1. 8 TH G RADE C OMPUTER A PPLICATIONS Course Overview

2. C OURSE I NFORMATION ½ year elective Class meets for a double period every other day Increase student knowledge of today’s popular computer programs and become more proficient end users. Introduce students to software programs used in High School classes such as web design, digital photography, and many others.

3. U NITS OF S TUDY Internet Safety, Search Techniques and Online Content Laws Adobe Photoshop Audacity Office Applications: Word Publisher Powerpoint Macromedia Flash Adobe Premiere

4. I NTERNET S AFETY AND S EARCH T ECHNIQUES Internet Safety: Staying safe with social networking Facebook, Twitter, MySpace Internet Searching (Beyond the Basics): How Search Engines work Boolean Logic Advanced Google Searching Legalities: Copyright laws and illegal music/movie downloading P2P Sharing Sites (Limewire, Kazaa, Frostwire, BitTorrent) Fayetteville-Manlius Computer Use Policy

5. P HOTO E DITING (A DOBE P HOTOSHOP ) Working with Photoshop Tools Brushes Colors Text Smudge/Blur Tools Fills/Gradient Colors Clone Stamp Lasso/Wand Layers Photo Editing Touch-ups Filters Applying Special Effects

6. A SSIGNMENTS Students will perform multiple daily assignments utilizing many of the different tools in Photoshop to show proficiency. Upon completion of the daily assignments students will then complete their major projects. Examples are included on subsequent pages and include: Haunted House Magazine Cover Creating unique collages for the calendar project

7. H AUNTED H OUSE P ROJECT Original: Edited:

8. P HOTOSHOP M AGAZINE C OVER Students design an original magazine cover featuring themselves Only object native to the picture is the students head and the rest of the cover is created utilizing Photoshop

9. C ALENDAR P ROJECT (P UBLISHER ) Students will learn how to create calendars in publisher while incorporating their own Photoshop designs. Each calendar will include 13 edited pictures. One for each month and an additional picture for the cover. Students will then add holiday’s and special events to each month as well as edit the calendar dates for their own design preferences.

10. C ALENDAR E XAMPLES

11. A DVANCED O FFICE A PPS. (W ORD ) Headers/Footers Watermark Floating Pictures Alignment Tools Paste Special (.gif &.jpg) Word art Drawing Tools Smart Art Alignment Tabs

12. A D S AMPLES

13. A UDACITY (A UDIO E DITING ) Students will learn about what makes a radio advertisement interesting and tips/tricks that motivate a listener to do what advertisers desire. Students will create an audio advertisement for either their Calendar or one of their Word Advertisements. Advertisements will include: Background Instrumentals Student Voiceovers Sound Effects Students may include other audio effects as desired

14. A NIMATION (M ACROMEDIA F LASH ) Macromedia Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Common uses of flash include: Games Internet Advertisements Internet Animations Buttons and other objects on websites

15. M ACROMEDIA F LASH CONT. In Computer Applications students will learn about the tools and design sequences required to produce a flash animation. These tools and concepts include: Creating Motion Frame by Frame Animation Motion Tweening Shape Tweening Working with Audio Nested Animations Students will then produce an original animated movie utilizing the skills acquired in class.

16. M ACROMEDIA F LASH CONT. Timeline/Layers Tools Stage

17. M OVIE M AKING (A DOBE P REMIERE ) Students may make 2 types of movies, Standard Capture and Stop Motion Standard Capture movies are taken with a camcorder (similar to home videos) and consist of making a film from an initial story idea, then directing, shooting, and editing the final product Students will be utilizing a “green screen” to edit themselves into existing clips. Examples include: An instructional Video News or Sports Cast Stop Motion is an animation technique to make inanimate objects appear to move on their own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence. Students will create an original stop motion movie utilizing whiteboards, play dough or other inanimate objects as the “actors”

18. M OVIE M AKING C ONT. Working with Media in the timeline Trimming Raw Video Footage Organizing Clips/Transitions/Speed Adding Effects/Transitions/Titles/Themes Adding Audio Planning/Storyboarding