Today’s goals:

• Both classes: Check out my goal poster for our class (hanging on wall but just click here to see it)
• Period 2: finish the first Harvest of the Month graphic design challenge
• Period 3: create your own page on the class website

Today’s featured website:

• http://www.justinstagram.com/– You’re welcome and don’t forget to view the code!

Logging in reminder:

• HP computers only:
  Switch user, then MHS-WEBCLASS-S#\First Name. Example: MHS-WEBCLASS-S9\Jen

PERIOD 2- FINISH HARVEST OF THE MONTH GRAPHICS

 Today’s goal: Create an infographic, interactive image, or collage to promote September’s Harvest of the Month, tomatoes.

 Key skills you’ll practice: graphic/visual design, use of digital media creation tools

Harvest of the Month digital media promotion

• You’re going to create images for the school webpage and social media to promote the school lunch program’s Harvest of the month
• Important: only use photos from the sources below and make sure you’re creating something you are proud to have on the school site and in your portfolio!
• Where your stuff will go: school webpage, school/city Facebook, school/city Twitter
• Septembers’s Harvest of the Month is tomatoes. Today school nutritionist Retta Smith is visiting us and we’re going to sample tomatoes and visit the school garden.
• Working in teams of 2, choose 1 medium to work with today:
  • infographic (sign up for free account)
  • interactive image (sign up for free account)
  • collage (no account needed)
• Get images:
  • https://unsplash.com/
  • https://www.pexels.com/
  • Bing.com (do image search, then search for free to share and use)
• Tomato facts to potentially include:
  • Local tomatoes can be found at the Medford Farmers Market, which is every Thursday from 3-7 pm behind City Hall until mid-October.
  • Local tomatoes are being served in our school lunch on September 7, 14, and 29.
  • Where our tomatoes are from (name of local farm or company)
  • Info from the Harvest of the Month website
  • Popular recipes (title and maybe a link to a recipe)
  • Nutritional benefits (make sure to cite your source)
  • Details from Ms. Smith’s presentation

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: this infographic and this interactive image
  2. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Strong, obvious attempt to create an appealing visual theme
  5. Images chosen carefully to go along with visual theme and to be as visually appealing as possible
  6. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, and includes dates served, nutrition facts, and origin of the local produce.
  7. Text is easy to read
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  2. Images came from sources listed above
  3. Images somewhat appealing; evidence of some attempt made to create visual theme.
  4. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, but doesn’t include everything listed in the wildly successful model.
  5. Text is somewhat hard to read
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Incomplete graphic
  2. Little effort put into creating visual theme
  3. Images from sources other than those listed
  4. Minimal text that provides little information
  5. Text is hard to read

PERIOD 3- CREATE OWN PAGE ON CLASS WEBSITE

 Today’s goals: Continue learning WordPress, one of the most popular content management systems in the world AND start adding stuff to your page on the class website.

 Key skills you’ll practice: WordPress: logging in, editing a page, and adding text, images, and links

Getting started

• WordPress overview: I’ll show you the basics of how the page editor is set up and how you would add text, images, and links.
• Logging in:
  • Go to this link
  • User name is first name (as seen here), password is last name2016. Example: Goldsberry2016 and the first letter is capitalized.
  • Find your page: from the Dashboard, click Pages in the left menu, then type your first name in the white search box on the top left and hit enter. When you find your name, point your mouse to it and then click Edit below your name. You should now see your page editor.
  • Still need images? Try https://unsplash.com/, https://www.pexels.com/, or Bing.com (do image search, then search for free to share and use).

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: Andrew, Gina, Jamaal, Lincoln, Racquel
  2. Student includes 7-10 pieces of information
  3. Student includes at least 3 images
  4. Student includes 2 links or more
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Student includes 4-6 pieces of information
  2. Student includes at least 2 images
  3. Student includes at least 1 link
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Student includes 1-3 pieces of information
  2. Student includes 0-1 images
  3. Student doesn’t add any links