Grade 8 Computer

Eighth graders are making their own websites, using http://students.weebly.com./


Grading criteria will include:

* Effort
* Number of Pages- a minimum of 3 pages required
* Design
* Videos- optional
* Must have pictures with captions (collages do not need individual captions, but should have one for the collage)
* Must include text- paragraphs

Sites must be finished by May 4th and will be peer reviewed on Wed May 9th.

Just before break 8th graders finished creating audio trailers to go with the movie posters made earlier in the term.

Deadlines to be aware of:

First draft of InDesign page Due Feb 10

Final copy- InDesign page Due Feb 17

Audio trailer Due March 2

Everglades Field Guide Rubric 2012

The time between now and March break will be used to make an audio trailer for your Photoshop movie project, to learn the basics of InDesign, and to make a page for the everglades book.

Deadlines to be aware of:

First draft of InDesign page Due Feb 10

Audio trailer Due March 2

Audio Trailer

Create a 30 second “commercial” for your movie. This will be recorded on Voice Thread to accompany your movie poster. Minimum time is 30 seconds…maximum is 60 seconds.

• Write your script to advertise your movie
• Have your script approved
• Choose or create appropriate background music/sound effects**
• Record and edit using Audacity or try using Aviary( it’s part of your Google Apps- under more)
• Save as mp3
• Upload your audio to Voice Thread
• If you have used CC licensed material you must turn in a citation document
• Email me your mp3 file- please be sure it is named- your name

**All Audio used must be either your original audio production or a CC licensed audio track. You may NOT use copyrighted music. If you use CC licensed music you must cite the track(s) and turn in a citation document.

This may help you find CC licensed music:

Try this link to cc licensed music sources:

The Everglades project research is science homework.  It is due December 9th.  Please check the document below for complete requirements and links that may be helpful.

 
The Everglades Project 2012

Eighth graders are finishing up the basics of Photoshop and will begin to work on their project, a movie poster. The first drafts of these will be due no later than December 9th, with the final draft a week later- December 16th. It is important to read through the rubric below to understand all of the requirements. All completed work, both the draft and the final poster must be saved into your individual folder on the server. Any files not found there on the due date will not be graded (will receive a failing grade)
Grade 8 -Photoshop Rubric 2011

Eighth graders are finishing up their work on their summer reading projects. Students were asked to choose a book they had read this summer, and working with a partner create a series of 60 second recap videos of the book, using the examples on the website. All groups chose to do recaps of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl. The basic requirements included an overview, characters, themes and an analysis of the literary devices used, although other categories could also be included.

Recap scripts were written and students used a green screen to record their recaps. It was very difficult for most to produce a video of exactly 60 seconds. Editing was done with Corel VideostudioProx4.
Students in 8F have finished and 8S should finish early this week and will be added as completed.

Alaina and Rebecca

Frank and Elise

Sam K, Margaret and Francesca

Jacob, Ian and Nick

Sam and Ford

Kyle and Aleks

Emma and Harper

After completing your Voicethread submission, the next inclass project will be to create a 60 second recap of either the required summer reading book, The Pearl or any other summer reading book (that you’ve read) chosen by the group.  Please take a look at the 60 second recap site to understand what is required. This is an example of a recap of Animal Farm. This section, called Lights, Camera, Recap may be helpful. You will be working in assigned groups. The format of the recap may follow the example categories, or you may choose to use the categories given on Shmoop.com I am looking for an overview, characters, themes and an analysis of the literary devices used.  You will be required to write a script for each section and produce a 60 second video for each section.

60 Second Recap Assignment

1. Choose the book to recap

2. Partners will be assigned

3. Decide on categories

4. Write scripts

5. Get any props or graphics ready

6. Practice scripts

7. Film your recaps

Please fill in a separate form for each of the 4 student sites you are evaluating. You will get the list of sites in class on Wednesday, 5/4. If you cannot see the entire form- Click here.

After looking through all of the suggestions- Web pages will be due Friday April 29th. The criteria they will be graded on includes:

• Effort
• # of Pages- a minimum of 3 pages required
• Videos- optional
• Must have pictures with captions (collages do not need individual captions, but should have one for the collage)
• Must include text- paragraph
• Will be peer reviewed on Wed May 4th

Click here to turn in url of your web site