Posted by: tumocurriculum on: October 19, 2009
“Hovering” and “Clicking” When you’re browsing on the web, there is a lot of information displayed. How does that information appear on your computer screen? This is what we’re going to look at now. The NASA website has a ton of great information about the universe, galaxy and astronomy. Let’s take a look. Hover over [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: September 25, 2009
Websites speak “code” like people speak “languages” Think about the different languages that you hear around you – people on the street, or on the TV. You may hear some people speaking Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian, Russian, English, French, Farsi, Arabic, Georgian, Greek, and maybe many others. Are you able to understand all of these [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: July 21, 2009
STEP 1: Mixing colors for PAINT & LIGHT RED, BLUE & YELLOW are the classic primary colors. If you combine these colors with paint, they will make up every other color on the color spectrum. RED, BLUE & GREEN are the primary colors of light. If you combine these colors in light rays, they will [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: July 15, 2009
In this lesson, we are going to explore color theory and make your own color theme. STEP 1: All the Colors of the World All colors of the world are found in the color wheel. There are THREE colors that can be used to make up any color in the world – red, blue & [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 9, 2009
CRAP Lesson Explore the website examples: Vreele’s Blog, Zimmer Twins, Icon Buffet, Chevrolet.com Sketch in your sketchbook examples that demonstrate each principle Deconstruct a website – take screenshots of examples of these principles – find examples of the other principles in the Icon Buffet site. Other design principles to teach: White Space theory – the [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 8, 2009
Photoshop getting started: Water Droplets: http://www.n-sane.net/effects/water-drops/index.php Jelly Text Effects: http://psd.tutsplus.com/text-effects-tutorials/plastic-jelly-styles/ Watercolor Image Effects http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/watercolor-painting/page-3.php
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 8, 2009
Translations are here in PDF form: http://www.arak29.am/index.php?pt=6 Team of 4 people: designer, 2 programmers & IA Create guidelines for project, i.e. http://www.thinkquest.org/competition/website/rules.html Timeline and milestones Duedates Create our own culture of competition Must be one coach per team List what coaches may and may not do How to submit Have our own awards ceremony Language [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 5, 2009
Step 1: What is a Search Engine? What has made the World Wide Web such a great success is that pages saved on different computers all over the world may be interlinked with so-called hyper-text links (which are normally underlined). As we will see, these links do not only help you move from one web [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 4, 2009
Lesson on Creative Commons. Licensing on web. etc. Explore the following resources: Veer: Wonderful selection of stock photography iStock Photo Morgue File: Free! Stock Xchange Stock Vault iStock Pro Open Photo Getty Images Index Stock Imagery Absolute Vision Icon Buffet: Top notch icons for blogs, CMS, and more FamFamFam: A high qaulity, massive library of [...]
Posted by: tumocurriculum on: June 4, 2009
Exploration activity. Have students use “Cooliris” plugin on Firefox. scroll through the news section. Click on the news images of your interest and read a few articles Close Cooliris and browse to Flickr Do a Flickr search for “colorful”. Hover over one of the images and click on the “cooliris” image in the bottom left [...]
