Tech skill area: Deeper exploration of tech tools and skills

For advanced students who are finished with work early, I am offering an opportunity to specialize in an area of tech skill that you are interested in.

Choose from one of the challenges below. Set your own learning goals. Work through then set more goals or move to a different area of interest.

This work is in addition to classwork. IT is meant to be fun not drudgery or a punishmnet for being smart. When you are done wiht classswork, flip over to your special challenge project. When you are complete with a goal, have me check it off. As you find tutorials that are good for different tools, share them with me and I'll add them to this page.

Have fun and learn a lot! Saylor

Challenge Areas:

3D modeling

Google sketchup - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder. This is an application you can download free from the Internet to use at home. Take the tutorials under the help menu. Create towns, homes, space stations, interior room designs, parks, skateboard parks... Take a screen shot of your creation and share it on your Google web site portfolio.

 

Animation

Kerpoof - animations http://kerpoof.com

Doink  Animation http://www.doink.com/

 

Audio editing

Garageband  This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder. Take tutorials if you need to. Work to create your own musical creations. Experiment with uploading songs from your ipod or itunes to alter. Save your songs to your Itunes, drag the to your desktop then attach them to your Google web site portfolio.

Audacity - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

Tone matrix  http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix

Voice Candy, This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folderPlay with audio filters using import recordings into Garage band and build a radio play.

 

Geospatial

Google Earth - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder. This is an application you can download free from the Internet to use at home. You can create paths or tours of your dream travel locations, take a virtual trip around the world placing pins at places you would like to visit. You can also visit the moon, sea or Mars. Take some screen shots and place them on your Google web site portfolio.

 

Image Editing

Art Text  This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

Aviary - Online image editing

Photo Studio - Image editing - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

 

Mindmapping

Personal Brain - Build a mind map using  This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

 

Multimedia

Comic Life Comic book creation using This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder  to a higher level, use filters, extras

Glogster posters (perhaps for another class)

Animoto presentation

 

Programming

Code Academy - http://www.codecademy.com learn to code the easy way, earn points from lessons. Cool site, you can earn big money knowing how to code websites!

Power game factory This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder.  Create a multi-level shooter game. Use all of the options for different weapons, enemies, extra lives or hit points, design your own background terrain and mask it to make the game interesting. Use the hot spots to transport players to different levels or locations. Have a peer play your game when you are done. Take some screen shots and place them on your Google web site portfolio.

Scratch from MIT - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folderLearn programming using

Power game factoryThis application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder.  Create a multi-level shooter game. Use all of the options for different weapons, enemies, extra lives or hit points, design your own background terrain and mask it to make the game interesting. Use the hot spots to transport players to different levels or locations. Have a peer play your game when you are done. Take some screen shots and place them on your Google web site portfolio.

 

Script writing

Celtix - Write a movie, play or radio script. This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

 

Video

iMovie - Movie editing using - This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

Noodle Flix Make a movie using   This application is on your Hard drive in the Application folder

 

Web site creation

Wordpress.com

 

Misc

Science Fair graphics and lettering

iPad app exploration and reviews for school uses

 

 

 

 


Objectives
(Know)

• Students will:
_Set a learning goal around the challenge they choose

–Work on their goal when they finish class work ahead of time

_set doc app shortcuts

–logout of the user

• Have a fellow student check your work

•Have doc and desktop checked


Project Examples

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Glossary

desktop - The part of the finder that gives you the visual of files, applications, folders and image.

doc - the area on a Mac where shortcut images to many applications you may use sit.

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