Digital Media - Final Project ideas

Scholarships Competitions:

Dosomething.org  -- This site has lots of ideas you could create a project with and enter yourself to win a scholarship

Project Yellow Light  - Create a video to try to put a stop to distracted driving and enter to win a $5,000 scholarship.

Wearethefrontier.org   - Enter to win a GoPro Hero 4 Black camera!

Digital Media, Feb 22-26

Hashtag Project

Monday
Movie from story project

Tuesday
What is your favorite soda pop?
Coca-Cola Pay it Forward Scholarship 
Movie from story project

Digital Media, Feb 8-12

Monday
- Work day

Tuesday

• Become a PRO on Google Cardboard -- by the end of class you will need to be able to teach someone not in this class all about Google Cardboard. Your exit ticket from my class will be a sheet of paper answering:
1. What is Google Cardboard?
2. How does it work?
3. How can I use them?
4. What kinds of apps would you be interested in exploring?

Digital Media, Feb 1-5

Monday
Digital Footprint packet

Tuesday -Thursday

1. Finish Digital footprint packet. Post it on your blog and let me know you are ready for a grade. :)
2. Start on the Cyber Safety packet! 

Friday

• Finish all work from this class this week.
• Create a flip book (sheets on my desk) of an outdoor activity you can do in winter. Example - build a snowman.
• If you get done:
• code.org
• Khan Academy 
• NASA glogster challenge

3D printing files folder

Digital Media, Jan 4-8

Bell work:

Monday -
Tuesday - In many London Underground tube stations there are two up escalators but only one going down. Why?
Wednesday - A fire officer has 12 matchsticks lying in front of her. She removes just one of them. She now sees 9 in front of her. How is this possible ?
Thursday - What is your favorite book?
Friday -

Pictures folder

Monday:

• bell work
• Story Time: Skippy Jon Jones
• Take pictures from folder and insert them into a POWER POINT presentation

Tuesday:

• bell work
• Story Time: Skippy Jon Jones
• Project:
• Take pictures from folder and finish inserting them into a POWER POINT presentation
• Create a title
• Create a title slide
• Find music to play behind movie

Hashtag project

Digital Media, December 7-11

Monday
Share your flip book with 3 friends.

• Hashtag project
• Stop Motion discussion

Tuesday

Creative thinking puzzle.

• Stop motion discussion
• Group project planning - what will your topic be?

Wednesday

Creative thinking puzzle.

• Group project planning - what materials will you need?

Thursday - Friday

Movie Activity sheet

Digital Media, week 1

Monday:

• bell work - origami

Tuesday:

• bell work - origami
• What is stop motion?
• notes sheet

Wednesday:

• How has technology helped stop motion video progress?
• Origami teaching
• Flip Book creations!  (Watch the video below. Its fascinating. For real.)

Thursday:

• Finish flip book animation. Try to get something to move across the page. Keep adding detail. Wow me. :) 
• Presentation
• Note Sheet

Friday:

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Digital Media, week 11

This week's goals:

• character sketch and alibi final drafts
• title - final title due Wednesday
• interrogation scenes practiced
• marketing - movie flyer
• costume department - list of all materials needed 
• Where will we be filming?
• time line

Digital Media, Week 10

Monday
Snow Day

Tuesday
Students will be able to create a scene breakdown of their movie.

• Weekly Charge - week 9 group to work on announcements
• review what we have done so far in our preparation for our final project
• Scene breakdown for final project

Wednesday
Students will be able to create a scene breakdown of their movie.

• Let's talk: Creative thinking! Come up with a creative back story for this photo!

• Scene breakdown in small groups

Thursday
Students will be able to create a scene breakdown of their movie.

• Let's talk: Creative thinking! Come up with a creative back story for this photo!

• Character Sketches
• Mrs. Rose's example:
• Name: Barbie
• ditzy, talkative, like Starbucks, like pink, always wear pink dresses, blonde, 

Friday

Students will be able to create a scene breakdown of their movie.

• Let's talk: Creative thinking! Come up with a creative back story for this photo!
  
• What is our ending?
• Create character alibi

Digital Media, week 9

Monday
Students will be able to present their projects.

• Graphic design projects
• Top 10 DIY Music sites

Tuesday
Students will be able to 

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Wednesday
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Thursday
Students will be able to 

Friday
Students will be able to 

Digital Media, week 8

Students will be able to create engaging ads to market themselves and a new product. Students will be able to create a 30 second commercial marketing their new product.

Monday
Students will be able to define graphic design and become familiar in which careers use graphic design.
Marketing yourself

• Whether we know it or not, we are constantly marketing ourselves. Using only the pictures you collected on the assignment over break, how can  you market yourself? 
• Use canva.com
• NO LAYOUTS
• Post on your blog when you are done

Tuesday
Students will be able to reflect on images taken and decide how to market themselves in a positive light using those photos and graphic design tools.
Marketing yourself

• Whether we know it or not, we are constantly marketing ourselves. Using only the pictures you collected on the assignment over break, how can  you market yourself? 
• Use canva.com
• NO LAYOUTS
• Post on your blog when you are done

Wednesday
Students will design a unique product, and use graphic design tools to create a magazine ad for their product. 

Thursday
Students will plan a commercial for the unique product that he/she has created.

Free time? NEVER! :)
Fotoflexer.com
Code Academy
Code.org

Friday

Digital Media, week 7

Students will be able to use digital editing tools to create unique images. Students will be able to discuss the pros and cons of digital tools and non-digital tools when editing photos.

Monday -Wednesday
Pixlr photo editing

• Photo with background, two pictures cut out, and text
• When you are done, post it to your blog.
• Send the NON EDITED pictures to me (remember that you re-sized some of your pictures).
• Now, with scissors and glue, re-create your edited picture. Take a picture of this, and put it on your blog near the digitally edited picture. Discuss (in writing) which method you liked better, and the pros and cons OR similarities and differences of the two methods.
• Map of Cedar Springs. Take the pictures from your photo scavenger hunt, and "cut" them out. Place them on the map where the picture was taken. Post to your blog when done.
• Illustrate your creative group story. I suggest a Google Presentation so that you are all able to add to it. In the notes section, state who is responsible for this page. 

Digital Media, week 6

Break photo assignment

Monday

• Break photo assignment
• get all the photos you need for your story

Tuesday

• Break photo assignment
• get all the photos you need for your story

Wednesday

• Pixlr Editor on the Google Drive (extension)
• Choose a background, and using the lasso and re-sizing tool, add people to your background as well as text on your photo.

Thursday

• Share your Pixlr Edited pictures.
• Send Mrs. Rose your un-edited pictures.
• Cut and paste time!

Friday

Digital Media, week 4

Monday
1. Embedding videos onto our web pages
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Tuesday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Wednesday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. Code.org  OR Code Academy

Thursday

1. Photo scavenger document 
2. CODE (new activity - click on the document)

Digital Media, week 3

Monday 
How do I add closed captions to my video?

Tuesday
Videos

Wednesday
YouTube editor - transitions, text, etc.

Thursday
Photo Scavenger Hunt

Friday
* Videos!
* Scavenger Hunt group project

Weekly Charge, episode 8.1

Digital Media, week 1

Monday

• Contract building
• weekly announcements

Tuesday  - Snow Day!

Wednesday

• Intros?
• Specials?

Thursday

FILMING

Friday

• Put your videos together with YouTube editor
• How-To videos