Your Personal Logo

In class we watched a presentation about logos.  The logos were mostly for companies, but all told a story.
Think of what your personal logo would be.  Your logo should tell a story, bring about qualities that you value and be unique.
Create your logo on Inkscape.  It should have no more than 3 words and be created entirely from YOU (do not copy and paste images).
Use the tools from Inkscape that we learned in class to create you design.

Typing Friday

Log onto the typing website.  Your username is your first and last last name.  Your password is your student ID.

http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/

Wednesday-Inkscape tutorial

You will spend most of today's period working on the design of your Inkscape creation.  Mr. Johansson will present a brief tutorial that covers:

• Using gradient
• Editing paths by nodes
• Coping images using the spray tool

Tuesday-Inkscape Tutorial

You will spend most of today's period working on your Inkscape creations.  At the start of the period Mr. Johansson will give a tutorial on how to use several of Inkscape's features including:

• changing font and size of text
• using the Fill and Stroke tool to change an objects shading and boarders
• putting text on a path

Poetry Project

April is National Poetry Month!
In honor of this month you will find a poem that you like and illustrate it using Inkscape.


1) Spend the first 10-15 minutes of the class period surfing the following poetry sites and reading some of the poems.  Try finding a few poems that you like.

• Funny poems written by students:

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/funny/funny-children-poems.asp

• Poems by Langston Hughes:

http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/poems/

• Top 500 poets:

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/t/l.asp?a=0&l=Top500&p=1

• Chilrdren's Poetry Archive

http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/poemsHome.do

2) Select one of the poems that you found.  Copy and paste your poem and its author to a new Inkscape document or Word document and save it to your Y drive.

3) Illustrate the poem using Inkscape. Be sure to select a different font and use the tools that we learned about this quarter to illustrate your poem.

Typing Friday

Good morning!  Today you will have your first typing practice day.  Click on the link below and log in.  Your username is your first and last name, no spaces, no capitals.  Your password is your student id.

http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/

Google Zeitgeist

All information that is created and uses a computer is available to other people.  A practice called 'data farming' gathers your information in order to sell it to companies who want to sell you their products.
Google is the #1 used search engine used around the world.
Google Zeitgeist is a part of Google that lets you see what the most popular searches are.  Click on the link below and answer a few questions about searches made in 2011.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHVfRTNkcFlmVDVSTTBkdmJ4NHhCX0E6MQ#gid=0