2. Welcome to the album !!!
This photo album is to
introduce the unit “Hands on
Animation” where you will be
learning about how you can
make a career by developing
skills in animation. Moreover,
you will get to make movies of
your own stories by using Paint
and PowerPoint. Finally, you
will learn about user interface
and get to make the game show
“Who wants to be a
millionaire?” which is an
example for user interface.
3. Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Technology Applications
126.32 – (c).1 - Creativity and innovation
You will be expected to:
(A) investigate and explore various career opportunities within the
computer science field and report findings through various media
(where you will research on what you want to become in
future)
(B) create and publish interactive stories, games, and animations
(where you are making your own movies)
(C) create and publish interactive animations
(where you are making attractive presentations)
(G) design creative and effective user interfaces
(where you are making interactive program)
4. It is a Paper and Pencil assessment for writing short
answers to the following questions
What extra resources do you have to
complete your homework due to the
introduction of Computers?
Write 2 ways in which Computers have
made an impact on day to day operations in
the following: Hospital, Bursar’s office in a
School, and in one of your parent’s
office/business.
Explain how Computers contributed to an
advertisement that you have seen recently
on TV.
5. You draw a picture of a boy
or a girl in small size on the
first paper in a sticky note
pad and the same picture
needs to be drawn in 10
different sizes, increasing
gradually on every paper.
Finally you need to flip the
papers to see that the boy or
the girl is growing.
6. You would need to make a movie for
humpty-dumpty that the humpty-
dumpty claims on a wall through a
ladder, then walks on the wall, then
falls down from the edge.
You would also need to make a
movie for a clash between a car and
an animal
Both the above assessments would
need to be assessed both by the
students themselves and by their peers with the help of a given rubric
7. At the start of every learning goal, you will be writing
what you already know about it and what you want to
learn about it. The last column will be left to do at the
end of every learning goal to write what you have
learnt through the learning goal.
8. At the end of every lesson, you will writing what you
have learnt by the end of that lesson and how you have
used them in the task that you got to do.
9. Who wants to be a Millionaire? – Students make this
interactive game show with the help of the features
such as objects, animation, hyperlink and the other
tools of MS PowerPoint. They make this show for at
least 15 questions with price money for every question
and the help lines such as 50-50, phone a friend, and
audience vote.
10.
11. True True/False Item:
Graphical User Interface is user friendly and it does
not require us to remember commands.
False True/False Item:
Character User Interface is slow to run since it
occupies a lot of memory.
Short answer or fill-in-the-blank:
GUI stands for
____________________________________________
12. Multiple choice:
Which of the following stands for CUI?
a) Creative User Interface
b) Character User Interface
c) Current User Interface
d) None of the above
Essay item:
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of GUI and
CUI to suggest a suitable interface for your computer
lessons.