Terry Fox Run at ACSS

 

 

Friday September 28 is the Terry Fox Run at our school.

Your task is to photograph and report on the run as it is happening around the school.



Visualize the photos you want to take and where.


Upload your photos to your computer or e-mail them to yourself and:

1. Edit your photographs (select the better ones), then with photoshop, do the necessary cropping, correcting of exposures and resizing.

2. Of these, choose your best top 5 photos and submit them to the yearbook.
Go to Hand-in, then "Yearbook Infotech9", make your own folder, call it Terry Fox and your name, ex "Terry Fox Run by Don Smith".

3. Choosing 3 photos of the run, post them on your blog with a description of how the Terry Fox run went. Blog on the event and indicate the participants in the photos and a general feeling of how the day went.

Terry Fox

 

Terry Fox Foundation

Find, research and then post an informative blog describing in your own words who Terry Fox was and what the Terry Fox Foundation is about.

 

Include some photographs and at least one link to something about Terry Fox and the Terry Fox Foundation.

Assignment 5: Using the Pen Tool in Photoshop

Using the Pen Tool is a great way to make custom shapes such as cirlces, squares, stars, water droplets, or just about any shape you can thing of.

1. Go to http://www.tutorial9.net/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/pen-tool-basics-in-photoshop/ and complete the tutorial.

• Using photoshop create the shapes in the tutorial and save them in your student folder.

2. Then create the following shapes, save and post them on your Blog

• Blue Square
• Red Rounded Rectangle
• Purple Triangle with Yellow Poka Dots
• Lime Green Blob
• Your own creative shape!

Assignment 4: Webpages

Use Dreamweaver to create webpages which will be hosted on Dropbox and linked to from blogspot.

Test This Link

Assignment 3: Tattoo

Download 4 colourful tattoos.  They must be pictures of a person's tattoo.
Remove the skin and all but the outline of the tattoo. Change the mode to greyscale.
Insert a new black layer.  Bevel and emboss the tattoo.  You may need to brush in features or erase other erroneous items.  Save the psd file and jpg file to hand-in - post the jpg.

Begin with a dragon.

Assignment 2: Name

Post your name.
Convert the Photoshop file to JPG then upload it.

Assignment 1: Introduction to INFOTECH 9

 

1. Create your own Infotech 9 Blog on http://www.blogspot.com/
2. Blogger will take you through the steps you need to follow.
   Decide which template you wish to use along with your choice of colors and fonts and complete your profile.
3. For your first posting, write a paragraph explaining in your own terms, what Information Technology means to you.
4. Provide examples of Information Technology with photographs that reinforce your examples. Be creative in your presentation.

After creating your digital blog, provide Mr. Bilesky or Mr. Omorean with your URL.