Inventor: For the Modern Fashion and Invention Assignment, your group (four or five people) will select an item from the mysterious basket of oddities. Using this item, you will create an idea for a marketable product in a group of four. The product you invent can not be the object's original intended use.
Photographer: Photograph this new item in use with
a digital camera. Save the pictures to a disk. All group members should
be involved in this process. Every group member should appear in
at least one photograph and should have a turn at being photographer.
In your group, you should crop the digital photographs using
Adobe Photoshop. Link here for a tutorial on Adobe
Photoshop.
Journalist: Each person will then compose a a handwritten
news article. Included within the written text should be some allusion
to the popular culture of television, film/video, or literature; this could
be a character, distinct event, or plot. HINT: Literature we have
studied in class is fair game.
After everyone in your group is completed a rough draft.
Exchange products and answer the following questions:
1. What aspect/s of popular culture did they use in their piece?
2. Why do you believe that they choose to use those particular popular
icons?
3. Would a person from another country be able to understand their
writing?
4. Please find five words and look them in the thesaurus. Write
down some possible synonyms.
Return the writings to their authors. Authors, consider changing
some of the words to synonyms that are more specific.
Link to a printable worksheet for this
assignment.
Return each other's rough drafts. Make all needed corrections
and compose your final copy in Microsoft Word. Click here on instructions
on how to use Microsoft
Word.
Web Designer: Using Netscape Composer, you will
make your own web page. There are a few things to keep in mind.
You can post your wonderful news article and digital photographs
of yourself as long as I have a signed parental consent form for you.
Please cite all sources if you obtain information from the Internet.
You may not post pictures of other students or post personal
information about yourself or anyone else (i.e. telephone numbers, e-mail
addresses, your address, etc.). Click here for an explanation of how to
use Netscape
Composer.
Super Cool Hints:
Cite all sources.
For example:
Picture
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r817.htm
Internet address of source
SAVE, SAVE, SAVE.
Use the tutorials.
Ask for help when you need it.
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