MS 135
MS – Audacity project
Apr 5th
Fairy Tale Audio Recording
For this project, students will record themselves reading a fairy tale. Each section of the fairy tale will be recorded as a separate audio track. Appropriate sound effects will be inserted throughout the story. The final recording will be exported/mixed-down as an .mp3 file. Lastly, the files will be posted to each student’s blog.
Assemble in your Groups
I will assign you to groups of 2 to 3 people.
Pick a Fairy Tale (one that is 6 pages or less)
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/Collections/ClasFair.shtml
Storyboard your project
- Include who will be speaking during the various parts of the story (everyone’s voice will need to be included somewhere)
- Include where sound-effects will be used.
- Complete the story board in Microsoft Word.
Record your Project
MS 135 – Persuasive billboard evaluations
Mar 18th
Remainder
Use Tuxpaint to create a house. Post the house to your blogs.
MS – Persuasive billboard advertisement
Mar 7th
Scheduled for:
Monday, March 8th @ 11:35 – 12:25
and repeat this lesson for the other MS class on:
Tuesday, March 9th @ 11:15 – 12:00
Introduction
Students will use Paint.NET to create a persuasive advertisement for a billboard. Students will reference the following list and choose a persuasive technique(s) to use for their advertisements. The advertisement will be for a product or service that the student creates. Students may not use existing branded products. Students can search the internet and use images to modify and incorporate into their advertisements.
*Students are required to open this blog post on their computers to reference for this assignment.
Students will save this template
(right-click on the picture and choose “Save As”)
Example of finished product
Project Checklist
- Original product OR service
- Name of the product
- Slogan
- Use of at least 1 specific persuasive technique
- Supporting images/graphics
- Design principle questions to ask yourself:
- Are my graphics and text balanced?
- Do my colors work well with each other?
- Is there sufficient contrast (i.e. text is readable)
- Could someone quickly identify the product and purpose if they were driving by your billboard in a car?
MS 135 – Persuasive techniques
Feb 24th
Activity (use the whole class period)
Students will be creating a blog post to do this activity.
View the advertisements in Y:\MS (135)\_Resources\Advertisements. Decide which persuasive technique(s) are being employed in each advertisement.
Blog Post Details
- Title: Persuasive Techniques
- Contents:
- Name of the persuasive technique and how it’s being used
- Picture of the advertisement
- Category: Assignments
- Tags: any appropriate tags
Example
MS 135 – How media affects you
Feb 24th
Keyboarding (15 min)
- Students can type any of the activities in Mavis Beacon
How Media Affects You – Worksheet
- This worksheet is found in the student folders in the “01 Media Literacy” folder.
- For question #2, students should type a paragraph using at least 5 sentences.
- Remind the students to save their files.
Extra Time
- Students can create a picture using any of the graphics programs (Tuxpaint, Inkscape, Paint.NET) and post it to their blogs.
MS 135 – Media literacy continued
Feb 23rd
Agenda
- Mavis Beacon -> Custom Lesson -> Media Literacy (15 min)
- Create a blog post (details below)
Activity Details
Summary
Students will take a screenshot of their graphs that were created in Microsoft Excel. The screenshot will then be posted to their blogs.
Blog Post
Title: My Media Consumption
Content:
- Insert the screenshot of the graph you created in Excel.
- Answer the questions:
- After creating the graph of your media consumption, is there anything you would like to change regarding the types of media & time you spend using them?
- Do you feel that your current media usage is healthy or unhealthy? Why?
Category: Assignments
Tags: Whatever you choose to be appropriate.
Example
MS 135 – Media literacy
Feb 22nd
Keyboarding
Media literacy custom lesson
Discussion
What is media literacy?
Assignment
How much media do you consume?
MS 135 – Green screen blog post
Feb 18th
Overview
Students will create a blog post and insert the picture that they created in Paint.NET.
Discussion
- When is it ok to manipulate images?
- How do advertising companies manipulate images & why?
Lesson
Preparing images for the web.
Assignment – Step by Step
- Open your “photoshopped” image in Paint.NET.
- File -> Save As ***change the file type to .jpg***
- Create a blog post.
- Title: Photoshopped green screen picture
- Content:
- Insert the “.jpg” image.
- Answer the following questions in PARAGRAPH FORM:
- What does it mean to “photoshop” an image.
- How did you “photoshop” your image?
- Why do advertising companies “photoshop” their images?
- Category: Assignments
- Tags: whatever you choose.
- Publish!