Liana's+Showcase

= Liana's Showcase =

Unit Summary
The unit is about digital imaging and communicating with digital images. Students will be learning practical skills on using digital cameras and manipulating digital images using Photoshop Elements, whilst learning connected theory about image file formats, colour mode and resolution. They will also acquire knowledge on the basics of design elements and principles in order to communicate effectively. Students will undertake tutorials and build up a portfolio of their images. They will maintain a blog showcasing their images, reflecting on learnings and answering content questions related to the tutorials. Students will undergo self-montitoring of their progress using checklists. More open-ended unit questions will be answered through discussions between students on a class blog.

After the initial skills acquisition phase students will be creating a product (which will constitute the real-world project). The product will need to contain a message, answering the essential question "What's the message?" To make the product authentic and relevant it could be something like a cover for our school magazine, an open day poster with digital images, a school house poster, a slide show for end of year awards day etc. Students will write a design brief, identifying the audience and purpose of the product. They will draw up their timeline, work out their resources and solve the problem by working out the content and layout of their product, a suitable colour mode, resolution, format and so forth, selecting/applying the tools from the tutorials undertaken and finding help online as needed. Throughout the project phase students will continue to communicate through their blog, posting their progress and uploading their project documentation. During and at the end of the unit students will complete rubrics to assess the quality of their work and that of others.

Curriculum-Framing Questions
What is the message?
 * Essential Question:**

Where are digital images used? How is digital imaging different to traditional? What would the world be like without images? How can we communicate effectively with images? How can images be manipulated to persuade people? What is the purpose of the image? Who is the audience?
 * Unit Questions:**

What are the formats of digital images? What is a JPEG? What is a GIF? What is a PNG? What is a PSD? What is a TIFF? Which format is best for the web, for print? What is the difference between a vector image and a bitmap image? What is a pixel? What is image resolution? What is grayscale? What is RGB? How are digital images created? What are the design elements? What are the design principles? What are the copyright laws with digital images? How are layers used? What are filters? What is feathering? How do I use the Photoshop tools? What is Hue, Saturation, Light? How do I save an image for the web? How do I print an image?
 * Content questions:**

[|Unit Plan]

Summative Assessment [|Blog rubric.rtf] Student Sample: [|Individual Student blog] [|Class Discussion Blog]

Class wiki with resources

Please email me feedback using the feedback form: [| Showcase_Feedback_Form.doc]

Email address: kelly.liana.j@edumail.vic.gov.au

Thanks, Liana