Thursday, April 30, 2009
Career Ed 8
Hi girls! Just a reminder to those students in 8M who attended the art event this morning: Your "learning styles" document is due by next class. Some of you have already handed it in, and some of you will have a bit of homework to catch up on. Remember to include the graph picture of your results as well as the number you scored in each category (you may copy and paste this information from the website and then format it to fit your Word document with the same font, size, spacing, etc.).
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Comp 8 Picnik wrap-up assignments
Hi girls. Our Picniking time is coming to an end (sad, I know). Before you complete the final two assignments, you MUST BE CAUGHT UP on the ones that are missing. I will be stepping students soon if the assignments have not been submitted. Many of you have overdue assignments that I still have not seen.
Once everything has been handed in, your final two assignments are as follows:
Assignment #1 - Endings
Choose an appropriate photo from Google Image Search or your own collection that would complement one of the following quotations:
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles
"Every end is a new beginning." - Proverb
"In my end is my beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"Nature's first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
- Robert Frost
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." - G.K. Chesterton
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." - Seneca
When you have completed this assignment, save it with your last name and "endings" and submit it to my drop box.
Assignment #2 - Own Choice
This one is self-explanatory. Have fun! You can use any effects you wish, and it is entirely your choice whether you want to add text or not. Remember to choose only the effects that will be complimentary (and not distracting) to the overall appeal of your photo.
Save the file with your last name and "own choice" and submit to the drop box.
Once everything has been handed in, your final two assignments are as follows:
Assignment #1 - Endings
Choose an appropriate photo from Google Image Search or your own collection that would complement one of the following quotations:
"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." - Orson Welles
"Every end is a new beginning." - Proverb
"In my end is my beginning." - T.S. Eliot
"Nature's first green is gold,
her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
but only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
so dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
- Robert Frost
"If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God." - G.K. Chesterton
“I didn't ask for it to be over. But then again I didn't ask for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunset.” - Javan
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." - Seneca
When you have completed this assignment, save it with your last name and "endings" and submit it to my drop box.
Assignment #2 - Own Choice
This one is self-explanatory. Have fun! You can use any effects you wish, and it is entirely your choice whether you want to add text or not. Remember to choose only the effects that will be complimentary (and not distracting) to the overall appeal of your photo.
Save the file with your last name and "own choice" and submit to the drop box.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Comp 8 Picnik subtlety assignment
Hi girls!
The first thing on the agenda is to finish and submit your friendship edits.
Once you have completed the editing assignment from last class, you may begin on today's assignment. The name of the game today is subtlety. You will add text in a watermark fashion to a photo of your choice, that is, allowing some of the background to show through by fading the intensity of the text. Be sure to select a text colour that is similar to the object on which you are superimposing it (i.e. Dark golden text to place on top of an autumn leaf). For this assignment you may choose from the following word sets, select from a combination of sets, or simply choose your own words (upon my approval):
1. Live / Love / Laugh
2. Peace / Renewal / Life
3. Hope / Love / Joy
4. Stop / Look / Listen
5. Dream / Believe / Achieve / Inspire
The finish product should be soft, subtle, and overall pleasing to the eye. Try to avoid having any distracting features. Sometimes less is more.
Other effective features: Soften, Vignette (in a subtle colour and perhaps a smaller size or strength than the preset), Matte, Sepia, Black and White, possibly Focal Soften (depending on the nature of your photo), etc.
Click to enlarge this example from the Picnik stock photos:
When you have completed your editing project, save this file with your last name and "Subtlety" and submit to my drop box.
The first thing on the agenda is to finish and submit your friendship edits.
Once you have completed the editing assignment from last class, you may begin on today's assignment. The name of the game today is subtlety. You will add text in a watermark fashion to a photo of your choice, that is, allowing some of the background to show through by fading the intensity of the text. Be sure to select a text colour that is similar to the object on which you are superimposing it (i.e. Dark golden text to place on top of an autumn leaf). For this assignment you may choose from the following word sets, select from a combination of sets, or simply choose your own words (upon my approval):
1. Live / Love / Laugh
2. Peace / Renewal / Life
3. Hope / Love / Joy
4. Stop / Look / Listen
5. Dream / Believe / Achieve / Inspire
The finish product should be soft, subtle, and overall pleasing to the eye. Try to avoid having any distracting features. Sometimes less is more.
Other effective features: Soften, Vignette (in a subtle colour and perhaps a smaller size or strength than the preset), Matte, Sepia, Black and White, possibly Focal Soften (depending on the nature of your photo), etc.
Click to enlarge this example from the Picnik stock photos:
When you have completed your editing project, save this file with your last name and "Subtlety" and submit to my drop box.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Science 7 exam review
The exam for both Science 7C and 7P will be on Wednesday, April 8th. The exam is on Unit 2: Structures and Designs, Topics 1-4.
Pages in the textbook to re-read: p. 74-109
Study questions to complete: Checkpoint p. 110 #1-5
In addition to the Checkpoint questions, here are some terms and concepts to help you to study before the exam:
Key terms:
- structure
- design
- natural
- manufactured
- function
- technology
- materials
- properties
- stress
- load
- compression
- tension
- compressive strength
- tensile strength
- metal fatigue
- alloys
- beam
- cantilever
- orientation
- neutral axis
Additional study questions:
1. List 10 examples each of manufactured and natural objects.
2. Name three structures that serve the same function (list, and name the function).
3. Describe how early human beings used simple structures to carry out basic functions. How many can you brainstorm? List them.
4. Manufactured and natural objects often share similar designs. What manufactured object has a design that may have been inspired by the spider web? List as many other examples of manufactured and natural objects that share similar designs (i.e. kangaroo pouch/bunnyhug, mushroom/umbrella, bird/hang glider, etc.).
5. Name two manufactured structures and two natural structures that are used for the function of digging.
6. Describe why a train bridge made of plastic would not be a wise design decision. Try to use the words materials, properties, stress, load, and compression/compressive strength in your answer.
7. What must designers take into account when choosing the right materials to use for a structure?
8. What will happen to a beam that is supported on both ends when it is put under stress? Where is the tension? Where is the compression?
9. What will happen when a load is placed on a cantilever? Where is the tension? Where is the compression?
10. Why are alloys often good material choices for structures? What do they offer that single metals do not?
11. How can a beam be strengthened so as to avoid bending or breaking under a load? Draw a sketch of a strengthened beam.
12. When a beam is placed on its narrow edge, what happens to the amount of load it can support? Why?
13. Explain why the amount of material along the neutral axis of a beam can be reduced without weakening the beam. Why is reducing the material along the neutral axis beneficial to the structure?
Leave me a comment here if you have any questions or comments. Happy studying! :o)
Picnik friendship assignment
Hi Comp 8!
Today's assignment, once you have finished your nature quote edit, is to edit a photo of friends (your own or one from Google) with one of the following quotes (or a friendship quote of your own choice, once approved by me):
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Donna Roberts
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Unknown
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer
"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together."
- John Evelyn
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"In a friend you find a second self."
- Isabelle Norton
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller
You may add any effects you wish, as long as you feel that they enhance your photo rather than detracting from it (try to avoid too many points of focus, as the editing you have worked so hard on will be less effective if the eye can't decide where to focus). When you are finished, save it as "lastname, friendship" and submit it to the drop box.
Once again, I can't wait to see what you come up with!
Some examples of my own friendship edits:
Today's assignment, once you have finished your nature quote edit, is to edit a photo of friends (your own or one from Google) with one of the following quotes (or a friendship quote of your own choice, once approved by me):
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
- Anais Nin
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Donna Roberts
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus
"A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more."
- Unknown
"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."
- by John Leonard
"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."
- Bernard Meltzer
"Friendship is the golden ribbon that ties the world together."
- John Evelyn
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies."
- Aristotle
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
- Henry Ford
"In a friend you find a second self."
- Isabelle Norton
"Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light."
- Helen Keller
You may add any effects you wish, as long as you feel that they enhance your photo rather than detracting from it (try to avoid too many points of focus, as the editing you have worked so hard on will be less effective if the eye can't decide where to focus). When you are finished, save it as "lastname, friendship" and submit it to the drop box.
Once again, I can't wait to see what you come up with!
Some examples of my own friendship edits:
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