Tag Archives: Intro to CGD

Adobe.com Accounts and The Adobe Suite

Objective:

  • Successfully create an Adobe ID on Adobe.com with your Haydenmagnet.org email address.
  • Test your Adobe.com Account by launching Adobe InDesign and logging in with your new account.

Student-Friendly Objective:

  • I can create a new account on Adobe.com using my haydenmagnet.org email address so that I can successfully access the Adobe Suite Apps throughout the school year.

Links:

Adobe.com: https://adobe.com

Topics Discussed:

  • Adobe.com
  • Adobe ID
  • Adobe Suite
  • Haydenmagnet.org

Assignment:

  • Open a Chrome browser and visit the Adobe.com website.
  • Click the grey Sign In link in the upper right corner to get to the “Sign In” page.
  • Under the blue “Sign In” button, where it says “Not a member yet?” click the blue “Get an Adobe ID” link.
  • Enter your information in the spaces provided. Please use your correct first and last name (no nicknames), your haydenmagnet.org email address, and your correct date of birth.
  • You may use any password you like, but make sure it is one you can remember, as I am unable to reset these passwords for you. (You may wish to use your Mac login password, to make it easier to remember.)
  • When you have entered all the required information, click on the blue Sign Up button to create your Adobe ID.
  • Notify me once you have successfully created your Adobe ID, and I will add it to the school’s list of authorized users. This will grant you access to the entire Adobe Suite of apps, no matter what computer you sign into.
  • To test your access, click on your Launchpad (the little rocketship in the dock) and click on Adobe InDesign CC 2019.
  • When the Adobe ID login window appears, enter your haydenmagnet.org email address, and the password you created to log in.
  • You should now be able to access all of the Adobe apps installed on the computers in our department. We will be working with several of these apps throughout the school year, starting with Adobe InDesign on Monday.
  • If you have any questions, my email address is mi.marmolejo@haydenmagnet.org.

Assigned: August 16th, 2019
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 19th, 2019

Servers and File Shares 2019

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 using the Connect to Server tools within OSX Mojave so that I can save files to an alternative location in case of an unexpected loss of Internet access.

Video Links:
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Topics Discussed:

  • OSX Mojave
  • 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 afp://10.4.22.151  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 (Launchpad -> 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. To hand in this assignment, 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…).
  8. This method of handing in assignments was the method we used to use for every assignment, before we gained access to Google Classroom. It still serves as a good backup method for collecting files that will still work in the unlikely but possible event that we cannot access Google Classroom over the Internet. Regardless, it still serves as a good exercise, as now you know how to connect to network shares using OSX Mojave, as well as how to upload files to a specific location on the local network.

Assigned: August 14th, 2019
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 15th, 2019