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Student Profile Project 2018

Objective: Students will use will use all of the skills they have acquired in the previous week’s lessons to produce a document that represents them and their goals.
Student-Friendly Objective: I can use InDesign to make a document that represents myself and my goals.

Topics Discussed:

  • InDesign Page Layout
  • Default Settings
  • Pages Palette
  • Layers Palette
  • Links Palette
  • Stroke Palette
  • Color Palette
  • Swatches Palette
  • Fill
  • Stroke
  • Type Tool
  • Type on a Path Tool
  • Character Palette
  • Character Formatting Controls
  • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Font
  • Leading
  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
  • Baseline
  • Baseline Shift
  • Skew
  • Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
  • Indent
  • Drop Cap
Assignment:
  1. Download the Student Profile Example and use it as your guide to completing this project. Create a new Letter size (8.5 inches x 11 inches) document in InDesign.
  2. You must have all of these sections on your profile, with all the information listed on sample.
    1. My Schedule
    2. Vital Information
    3. Personal History
    4. Favorites
  3. You must have five pictures. Save all pictures in a folder in the same location as your .indd file to preserve the image links. Your pictures should include:
    1. A picture of yourself that clearly shows your face
    2. Four other pictures of your choice (You may use the Internet)
  4. Headlines:
    1. Each section must have a headline describing the section.
    2. See the sections above for the four headlines for the sections that you will need 24 pt type or bigger.
    3. The largest headline will say “Student Profile: Your Name” in 36 pt or bigger type
  5. Fonts:
    1. You may only use three different fonts.
    2. The size for the body copy (all the words that aren’t headlines) is 12 point.
  6. Color:
    1. Use as much color as you want. I will be printing them in color and hanging them on the cabinets in my classroom.
  7. Design:
    1. This is your design. Do not make it look exactly like the example shown in class, or anybody else’s profile.

Turn in your completed Student Profile .indd file, and all of the images (a minimum of five) you used to the Google Classroom assignment page by Friday, August 31st, 2018.

Assigned: August 27th, 2018
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 31st, 2018

Intro to InDesign 2018 – Working with Type

Objective:

  • Create and modify type using the InDesign tools.
  • Place type onto a page and format it using the Character and Paragraph Formatting Controls.

Student-Friendly Objective:

  • I can use the Type tools and Palettes to create and modify type in InDesign.

Vocabulary:

  • Type Tool
  • Type on a Path Tool
  • Character Palette
  • Character Formatting Controls
  • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Font
  • Leading
  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
  • Baseline
  • Baseline Shift
  • Skew
  • Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
  • Indent
  • Drop Cap
Links:
 
Topics Discussed:
  • Adobe InDesign CC 2017

Assignment:

  1. Follow along with the in-class demonstration, or watch the videos in the Links section above.
  2. In the same InDesign document that we have been working with this week, use the Pages Palette to add two additional pages:
    • Page 3: Your name in 72pt type across the top of the page, and two columns of 12pt overflowed placeholder text (placed with the “Fill with Placeholder Text” command). All paragraphs should start with a 2-line Drop Cap, be Left Justified, and should be double-spaced (adjust the leading), have the tracking (space between letters), the text vertical width and horizontal height adjusted.
  3. When your document meets all the requirements, save it as “YOUR NAME – InDesign Week 1”
  4. Upload a copy to the Google Classroom assignment titled “InDesign Week 1” by end of day on Friday, August 24th.

Assigned: August 22nd, 2018
Teacher Pacing Due Date: August 24th, 2018