Year+12+computing+classes

Year 12's:
Monday 2 August: Here is an outline of what I am expecting you to hand in on Friday 6th August. 1st July: Here is a spreadsheet that you can use for your action plan for your US25656 Website assessment. You need to modify it based on your assessment. If you have any questions, please email me. 

31st May: We are onto a new topic now. Web design. Do now : This is up at the Teacher console and your reliever will hand it out for you. Just in case there are not enough copies, here it is in electronic format. It will be easier to do on paper. 

 Then you are to go into w drive, and navigate to the two folders (bart and homer) that are found in **W:\Computing\good bad webdesign** You will be given a worksheet (good and Bad webdesign features) that you are to use to trawl through both these website and critique them. Always start with the index page which is the technical name for the home page. After that is completed, there is a **What am I worksheet** up the front with the Teacher that you need to complete. Save all your work and glue into your visual diary.

Last thing: you need to do a research on the top 10 principles of good website design. You can use the internet to do this and put your findings into Powerpoint. 24th May Your assessment for the fridge magnet is due this Friday. Make the most of your time in class and use the Photoshop here. All your writing and sketching should have been done by now. If you have any worries, please see me.

For those of you that have finished, you can go on and have a look at learning HTML programming using notepad ++. Be sure to save your files with the extension .htm and you should be able to see them in your browser. If you are having any problems, ask in class. There is a good tutorial that you can use here: html tutorial

28th April/3rd May
I am away till Tuesday. You have all be given your assessment and most of you will have heard Colleen Brown by now. Here are the theory notes for questions 8 and 9 on the assessment. Read these notes and answer the questions on the assessment. 

For the next two lessons, I suggest you work on qn 8 and 9 of the assessment and then start thinking about what you might want to do on your design. You need to have 3 sketches to choose from. You will have to think about what information you are puttin gon the magnet. I suggest that you create a little survey questionnaire that you take home and interview a couple of members in your household about what information they need for their community. You can 'mock' up the phone numbers for now in your design phase and then ensure when you go to create it in Photoshop that we've got the correct numbers. What colours are you going to use? What logos? Remember, Randwick Park doestn' have a logo so that you can design a special one for them as part of this magnet.

You can design on your assessment (in the blank pages) or you may design on your vis diary and we will copy the pages and attach to your assessment.

I will be in touch with you through this wikispace and will answer any email questions. e.douglas@alfristoncollege.school.nz <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mrs D <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">_

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Welcome back to term 2. It will be a really busy term (again). Plans this term:
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here are theory notes about advantanges and disadvantages of using a computer for design. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do Now: 23 april <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">review of photoshop - game [|www.quia.com/hm/649374.html]
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Photoshop: We are going to be doing a community logo project with Manukau city council and the goal will be to make a fridge magnet for Randwick Park community advertising key information that residents would/should know or have easy reference to. i.e. police ph, dr ph num, etc. In week 2 we will be having Mrs Colleen Brown, a Councillor, to come and talk to the class and outline the project. It will be a competition and there will be credits associated with it. 3 level 2 credits. More about this to follow. We will be finished with this by the end of week 5.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">HTML: Weeks 6-11 we will be working on HTML programming and learning CSS and notepad++. This will carry over to the next term.

Theory notes for designing a logo:

You will need to put your questions out on your wikispace page by the weekend. Get to the site, sign in, Go to YR12 student pages, find your page, and click on it. Select the edit button. You can put in your questions there and save it.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Do Now: 19th and 20th April 2010:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">A review of photoshop - battleship game [|www.quia.com/ba/395348.html]
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Update your wikipage You can click on your particular link to find your own page. Look at the sample student page. I have 3 Year 12 classes so you need to look for the one that you are timetabled for.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Your individual pages will be (hopefully) set up. First check out what I want you to do by looking at the __sample student__ page. You need to be signed in to access the wiki. Most of you should have done this by now. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I want to see that each one of you have made an entry on your individual page by the **2nd class of term 2**. So that will be either the __21st, 22nd, or 23rd of April__ (depending on when you have 12DTC). If any of you are 'stuck' then you can contact me (e.douglas@alfristoncomputing.school.nz) or see me during class. Also, remember C3B4ME ...

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mrs D