DesignDesign Specification
Here is your DESIGN SPECIFICATION . The Design Specification is a list of all the details that must be included on your final product (your Publisher Newsletter). Each newsletter must: be 4 page s ; include a Newsletter Title; include Volume and Issue Numbers; include a Newsletter Date; Photo Gallery; Captioned photos; Bulleted Sidebar; choose appropriate Template; Customize Colour Scheme; 2 Different Fonts; 1 Drop Cap; the text in the "Lead Story" must be justified; no hypenations at the end of the line; must be attractive, articles included should be error-free (!!!)
Due at end of period.
"A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any typeThis term we are inviting Voicethread into our classroom and we will use it on a regular basis to help us focus our thoughts in an organized way and share them with the group. Friends and parents will also be able to participate in our learning by leaving comments of their own. Let's take a few minutes and investigate the "edu-toy" of the term.
of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5
different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file,
or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread
allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from
anywhere in the world."
Year 9, I'm sorry I'm not here to help you finalize your projects BUT you are great kids and you know exactly what to do to be successful.
Year 9 - It's Leap Year! 
Year 9 -
Be industrious (this should take 1 class period).
Write your reflection in your blog.
Year 9 - Today we are going to recap and focus on the MYP Technology Design Cycle. 
INVESTIGATION:
1-What is a newsletter? Research, and then give a definition in your own words.
2-What is the purpose of a newsletter? Explain and give an example of a newsletter.
3-Now, please do an analysis of the newsletter you are using as an example. Give detailed information about the newsletter you are using as an example. (Look at topics such as: What are the average number of pages? What is the color scheme? Does it inform its readers of events/news? What other aspects or topics should you also consider????)
4-Name (at least) 2 programs which are designed to create newsletters. (Include details about the features that each one offers.
5-Why are we using Microsoft Publisher? Justify your answer.
Using this link, research “Creating High School Newsletters” (http://www.online.tusc.k12.al.us/shortc/newsltrs/introduction.htm) and answer the following questions.
6. What are the characteristics of an effective newsletter?
7. What are the steps of putting together a newsletter?
Also, your Unit of Work is online (finally).
Blogs are interactive and I would love to visit your blog and leave you a comment. Please make sure that I have your blog address before class finishes today.
Today we will continue working on the online tutorials and completing the practice exercises. You will then upload the finished product onto your blog. We will save your project as a picture/image and upload it. It's easy;-)
-Click on the Microsoft icon in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.
-Next, Click on Save As. When the box opens make sure that you are saving this to YOUR personal folder on the school's server.
-In the Save File As box scroll down until you find JPEG File Interchange Format. (We want to save the file as a JPEG.)Click on Save and you are almost done.
-Finally, create a new post in your blog and upload the image by clicking on the "image" icon and uploading the file.
It's that easy!
Next, in the "sidebar" open the tutorial entitled "Creating School Newsletters". This tutorial has several sections (Introduction, Planning, Writing, Layouts, Graphics, Production, Search). To gather pertinent information regarding newletters, please take a look. Today we will focus on the Introduction. Please read about each of the topics:
Creating School Newsletters
Introduction to Newsletters
Purposes for Newsletters
Newsletter Terminology
Welcome Year 9. I am Ms. Dietrich and I will be your tech teacher for Term 2. This is going to be a great time and you are going to become proficient using Microsoft Publisher. That is a program that is used for creating Newsletters (among other things). Our Unit of Work will culminate in your class creating a Community and Service Newsletter which will be uploaded on the school's server.
4) Now it's time to EVALUATE. On your Word document under the title of EVALUATE, please address the following:
Have a great weekend Year 9 - You were great this week!
Here is your DESIGN SPECIFICATION. The Design Specification is a list of all the details that must be included on your final product (your Publisher Newsletter). Each newsletter must: be 1 page; include a Newsletter Title; include Volume and Issue Numbers; Newsletter Date; Customized Color Scheme; 2 Different Fonts; 1 Drop Cap; the text in the "Lead Story" must be justified; include at least 1 image but no more than 3 images (picture/illustration/graphic); include a caption describing image; must be attractive, articles included should be error-free(!!!)
Also, you MUST insert a text box at the bottom of your Newsletter and include the name of the template which you are using.
1) Your newsletter should be created following the above Design Specification.
2) After you have finished creating your newsletter - Save it 2 ways. First, save it as a publisher file to your folder on the school's server. Second, save it as an image. It's easy to do that - Click on File. Next, click on Save As. Then a box will appear - you will Save this file to your folder on the School's Server. But at the botton of the box I want you to make 2 changes. Change the File Name to: "FinalProject Image" AND Change the Save as Type to "JPEG File Interchange Format". That was easy, wasn't it Year 9?
3) Justify any deviation (changes) from the original design (the design you chose in the Design part of your project).
4) Upload the JPEG image to your blog.
Well done Year 9!
