Your Personal Logo

In class we watched a presentation about logos.  The logos were mostly for companies, but all told a story.
Think of what your personal logo would be.  Your logo should tell a story, bring about qualities that you value and be unique.
Create your logo on Inkscape.  It should have no more than 3 words and be created entirely from YOU (do not copy and paste images).
Use the tools from Inkscape that we learned in class to create you design.

Typing Friday

Log onto the typing website.  Your username is your first and last last name.  Your password is your student ID.

http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/

Wednesday-Inkscape tutorial

You will spend most of today's period working on the design of your Inkscape creation.  Mr. Johansson will present a brief tutorial that covers:

• Using gradient
• Editing paths by nodes
• Coping images using the spray tool

Tuesday-Inkscape Tutorial

You will spend most of today's period working on your Inkscape creations.  At the start of the period Mr. Johansson will give a tutorial on how to use several of Inkscape's features including:

• changing font and size of text
• using the Fill and Stroke tool to change an objects shading and boarders
• putting text on a path

Poetry Project

April is National Poetry Month!
In honor of this month you will find a poem that you like and illustrate it using Inkscape.


1) Spend the first 10-15 minutes of the class period surfing the following poetry sites and reading some of the poems.  Try finding a few poems that you like.

• Funny poems written by students:

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/funny/funny-children-poems.asp

• Poems by Langston Hughes:

http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/poems/

• Top 500 poets:

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/l.asp?a=0&l=Top500&p=1

• Chilrdren's Poetry Archive

http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/poemsHome.do

2) Select one of the poems that you found.  Copy and paste your poem and its author to a new Inkscape document or Word document and save it to your Y drive.

3) Illustrate the poem using Inkscape. Be sure to select a different font and use the tools that we learned about this quarter to illustrate your poem.

Typing Friday

Good morning!  Today you will have your first typing practice day.  Click on the link below and log in.  Your username is your first and last name, no spaces, no capitals.  Your password is your student id.

http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/

Google Zeitgeist

All information that is created and uses a computer is available to other people.  A practice called 'data farming' gathers your information in order to sell it to companies who want to sell you their products.
Google is the #1 used search engine used around the world.
Google Zeitgeist is a part of Google that lets you see what the most popular searches are.  Click on the link below and answer a few questions about searches made in 2011.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVfRTNkcFlmVDVSTTBkdmJ4NHhCX0E6MQ#gid=0

The Oregonian 2

Yesterday we learned how to log onto The Oregonian website and make our way around the paper. Today, you will practice those skills and answer a few questions using today's Oregonian. Click on the link below to complete the activity:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhXSzhIbWN6ZXNBUVNuQkM1dnFmN2c6MQ#gid=0

Intro To Inkskape

Inkscape is an open-source graphic design program. In other words, it's a free program that allows you to create art projects. We are going to wrap up class with an introduction to this program.

1. Open up the Inkscape program by double clicking the desktop icon, or going to Start > programs > Inkskape


2. Use the circle tool and create one circle


3. Use the quadrilateral tool and create one quadrilateral (hint: it has four sides like a square or rectangle)


4. Use the lettering tool and write your first and last name


5. Save it to your Y drive and title it: Inkscape Intro


6. If you have time left try changing the colors on your shapes, make them larger/smaller, copy/paste them

An Introduction to The Oregonian and Inkskape

Agenda:

1. The Oregonian
2. Inkscape

Journalism is many things. Newspapers are full of journalism. Today, we will look at The Oregonian and how to navigate around the newspaper. Finally, we will have a short introduction to a graphic design program named Inkscape.

First, click on the link below for the Docs assignment:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGE1c25PcnRZOEJlZWc1X2NLY2xwREE6MQ#gid=0

Saving To Your Y Drive

Every student at Lane has their own personal storage file. When you log in to your computer you are connected with your own account and drive. This drive is called your Y drive. This is where you will save all of your work for this class.

We will practice saving to your Y drive.

1. Open Microsoft Word


2. Copy and paste, or retype this sentence, to the new Word document: This is a test to save to my Y drive.


3. Save this document to your Y drive. Click on: File > Save As > My Computer > Y drive (the drive extension will start with your user name)


4. Title this file "Y Drive Save"

Welcome to Quarter 4 Journalism

Welcome to Quarter 4 Journalism

Agenda:

1. Group Activity: Last Name First
2. First Day Survey: Google Docs
3. Saving to our Y drive

Click on the link below (in orange) and complete the survey. This will give me an idea about you and what skills you bring to this class.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHRuV3BYbmhDc2ZwbjN0ZzJMN214TFE6MQ#gid=0