your computer station desktop account. You may also save jpegs back to your memory stick when necessary in order to view your photos on the T.V. for your classmates to observe.
Create a folder on your desktop computer account with your last name_ Portfolio. Example: Mr. Noblet's folder would be.......... Noblet_Portfo
Save all of your assignments and project work to your Portfo_ account so I can grade your "digital projects". It is also recommended to save your assignments and project work in the Portfo_ to your file server account on the Bath LAN for "backup".
Eventually you will ave this web link assignment "Photo Project Requirements to the "Intro folder" in your Portfo_ on your desktop......Assignment Instructions.
Students can also learn how to use FTP for transferring digital information from your home computer and Bath School account.
Floppy disks and Zip disks are available if needed for specific activities. A floppy disk is only 1.44 MB, while your zip disk is 100 MB or 250 MB.
Learn to use Mac and PC programs and format. The T.E. Department has iMacs and PC computers.
Mr. Noblet's school email address: noblete@bath.noacsc.org
The T.E. Home Page
http://www.noacsc.org/allen/ba/hs/noblet/teindex.htm
Navigate the T.E.- BHS web site:
Mr. Noblet created and designed this web site for student classroom use in the Technology Education Department.
Bookmark this site at home and on the computers we use at school. Be consistent by naming the bookmark: T.E.- BHS
These assignments can be done as "distributive learning"...... on any computer:
Technology students will use the T.E. Classroom computers and the T.E. Lab computers at the High School. Budget your time wisely for these desktop digital assignments.
Computers can be used at home or any place wired to the Internet for photo assignments.
-Assignment Instructions-
We will use links from the T.E.- BHS web site. Be sure to name each assignment properly with the appropriate jpg, gif, tif, ppt, doc, bmp or other "document extension" language on the PC, iMac, eMac.
Examples of naming an attachment on the iMac: (animaton.gif) - animation gif (landscpe.jpg) - landscape jpeg - (landscpc.ppt) - landscape critique in Power Point - (intro.doc) - word document in AppleWorks or Microsoft / (8.3)
When you save and or rename a jpeg or a gif or other document attachments, use lower case with 8 characters or less. The extension will be the dot 3 (8.3)
I will explain and demonstrate these activities in further detail in class.
Assignments:
Intro.- Copy this "Photography Project Requirements" and save it to your Desktop Portfo account....here's how to do it. Navigate to the Photo Links page from the T.E. HomePage. Open the "1st/3rd 9wks. Project Requirements" link which is located under the "Photography Girl".
In order to save this document to your portfolio folder on your desktop use the following method:
Select all - copy - paste this Intro assignment into a word document (Microsoft Word or AppleWorks).
Make sure you save the "Photography Project Requirements" into the Intro Folder which is located inside the 1st/3rd 9 wks folder.
Print a hard copy of the "Photo Project Requirements" assignment if you ever lose the original hardcopy / handout.
Remember to navigate to your Portfo_ which is located on your Desktop account when saving documents.
1. Navigate to the "Photo Links" page from the T.E. Home Page, then to the Landscape Photographer's link and find 6 landscape scenes to save as a jpeg from the 1st professional landscape photographer listed "Bob Atkins". Please choose landscapes and not wildlife photos. In order to save the photo selected save as or download image to disk or drag photo to your zip disk and eventually to the file server for back up copy. [landscpe.jpg]
Name the photo as an example [sunset.jpg] / remember (8.3) with the iMac. Just rename the Photo jpeg on the PC computer with no more than 8 letters....lower case.
The iMac requires that you write 8.3 format - the PC only the 8 characters or less.
2. Go to the "Wildcat Mascot" link on the T.E. Home Page to see the Bobcat photo. At the bottom of the "Wildcat Mascot" page click on the "Wildlife Photographer's" link. Select wildlife photographs that would make good "mascot pictures" for high schools, like the Bobcat photo for our Bath Wildcat mascot. Save 6 wildlife photos to folder #2.
3. Go to the "Fun Stuff" page from the T.E. Home Page and find a graphic (clip art) and an animation. Use the "Animation- Clip Art" link or use the "Google" search engine and type in "free graphics and animations".
Description- a Graphic (clip art) is: cartoon like / a drawing / a chart / a model / a diagram / B&W or with 256 colors or less and identified as a (gif)
Description- an Animation is also identified as a (gif) and is "cartoon like" that is animated (in motion).
Save "5 clip art" graphics and "5 animations" in folder #3.
4. Scan a color graphic design. After completing the tiff and saving it to your zip; then convert it into a jpg or a gif. Save the .jpg / gif version to your account in folder #4 with the original tiff scan. If the scan is a photo save it as a jpeg (.jpg). If the scan is 256 colors or less save it as a gif (.gif) There should be two documents in this folder (scan.tif - scan.jpg or scan.gif)
5. Navigate to the "Problem Solving Model" from the T.E. Home Page. Put the cursor on the diagram and right click-PC or click and hold-iMac then save as or drag to disk (zip disk and file server). The Problem Solving Model will be in your #5 folder [psmodel.gif]. Print a hard copy of the psmodel for the instructor. Note: select just the problem solving model diagram on the PC for printing....do not select the entire page. Go to File in the menu....print selection radio button...then print.
6. Navigate to the "How to Study" page from the T.E. Home Page. Then select and copy the "How to study" text (do not select the page frame or border) and paste it into a Microsoft Office or AppleWorks as a word document. Save the copied document as hotostdy.doc on the iMac and howtostdy on the PC. Print a hard copy of "How to Study".
7. Digital Camera Activity- You will be taking digital pictures with the digital camera. Create a DigCam folder then create two folders inside the DigCam folder called "Original" and "Enhanced". Inside the "Original" folder create #1 disk, #2 disk etc. Drag your digital pictures from your Digital Camera floppy disk, memory stick, or memory card into these folders as you fill the disks taking pictures. You can create subfolders in your "Enhanced" folder such as: Portrait, Landscape, Action, Panning, Macro, Silhouette, Photo Copy etc.
You are required to photograph portrait photos, out of doors shots, silhouettes, action shots, action blur shots, environmental flash, in the studio portraits and compositions and macro-closeup photo shots (a special setting on the digital camera). Use the program menus such as cropping, color correction, contrast, brightnes and filters to enhance the photos.
Enhance the digital photos on the computer using PhotoShop Elements. After you have enhanced your photos from the original digital camera folder save as to the enhanced folder. The enhanced folder will be considered #7 assignment.
Use the enhanced the photo jpegs to create a multimedia presentation by inserting these photos into Microsoft Office-PowerPoint or AppleWorks slide show. Insert a photo per slide then give a brief description of your photograph being sure to state significant information and any other creative thoughts you may want to express. Identify the PowerPoint or slide show as digcam.ppt on the Mac and digcam on the PC.
[12 slides-C;16 slides-B; 20 slides-A]
8. Landscape Photographers Critique
Create another folder within your Photo Digital Portfolio Folder and label it #8 Landscape Photographers Critique. Navigate to the T.E. Home page then to Photo Links then to Landscape Photographers. Surf the different links in reference to Landscape Photographers and choose photos to save as jpegs to your file server (don't save on the C Drive-My Documents). Save by a right click then save as or save to disk or drag to disk. Makd sure you are saving to your zip or navigate to your account.
"Choose only one or two photos per photographer".
After you have saved the photo jpegs create a multimedia presentation by inserting these photos into Microsoft Office-PowerPoint or AppleWorks slide show. Insert a photo per slide then describe using the following criteria:
Why you like the photo?
Why you selected this photo?
What caught your eye?
What intrigues or fascinates you about the photo?
Why you appreciate the photographer's: interpretation, enhancing abilities, creative talents and camera manipulation to produce a new vision?
Also critic the composition by a list of guidelines that apply to the photo. Use your reference list:
Photo Tips handout
When you look through the viewfinder ask yourself the following questions handout.
The Six Guidelines from the Video "Guidelines for Good Composition".
Check the reference guides at the bottom of the "Photo Links" page from the T.E. Homepage.
Check the critique template on the "Photo Quest" link from the T.E. web site.
After creating the Multimedia Presentation save this document in your portfolio under #8 Folder Landscape Photographers Critique. Identify the PowerPoint or slide show as landscp.ppt on the Mac and landscp on the PC.
The Multimedia Presentation document and the Photo jpegs from the landscape photographers should all be saved in folder #8 Landscape Photographers Critique in your Portfolio folder [last name_Portfolio].
[12 slides-C;16 slides-B; 20 slides-A]
Remember to:
Create a [Last name_ Portfolio Folder] on your Desktop Account to save the above assignments, also save each of these assignments to your account on the BHS/LAN file server as a back up copy. Learn how to send and receive digital project activities from your home computer by using FTP. Learn how to drag documents to the shared folder....T.E./BHS.
Future digital projects can also be saved to a zip disk when necessary. You will also burn a CD of your completed Portfolio.
I will demonstrate an example of each multi-sensory project assignment.
Remember that these projects are considered part of your homework along with your workbook and preparing for tests. Also, learn to budget your time with the desktop assignments. You can sign out of study hall to work on these projects in the T.E. Department. You can work before or after school if my schedule permits.
Make your projects a rich hands-on laboratory experience.
Due at the end of the 1st/3rd grading period .... good luck!
Final Photography Evaluation for 1st/3rd 9wks.
Evaluation for each Photography requirement category:
Workbook- 20%
Projects-40%
Tests- 40%
Total = 100%