US 18734 - Practice test

This week you need to practice for your US 18734 test which will be carried out in week 9. The test will be over 3 lessons and be completed in silent conditions and is worth 2 credits.

The theme for your prctice test is to create a home page for a cafe, have a look at the templates available and then decide on the type of cafe you would like to design the home page for. For example a cafe in a museum, a cafe in a cinema, a cafe for families or perhaps a cafe that has live music...

You have 4 tasks

1) Create a "practice test" folder in your "web design 18734" folder and save your chosen template from: I:computing\Y10\Term3\18734-web design\18734 web templates - you will need to copy the style sheet and the index page to your H drive.

2) Edit the template to create the home page for your cafe. you MUST add an image and change the text.

3) Complete the word document to describe the purpose and target audience for your website. Save the docuement "cover sheet" into your practice test folder. You need to write a paragraph for question three and explain why you have chosen particular fonts, colours, layout, content, images in relation to your target audience - you must give reasons for all of your choices.

4) Concept drawing: your concpet drawing MUST look exactly like your home page - use a ruler!
you need to label:

• fonts: style, size and colour
• Pictures
• colour
• Background
• text / content
• navigation
• anything you can't see

Remember this is the time to ask questions, next week you will be given a differne theme and different templates to use.

Website Design

Welcome to term 3 and your new project. You will be critically evaluating website design, learning basic HTML, using Dreamweaver to create your own 3 page website and learning some CSS.

Today's task
Using what you learnt last lesson (you can use your notes) create a basic web page called "My first website" using notepad.

Click this link http://www.w3schools.com/html/DEFAULT.asp which will help you with further HTML tags and give you ideas for adding to your web page.


Remember to save your document as index.html

Completing the Interactive Project

Brief
Check it, improve it, print it and add to clear file

Plan (flow chart)
Check it, improve it

Testing (peer assessment)
Check it, improve it, print it and add to clear file
you should also add any testing that you carried out to youru visual diary as you were creating your solution.

Evaluation (interactive project self review)
Check it, improve it, print it and add to clear file

Complete your solution (animation, game, interactive presetnation)
Make any changes suggested in the testing or evaluation
If you have made a game in scratch you should log on to the scratch website and upload your project.

Testing

As you are creating your animation, game or presentation you will be testing it as you go. Make sure that you keep a log of what you are testing and any changes to the design or layout you are having to make.

• Say what you have tested
• What was the outcome
• Any changes to the design and why

Deadline!

You will need to hand in your visual diaries and briefs on Tuesday 2nd June

Visual diary

In your visual diary you should have a detailed flowchart to show the layout and design of your solution. You should anotate the colours, effects, animation, interactivity etc. You should also draw any characters or backgrounds that will be a part of your design.

Brief

Complete the template found: I:\Computing\Y10\Term 2\Programming Project. Make sure that you describe each section fully. check your spelling and grammar before printing and putting it in your clear file.

Year 10 interactive project

Theme park
Deadline: Week 10 term 2

Outcome: Create an interactive game, 3D world or presentation
Brief: You must choose one of the options below and create an interactive game, animation or presentation based on a theme park. The target audience for your solution is teenagers, so your solution must appeal to them and be fun, interesting and interactive.

Tasks:

1. Plan your solution: Complete your brief (use the teamplate) and a storyboard (this must be annotated to show, colour, interactivity and any effects to be used). All planning must be completed before creating your solution.
2. Create your solution
3. Test your solution (you will need to create testing criteria)
4. Evaluate your solution
5. Make improvements to your solution
   

Option 1
Using PowerPoint create an interactive presentation to show different areas of the theme park, activities and the theme park rides. This interactive presentation will be used by visitors of the theme park. Your presentation should have at least 5 slides of information. A good start may be to have a map of the theme park with hotspots and links to other pages.

Extension: create an animation in Flash of a roller coaster to add to your presentation.

Option 2
Using Scratch, Alice or Flash create a game based or 3D world animation based on a theme park ride. If you choose to create a game it should have at least 3 levels.

Possible characteristics to add to your game:

• Interactive, changes based on players’ decisions. You have to participate.
• Has resource(s) to manage (time, lives, experience points, etc.).
• Has token(s) you manipulate directly to manage resources
• Has opposition (obstacles or opposing players)
• Has goal(s) and conditions for victory
• Create your own variable
• Multi-player

Grading criteria

Achieved

• Has created a storyboard
• Created a solution that has an interactive function
• Has evidence of testing the solution
• Has evaluated solution
  

Merit

• Has created a storyboard that could be used by someone else to create the solution
• Created a solution that has at least three interactive functions
• Has used criteria to test solution
• Has a detailed evolution of solution
  

Excellent

• Has a well developed and detailed storyboard
• Created a multi-functional interactive solution
• Has well thought out criteria which has been used to test solution
• Has made improvements to solution based on testing results
• Has evaluated solution in terms of target audience, brief and usability

Alice

We are now going to learn how to create worlds and learn to program using 3D grapics using software called Alice.

Your first task is to open tutorial 1: Ice Skater world
Follow the instructions to find out how to use the software...what can you get your ice skater to do?