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December 12, 2006

Putting Your Documentation Together

Before your project documentation can be considered complete, it needs to have the following:

- Statement of problem
- Design brief
- Brainstorm (spider diagram)
- Specification (use, market, price, materials, colours etc)
- Production plan (step-by-step instructions on how to construct your toy. This must include an accurate list of materials and tools used in construction)
- List three ways you can test your toy for durability and usability
- Evaluation: did you meet your specification? Did anything go wrong or were there setbacks during the project? Did anything go very wel? What would you improve upon or do differently?

Make sure that your name is on each page, and the pages are accurately numbered. Please keep your font, font size and headings in a consistent style.

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November 13, 2006

Project 1 Wrapup

Middle School students: We should be nearing the end of our projects soon (Pocket Puzzle, Steadyography, Flying Toy). You will need to make sure that your written documentation is complete and in your design folders by no later than Friday, November 24th. This will include:

Statement of problem

Design brief

Brainstorm (spider-diagram)

Specification list

etc...

Please see your project lists (supplied by us and in the front of your technology folder) for a more comprehensive list. All of your documentation (with the exception of your sketches) will need to be typed up (without colours and Word Art!) in Microsoft Word and saved as "project_name"_documentation.doc (like pocket_puzzle_documentation.doc).

A detailed list of the documentation requirements is available here.

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November 12, 2006

HTML & CSS: Putting it all Together

By now the majority of Middle School students will have an HTML document with code resembling the following:



<html>

  

    <head>

    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">

    </head>

  

<body>



<div id="header">

    <h1>Toy Website</h1>

</div>



<div id="menu">

    <ul>

        <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>

        <li>Gallery</li>

        <li>Contact</li>

    </ul>

</div>



<div id="placeholder">

    <img src="image.jpg" />

</div>



<div id="blockquote">

    <blockquote>The  toy you've all been waiting for has finally arrived!</blockquote>

</div>



<div id="block">

    <h2>Why Our Toy Is The Best</h2>

    <h3>We Know Toys</h3>

    <p>Our space-age toy was lovingly handcrafted by Aleutean monks....</p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Read on to find out more on how you should be finishing off the formatting of your HTML pages...

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September 29, 2006

Creating a New Student

Grade 7 students will be creating a brand new classmate using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop Elements.

The aim of this exercise is not to create a monster, but rather to create a new person, cloned from parts of your existing classmates. There is a folder with the 7EX photos on your desktops.

Things to Remember
- Open up the photographs up from within Photoshop Elements instead of double-clicking on the photo in the folder.

- Set the brush size of your Clone Stamp tool to a size approprate to the pictures you are using.

- The Clone Stamp tool will not work properly unless you define a source point first. This is done by holding down the Alt key while clicking on the area you want to clone from.

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December 12, 2006

Putting Your Documentation Together

November 13, 2006

Project 1 Wrapup

November 12, 2006

HTML & CSS: Putting it all Together

September 29, 2006

Creating a New Student

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