End of Year Projects – Web Design and Applications
Time: About 5 weeks (25 class periods – more or less)
Objective: Complete a project that will use the web skills you have learned so far and expand your knowledge of software, computers, and/or the internet.
Deliverables (and Payments):
Project proposal (20 points) [see examples on page 4 & 5]
q States what you hope to do and how you will go about it.
q You need to identify at least one book or two websites that will be your primary resource.
q
If not delivered on timed payment will be
reduced. (“D” or lower on progress report if not delivered before progress
reports)
Daily Journal (100 points, 2 installments) [see example page 6]
q In your student folder, a word document named DailyJournal
q Each day write 4 to 10 sentences about what you have done, what you have learned, what problems occurred, and what you will do on the following day(s).
q You will be reminded the last 10 minutes of each class to do this
Mid-Project Benchmark (40 points)
q A mini-project, report, presentation, or draft that shows you are making progress towards your overall project.
Feedback part I (20 points)
q Share your Benchmark with 2-3 classmates
q Learn about the Benchmark for 2-3 classmates
q Share oral and written feedback with 2-3 classmates
q You will be put in groups for this on one day and be given forms to fill out as part of the written feedback process
Project Summary (50 points)
A written paper (250-500 words) explaining
q what you set out to do
q where you found the best information
q things you learned as you worked
q the final result
q what you would do next if you had more time.
Feedback part 2 (20 points)
q Share oral and written feedback with classmates in small groups (similar to part I)
(continued)
Presentation (20 points)
q Present your project and your summary to the class. Two to five minutes.
q Deduction from payment if under 2 minutes, over 5 minutes, or just reading slides or paper to the class.
Feedback part 3 (20 points)
q Share oral and written feedback with classmates after presentations
The Project (60 points)
q For most of you this will be a flash movie, a collection of photoshop pictures, a website, a program, or some other “thing” that you’ve produced. For a few of you, it might be something less tangible – a learning or a discovery. For the less tangible projects, your project summary may be the project, in which case it will be graded twice.
NOTE ABOUT PAYMENTS: Generally you will be paid the points noted. Doing a half-way job will generally result in no payment or being told to do it again (just like in the real world). At some point, deadlines become a factor and you will not be paid for work that is late. Exceptional work (or delivering more than was asked) may earn you a bonus. You are still being paid a salary of daily points for being here on time and staying on task – please continue to earn your pay.
DEADLINES: (Work at home, lunch, or after school if you fall behind)
Friday 4/15/2011 Project Proposal due End of Class
Tuesday 4/28/2011 Re-Submission of Project Proposal based on instructor feedback
Friday 5/13/2011 First Daily Journal Check (half points earned or lost)
Monday 5/16/2011 Mid Project Benchmark due at End of Class
Tuesday 5/17/2011 Feedback Part I in class
Friday 5/27/2011 Draft Summary due beginning of class – Feedback Part II
Tuesday 5/31/2011 Second Daily Journal Check (half points earned or lost)
Wednesday 6/1/2011 Final Summary and Project due
Thur/Fri & Presentations – Seniors go first!!
Finals Week Presentations, Feedback Part III
Mr. T’s ideas for project (ideas in bold are better for Web Design, Italics are better for Applications)
EXAMPLE PROPOSAL 1:
Joe Student
4/26/07
Proposal for Web Design Final Project:
Learning how to use Nero Photoshow
Narrative:
I recently purchased Nero Photoshow to do a slideshow with music for my father’s 60th birthday. I did a little research before buying it to try to figure out if it was really the best (I really wanted to use something that was free but didn’t like any of these). For my project, I want to build the slide show which will contain at least 50 slides and have 5 to 10 songs (all of them clips – not the whole songs). Photoshow allows transitions and lots of neat effects which I will explore and use as I see fit.
In addition to the slideshow, I’ll produce a chart that shows the different features of Photoshow, ones that I used, ones that I didn’t use, and ones that I wish it had. I’ll also create a step-by-step document that walks someone through creating a slide show and then burning it to a DVD or CD.
Resources:
Photoshow built-in help/tutorials
These links (none of them have a lot but between all of them I’ll have enough, I hope)
http://photography.consumerelectronicsnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=37698
http://graphicssoft.about.com/b/a/092215.htm
ftp://ftp6.nero.com/tutorials/recode2/NR2_for_SonyPSP_tut_eng.pdf
Recap of
deliverables:
Slideshow for Father’s 50th Birthday
Chart of features and wishlist
Step-by-Step for using Photoshow
Mid-project
goal:
Either chart or Step-by-step
Draft (maybe 20 pictures) of final slideshow
EXAMPLE PROPOSAL 2:
Josephine Teen
4/26/07
Proposal for Web Design Final Project:
Building the ultimate Flash Cartoon
Narrative:
I really like Southpark even though the animation is lousy. I want to create my own set of “cut-out” characters and create a cartoon with them. My goal would be to create 3-5 characters that are very simple shapes. I would then create a funny plot and put them in it. It would probably involve opening credits, at least two scenes, and closing credits. Of course I’ll have music and sound effects. I’d probably have them talking but would probably start with word bubbles and add the speaking once everything else is done. I think I’d ask different people in the class to audition for the characters voices.
Resources:
Flash 5 Cartooning (borrowed from Mr. T)
Learning Flash (class textbook)
There are tons of good links like the one below:
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/multimedia/shockwave_flash/tutorials/tutorial8.html
Recap of
deliverables:
3-5 character sketches (first on paper, then as Flash Symbols)
A script outlining the plot, dialogue, and scene descriptions
The Flash cartoon (minimum 90 seconds, my goal is 3 – 5 minutes)
Posted to the web (with Mr. Taylor’s help)
Mid-project
goal:
Script and characters done
Daily Journal
Example:
Monday 4/30/2010
Spent some time
thinking about what I want to do. I’m
pretty sure I want to do a set of CD’s and CD covers related to each of my
classes. The idea would be to do a cover
related to the subject (like English – I’d probably put a bunch of grammar
words on it and show books and pencils and stuff). The playlist would all be songs related to
English in some way. Maybe names of
famous books or authors. I know this
song by The Police – “Don’t stand so close to me” where they mention the book
by Nabokov. I guess I’d need to do liner
notes that explained the significance of each song. This might be harder than I thought but I
really liked doing the CD covers and this seems like something Mr. Taylor might
let me do. I guess I’ll ask him today and
think about it some more at home tonight so I’m ready to start working
tomorrow.
Tuesday 5/1/2010
Did a little brainstorming last night and came up with a CD cover idea for each one of my classes as well as a couple of songs for each one of them. Mr. Taylor said it was okay but that I definitely had to write liner notes as part of the project as well as create a web page for each CD cover that had the liner notes on it. He suggested I try to think of a few songs every day because I won’t be able to think of them all at one time. I wrote this all up in a word document and printed it out as my proposal. I even started the CD cover for my science class (I’m putting a mad scientist on it and I’m going to try to get a picture of Mr. Hudson to put in the person’s face). Tomorrow I’ll finish that and spend some time finding songs that I like that fit into the different categories.
Wednesday 5/2/2010
Science CD is
finished although I still don’t have Mr. Hudson’s picture. It’s pretty cool looking. I took some stuff from some old Frankenstein
movies. I came up with a couple of songs
for science – Weird Science by Oingo Boingo, Darwin by Third Eye Blind, Super
Pop by Madonna (mentions Isaac Newton), and Marie Curie by the Blackspoons (I
had never heard of this but found a clip on the internet that was pretty
good). Next Steps: I’ll start my Trigonometry CD picture (Lots
of Shapes and Curves) and continue working on my playlists. I guess I need to start writing down what I’m
going to say for each song so I don’t leave that until the last minute. Maybe I’ll start a word document and as I
come up with a song I’ll just write down what it’s about related to the
subject. I guess I have to make sure I
remember how to do web pages at some point too.
Some
practical expectations:
I’ve done this for years now, so here are a
few guidelines of what I expect for these types of projects.
As mentioned in web design class, these are the basic expectations for THESE types of projects unless you convince me otherwise:
Flash Movie:
3 minute movie
Mid-Project: Script and significant progress (90 seconds?)
Flash Game:
Working game, Must show and explain code
Mid-project: Simple game and written instructions
Fireworks Portfolio
At Least 20 Photos with annotated explanation of effects, Before and After
pictures + instructions of how to create effect
Mid-project: Half of these done
Movie Maker or iMovie Movie
5 minutes, Some Original Material
Mid-project: Script and trailer
Web Site:
At least 8 pages, all written content original, some original photos, all other photos credited (NOT GOOGLE!)
Mid-Project: Navigation bar with links to all pages (some pages may be empty,
HALF must be finished)
MORE…
Movies and Websites Must have some original material - not just have pictures from the internet (max is C without)
Fireworks Editing projects: Must have before and after pictures along with instructions (max C otherwise)
Flash Games - Must show code, explain, and show which parts you changed (max C otherwise)
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SOME MORE SAMPLES, Ideas, and Past Projects:
See Flash Projects from Quarter 3
See Web Projects from Quarter 2
Animations:
Photoshop
Isaac's Slide Show (takes a while to load)
Short! example of a movie.
TECHNICAL NOTE:
WinFF is a great free program for converting different types of Video Formats to other compatible and SMALLER versions.