Tag Archives: Fall 2016

Computer Graphic Design

Welcome to Adobe InDesign 2016

Welcome to our InDesign unit! Today we will begin learning about the Adobe software suite, and the properties of the InDesign page layout software.

Objective:
Take the InDesign pre-test.

Student-Friendly Objective:
I can complete the InDesign pre-test.

Links:
InDesign pre-test on Google Classroom.

Topics Discussed:
Adobe InDesign CC 2015

Assignment:

  • Visit my Google Classroom site and take the InDesign pre-test.
  • Remember, this is a pre-test, so do your best to answer all the questions, but don’t worry if you don’t have all the answers. That’s what you’re here to learn.
  • Submit your test answers before the end of the class period today.
  • Make sure you mark the assignment as “Done” when you finish to confirm that you took the test.

 

Assigned: August 19th, 2016
Due Date: August 19th, 2016

Computer Graphic Design

Servers and File Shares 2016

Objective:
  • Launch an application in the Macintosh environment
  • Create and Save a document in the Macintosh environment
  • Connect to the classroom file server
  • Turn in an assignment to the appropriate Student Drop Folder
Student-Friendly Objective:
  • I can create a file and copy it to an online shared folder.
Video Links:

None
Topics Discussed:
  • OSX El Capitan
  • Microsoft Word
  • File Servers and Volumes

Assignment:

  1. Connect to the server by activating the Finder (Click on your desktop wallpaper), and using the Go -> Connect to Server menu command, or the keyboard shortcut (Command + K).
  2. The server address is smb://10.4.22.58. Enter this in the address field and click the blue Connect button.
  3. Connect as a Guest by clicking the “Guest” button and clicking the Connect button.
  4. Scroll down in the list and select the “StudentTempFiles” volume and click OK.
  5. Navigate through StudentTempFiles to the “Marmolejo CGD 1-2” folder. Drill down through this folder to the Student Drop Folder, find your period number and locate the target folder for today’s assignment (1 – I Want to Learn…).
  6. Launch Microsoft Word (Go Menu -> Applications -> Microsoft Office Folder -> Microsoft Word) and write a few sentences describing  what you would most like to learn in this class and why you would like to learn this. (Do you want to learn how to design magazine covers? Edit digital photographs? Enhance your drawing skills using computer tools? Draw cartoons? Make art?) Make sure you use proper grammar and run a spell check before you are finished. Save this file with your name as the file name. It should automatically save to your Documents folder. Remember the location of this document.
  7. Copy (drag and drop) the file you created from your Documents folder to the appropriate target folder on the StudentsTempFiles server. (StudentsTempFiles/Student Drop Folder/<Your Class Period>/1 – I Want To Learn…).

Assigned: August 17th, 2016
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 18th, 2016