Welcome 2022 Technology Students

   

Projects for 2022 Fall Semester

Typing Club

Google Slides "All About Me"

Code Academy

Scratch Animation

GOOGLE SLIDES PRESENTATION PROJECT - "All About Me"

ALL ABOUT ME

You will create a slideshow presentation about yourself using GOOGLE SLIDES.

Your slideshow will consist of 7 or more individual slides that relate to

important parts of your life. Each slide represents a different category

such as “things you are good at."

You will present your slideshow to the class at the end of
the project for a final grade.

Upload your slide show to Canvas.

Due Date: February 14 2023

EXAMPLE SLIDE SHOW

Grade:

- You should have 7 completed slides that contain a sentence or a brief paragraph of text for each slide.

- The content should be interesting and engage the audience. Make this fun!

- Your slides should use different backgrounds, text color and fonts but make sure the text is easy to read.

- Add picture(s) related to the slide topic on every slide.

- Use slide transitions.

Optional: custom animations and sound(s). This can be tricky so I will leave it up to you.

Your grade will be based upon completing the assignment along

with giving a presentation to the class.

SLIDE CONTENT TOPICS**

-Slide #01 – Introduction (family, name origin, places you have lived or where you were born)
Add at least one picture of yourself to this slide.

-Slide #02 –#05 - Choose among these topics for slides 2-5:

Baby stuff (memorable moment when you were a baby…first words, walking)

Elementary School (memorable teacher, class, or funny moment)

Pets (pet tricks, how you got your pet)

Team or Individual Sports (favorite sport or team you watch, do you play on a team)

Things You Do Well (we all do something well!)

Special Interests (music, skateboarding, after school activities)

Hobbies or Collections (coins, stamps, rocks)

Traveling or Vacations

Friends (what do you enjoy doing together)

Awards or Special Recognitions

Slide #06 – Your Future (career, college, goals, etc)

Slide #07 - something about you not many people know, or something silly, something random, or anything at all.

**topics or content for this project are flexible...please let me know if you have any alternate ideas you would like to do

Grade

You should have 7 completed slides that contain a brief paragraph of text for each slide (yes you can have more than 7). The content should be interesting and engage the audience.  Make this fun! 
Your slides should use different backgrounds, text color and fonts, art, picture(s) related to the slide topic, different slide transitions with sound, and different custom animations with sound(s). 
Your grade will be based upon completing the assignment along with giving a presentation to the class. See the back of this page for grade standards and keeping track of your progress.

**topics or content for this project are flexible…please let me know if you have any alternate ideas you would like to do

Typing Club

 Your goal is 80% accuracy and 30wpm

I will check your progress online.

You will need to join our class first.

1. Go to:  https://west-sylvan2.typingclub.com/ (Links to an external site.)
2. Click "Enter a Class Code"

Use Class Code  C8D5CDN

3. I created an account using your first and last name, and your first name as your username.

 One you have joined the class, you can simply login using your first name.

4. There is no password, so leave that blank.  You can change your password later.

5. Complete by March 2nd:  6th Grade Typing: 

   HOME ROW, TOP ROW, BOTTOM ROW, ENTER & TAB, REVIEW ALL KEYS 

 Your goal is 30 words per minute with 80% accuracy.

The rest of the lessons will need to be completed by April 6th

I will see your progress on the typingclub website, so there is nothing to turn in.

Login information:

Code Academy Project

To Join:

1.) Go to https://studio.code.org/sections/TKXQXG

or to

https://studio.code.org/join 

and type in your 6-letter section code: TKXQXG

 

2.) Choose your name: ____________ (it'll be your first name)

3.) Choose your secret picture:
NOTE: It will be a different picture for each student - ask Mr. Gilley

4.) Click the sign in button.

Complete 28 Lessons. Each lesson has 6-15 levels.

Use your PPS email address

Note: click "sign in with your PPS Google account."

Scratch Animation!

 

NAME_____________________________ PERIOD ______

  SCRATCH ANIMATION

Scratch Animation!

 GETTING STARTED: CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT

Click this link and join our class.  WRITE DOWN YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD.

http://scratch.mit.edu/signup/fy6dy6w34

After you have signed up, you can just go to

SCRATCH.MIT.EDU

and login with your username and password

THE PROJECT

STEP TWO - TUTORIALS:

• Click “Create”

• Click “Tutorials”  

• Complete the first 10 tutorials. THIS IS WORTH 20 POINTS.  

• Yes, this will take you a couple of days to complete, but by the time you

• are done you should have the skills you need to create your own video game.

STEP THREE.  OPEN THIS TURN-IN DOCUMENT.  MAKE A COPY INTO YOUR DRIVE AND FILL IT OUT WITH YOUR NAME.

Share the results of your tutorial “Pong” and “Make it Fly” to Mr. Gilley

by: 

1. Click the orange SHARE button

2. click the blue COPY LINK BUTTON and pasting the links to your finished tutorials in the turn in document.

STEP FOUR: Create a simple snake game.

Follow this tutorial to  create your

sNaKeGaMeIF you can't open the video link, go to Coding with Chris' youtube channel.

Here's an example game made by Mr. Gilley

It’s ok if it has some bugs, glitches or doesn’t behave perfectly.  Just make sure you

have this criteria below:

Grading Criteria

TASK	POINTS
-Complete all tutorials and submit links to your PONG and MAKE IT FLY tutorials	25
-Customize your snake (put some original art on the face or body)	20
-Add a customized background	20
-Record a voice over	15
-Add two or more sound effects	10
-Add music	10

 

 Copy the LINK to your game, paste it into your turn-in document, and upload it to Canvas

Lastly, SHARE your game by clicking that orange Share button, and

let Mr. Gilley know your game is complete.

ADVANCED SCRATCH

Create your own ORIGINAL video game.  

Use the skills you learned in the previous assignments to design and make your own video game.

Here are the grading criteria:

1. Your game must begin with a screen of instructions after clicking the green flag, free of typos, spelling and grammatical errors. 

The player should be able to sit down and play your game without any verbal instructions from you, the game-designer.

2.  Have some type of point-scoring system. Or, if not points, then have some kind of alternative like a limited number of lives, or chances

to succeed, etc.

3. Have at least two distinct levels.  The backdrops, sprites, and challenges must change for each level.

4.  An ultimate goal or end screen once the player has succeeded.  DO NOT have an end-goal of simply trying to achieve the highest score.  Instead, have a concrete

goal such as; beat the Boss-Monster, beat the timer, score over a certain amount of points,

make it through a certain number of levels (3 or more), etc. 

5. An ultimate end screen once the player has failed.

   6. Audio:  Include Sound effects, original voice

recording(s), and music.

7. The game must be your own original work. 

To earn an “A” - do all of the above and create your own sprites

To earn a “B” - meet at least 6 of the 7 criteria above and create your own sprites (or import a

jpg and edit it to make it your own), or meet all 7 criteria but don’t create your own sprites.

PROJECT 8 GENRE-SWITCH

Genre Shifting Movie Trailer

Download and edit a trailer for a popular movie, and change the genre to something opposite.

Use headphones if possible and watch these examples:

Example 1: Change "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" from a family film to a horror movie,

Example 2: Change "Mary Poppins" into a suspense thriller.

Example 3: Change "Elf" into a suspense thriller.


Criteria: 

-You CANNOT use an animated film.

-This project requires substantial editing - in other words, you can't just take a complete trailer, change the music and say it's done. It must look, sound and feel like a change of genre. -

-Requires at least 2 voice overs, titles, and new music and sound effects.

-over one minute long, less than 2 minutes long.

Download sound effects and music from Youtube

Here is how to download any sound effect or music clip from youtube to your computer, then upload to your google drive.

 

 

MUSIC VIDEO

 Music Video:

Choose a song, download it and import it to iMovie.

Next download at least 3 different source videos to use in your edits. These source videos can be anything - other music videos, movies, TV clips, youtubers, gameplay footage, etc., but do NOT use the original music video that was made for that particular song. 

Now cut up pieces of those videos to create your own music video. 

1. Criteria: 

• Time every shot and cut it to the rhythm and beat of the music.

• At least 30 cuts!  That sounds like a lot, but it’s necessary.

• 2 voice over recordings 

• 1 new music track (or more)

• at least 6 new sound effects.

• Three or more titles 

• Make it longer than one minute.

It must look, sound and feel like a different video. 

News Broadcast

 

Newsy Time

Produce a two minute news broadcast.  

This will require groups of 6 people.

1. Start off with a five-second long title sequence like this:

Modern Breaking News Intro

2. Next, introduce your two anchors.  Add titles with each anchor’s name over their image. 

3. Add theme music over both of these parts - the title sequence and the introduction of your anchors.

4. RESEARCH PORTION - the News Segment: inform the audience about A REAL, TRUE NEWS TOPIC with at least a 30 second segment.  You decide what the topics are - use your imagination, just keep it appropriate for school and FACTUAL.  

5. Answer the the questions WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN and HOW

6. Download at least one clip from youtube and use that during your news segment.

7. Weather Update segment.  Spend about 15-30 seconds giving us the REAL weather.

8. Other segments of some other content so everyone in your group gets on camera, such as entertainment, sports, interviews, etc.

9. Close the broadcast with a catchy sign-off line.  

GRADING CRITERIA

1. Length - 2 minutes long

2. Titles: you should always include your characters’ names when they first appear, and any other people that appear in the video.  Also label the most important points or facts in your narration.

3. Music track for the intro and outro.  More music is optional.

4. Flashy title sequence.

5. Always use black slugs.

Groups

PERIOD 5

CAMERA 4 - Harlan, Miles, Walter, Alex, Siddharth

CAMERA 5 - Marshawn, Brandon, Sam, Caleb, Hikkari, Micah

CAMERA 6 - Kate, Kiera, Dahlia, Theo, Ryan, Celine

CAMERA 7 - Ana Lu, JC, Bailey, Stella, Knight