Monday, May 13, 2019

Final Project!

Create your own newspaper!

It must include:

Broadsheet size: 90p0 x 50p0
One Teaser/Promo Above the Masthead.
Your Own MASTHEAD
One Reverse Type Promo on the newspaper
3 photos--One dominant, the others MUST have a caption
3 Major headlines with decks
1 Advertisement at the bottom of the page
A small teaser/promo at the bottom of the page
Jumps for all three stories (you may have filler text for stories)
One Reference
One Infographic
Bylines for all 3 stories

120 points!
Due Wed. May 21

Example:

 

Friday, May 3, 2019

TAKE THIS SURVEY!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR STUDENTS

1.      Log into a TUSD Computer with your TUSD username and password. (Survey tool does NOT work in kiosk mode)
2.      Go to https://tinyurl.com/SCTUSD1
3.      Log into SchoolCity with TUSD username and password.
4.      Click on the word “Survey”
5.      Take the Survey called “CTE Needs Assessment Student Survey
6.      Please answer all 7 questions. (Please note: Text to Speech and Translator Tools (English to Spanish) are ON)
7.      Submit Survey.
8.      Log out.

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Front Page Recreation!

You've created a skeleton, and a front page template for the Cactus Chronicle. Now, you're going to attempt to recreate a newspaper of your choice.

As a helpful hint, here's the pixel settings for the following newspapers:

MAKE SURE YOU CHANGE YOUR SIZES IN THE INDESIGN WINDOW!!!

Broadsheet: 90p0 x 50p0
Berliner: 70p0 x 40p0
Tabloid: 40p0 x 30p0

This is the site you're visiting! But it's in the PowerPoint too!

DO IT.


Wednesday, April 3, 2019

InDesign Day 2

Alright, take a look at the following presentation and images in this post.


You'll need to click and drag the images to your desktop, and follow along with the presentation...



Your template will look like this when you're finished:


To get full credit for this assignment, call me over when you're done so I can take a look at it!


Click here to download the images needed to place in your template!



Monday, April 1, 2019

InDesign... for your Certification!

Click and drag to your desktop...

Here's your instructions for creating this lovely Cactus Chronicle Template:






Save a copy of it to your computer by simply clicking on the photo, and dragging it to your desktop. 







Then, come back here and go through the instructions on how to make your InDesign document look the same way.




Friday, March 29, 2019

Where to take the assessment:

You can click on this link to take the assessment test:

Assessment Test

You will need a unique code to test. See me for the codes.