-Publications 2-3

Assignments

February - June 2010

Also remember you are working on the Current Edition of the Newspaper. Be sure to sign up for responsibilities. Keep in mind, that in order to receive credit for the club, you must put in time afterschool and/or during your free blocks.

Check out some winning newspapers both in print and online at: http://www.studentpress.org/nspa/contests.html#opm

An informative research site:

CQ Researcher

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher is a reliable source for information on controversial issues in the news. Each week it focuses on a single issue and provides an overview of the situation, a timeline, a history of the problem, current news and the outlook for the future. Perhaps the most helpful section is "pro/con" which gives essays on the topic by experts on each side of the debate. Recent topics include "Factory Farms," "The New Environmentalism," and "Privacy in Peril," "Climate Change." Upcoming reports will focus on "Rethinking Foreign Policy" and "Treating Addiction." Check it out!

Agent of Change

Please click on the following link to read the article about the recipients who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year:

Article 1 to Read

Article 2 to Read

Directions: Create a two page newspaper with the following criteria:

Both pages must include:

Paragraph styles that you create (headline, newspaper text, photo by, caption, etc.)
The use of a drop cap
A library that contains all the graphics you use

Page 1

Design your own flag
Include a box to list this year's winners
Choose one winner to do an in-depth story on

Page 2

Design your own masthead
If you were to choose a deserving individual for the Medal of Freedom honor, who would you choose? Write a feature story on the individual.
Include graphics (don't forget to use Photoshop)
Use the whole page for your design!

Diversity Assignment

Diversity Project

InDesign-You will create a one page visual portraying the meaning to you of one of the following diversity quotes:

"Diversity makes for a rich tapestry. All the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color"
~Maya Angelou

"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by its own greatest strength--its diversity."
Melissa Etheridge

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
~Jimmy Carter

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.”
~Margaret Mead

I need to be able to know why and who it is from your visual. (Note: You are to use Adobe PhotoShop to work on graphics that you will include in your InDesign page.)

2-In word, write a five paragraph essay the meaning of the quote and how it deals with diversity in the US or the world today

PhotoShop Actions

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

What is an action?

Why are actions used?

How do you create an action?

Where can one find actions?

How do you load an action?

Students will create a short action to change the size of a picture and add a border

Students will choose 15 actions to use and work with from a selection of Photoshop default actions and more than 25 downloaded actions from various sites.

10 Actions must be from the actions provided to them from the downloaded actions folder.

5 Actions should be the ones included with Adobe Photoshop

Students will create a multi- page layout displaying their actions used.

15 different actions used—name of action, original picture, picture with action used, brief explanation of what each action does.

Remember to export your finished InDesign Project

Movie Poster

Students are to create a
movie poster. Students are to use
Photoshop to prepare pictures and
create backgrounds.
Students are to use layers in Adobe InDesign
to complete their posters.

Files should be exported as pdf files for review.

Check out some movie posters with a PhotoShop theme at:

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/contests/contest-5-finalists.htm

Adobe Professional Curriculum

You are to complete the lessons following the link below. Files for the lessons
are located in the Publications folder called Adobe Professions Lesson files.

http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/
acrobat/pdfs/acr8_curriculum_guide.pdf

Teacher instructed lesson on creating forms and analyzing
can be found at the following link:

Adobe Professional

Newspaper Assignment

Please click on the following link to read the article about the recipients who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year:

Article 1 to Read

Article 2 to Read

Directions: Create a two page newspaper with the following criteria:

Both pages must include:

Paragraph styles that you create (headline, newspaper text, photo by, caption, etc.)
The use of a drop cap
A library that contains all the graphics you use

Page 1

Design your own flag
Include a box to list this year's winners
Choose one winner to do an in-depth story on

Page 2

Design your own masthead
If you were to choose a deserving individual for the Medal of Freedom honor, who would you choose? Write a feature story on the individual.
Include graphics (don't forget to use Photoshop)
Use the whole page for your design!

Useful graphic web sites

http://bop.nppa.org/2007/

http://www.picfindr.com/

As a quote from their website: "PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially."

http://www.in-visions.net/graphic_links2.htm

Check out the following high school newspapers:

http://www.nantucket.k12.ma.us/~veritas/index.html

High School Newspapers in the United States

View the front pages of almost 300 newspapers from all over the world at: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/default.asp?page=1

Note: You can also view the pages by page list by clicking on the page list tab at the top.

Flash Version at: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Also visit the cyber museum by going to: http://www.newseum.org/cybernewseum/index.htm

Assignment

Redesign Project--250 Points

You may work with a partner (up to 3 of you in a group) for this assignment.

Click on this link for the instructions for your Redesign Project!

Redesign of the Sports Pages

Design of the Class News, etc.

Redesign of the New Teachers

Also remember you are working on the March Edition of the Newspaper. Be sure to sign up for responsibilities. Keep in mind, that in order to receive credit for the club, you must put in time afterschool and/or during your free blocks.

Publications 2 – Assignments

1. Sign-up for story editor – Q

a. (Follow News Group Prep. Form)

2. Sign-up for page editor – K

a. (Get a copy of Page Layout Check Off Sheet)

3. Create due dates for:

a. All articles – story editors – Q

b. Completion of pages

c. Editing of pages

d. Distribution

4. Set-up dummies of the October/November Edition for both rooms 404 and 412.– Q

5. Setup of blank pages in the October/November folder on the M drive.

6. Redesign projects:

Redesign Projects--250 Points

Redesign of the News Shorts

Design of the Class News, etc.

Redesign of the Spotlight On

7. Create standing heads—Publications II in charge

Publications I sign up

8. Newspaper Logs – One per week

Check for additional assignments at:

http://www.in-visions.net/publications_2.htm

http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/projects/default.htm