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Ngoc Nguyen, 8th grade
Henry Moss Middle School
ePublishing
Inspiration & Motivation
This ePublishing piece was catalyzed by my principal who asked me to make a motivating poster to display around our school for our students.
First, we had all of the teachers write on a post-it note a few words that would encourage and inspire our students. Each quote meant something important to the teacher. Next, I gathered all of the notes written by the teachers and started creating my piece on Canva.com.
I created the piece using a poster template. One by one, I picked a variety of shapes and inside them, I typed the quote along with the teacher who wrote it. Since I didn’t want the piece to appear too busy, I only used 2 fonts--Trocchi and Sunday. I used a pastel color scheme throughout the shapes in the poster.
After I typed in all of the quotes, I re-arranged the shapes to different locations and overlapped them until I was satisfied with how it all fitted together. I kept the background white for a simple look. Finally, to fill in the white spaces, I added the translucent lines and layered them as a finishing touch.
This was difficult to start and plan how the poster was going to look because there were so many quotes that needed to be put on the poster. I just had to start adding shapes and constantly moving them around and re-arranging the sizes and color to where I saw fit. Sometimes I had to overlap the translucent shapes on the top and add multiple quotes per shape.
Overall, I had a super fun time creating this project for the school. It was satisfying to see the final piece together at the end. The school printed several posters and they are hanging on the walls and classrooms of our school building!
Henry Moss Middle School
ePublishing
Inspiration & Motivation
This ePublishing piece was catalyzed by my principal who asked me to make a motivating poster to display around our school for our students.
First, we had all of the teachers write on a post-it note a few words that would encourage and inspire our students. Each quote meant something important to the teacher. Next, I gathered all of the notes written by the teachers and started creating my piece on Canva.com.
I created the piece using a poster template. One by one, I picked a variety of shapes and inside them, I typed the quote along with the teacher who wrote it. Since I didn’t want the piece to appear too busy, I only used 2 fonts--Trocchi and Sunday. I used a pastel color scheme throughout the shapes in the poster.
After I typed in all of the quotes, I re-arranged the shapes to different locations and overlapped them until I was satisfied with how it all fitted together. I kept the background white for a simple look. Finally, to fill in the white spaces, I added the translucent lines and layered them as a finishing touch.
This was difficult to start and plan how the poster was going to look because there were so many quotes that needed to be put on the poster. I just had to start adding shapes and constantly moving them around and re-arranging the sizes and color to where I saw fit. Sometimes I had to overlap the translucent shapes on the top and add multiple quotes per shape.
Overall, I had a super fun time creating this project for the school. It was satisfying to see the final piece together at the end. The school printed several posters and they are hanging on the walls and classrooms of our school building!
Ella Alic, Diana Alonso, Emme Chappell, Ngoc Nguyen, 8th grade
Henry Moss Middle School
ePublishing
Google Help Desk
Our project is called the Google Help Desk. We had a problem in our school where teachers and students weren’t familiar with Google Drive and would keep on asking our librarian for help throughout the day. We decided to fix this problem. Since the 4 of us were already very skilled with using Google Drive, we were asked to create a series of how to videos for our school and community.
We had to plan how we were going to teach other teachers and students to use Google Drive. We decided to incorporate this project into our reading class and had to manage who created each video. First, we had to figure out how we were going to film the videos on the Chromebooks. We researched different screencasting programs and finally found a Chrome Extension called Snag-it. We played around with the extension and taught other students in our class how to use it. We created a website on weebly.com for students and teachers to easily access the videos.
When we found the subject we wanted to the video to be about, we sent students to record in a quiet room. Then they shared the video with us, we embedded the code, and uploaded it to our website. At first, we had difficulty trying to embed the code but one student figured out you had to open it to a new window. We created a survey form on our website to receive feedback and recommendations of tutorials from internet users. We wanted to improve our project in any ways possible.
We took our project to the Teachmeet at WKU in October to present our project to teachers across Kentucky and Tennessee. We shared it as a session and we got several question regarding the extension we found and how to use it. We sent survey link on our website to all STLP coordinators in our county, and we have had nothing but positive feedback. Warren county’s technology office decided to send some people with questions to our website, and Murray State University asked us to link their youtube channel into our website.
While doing this project, we wanted to be sure that we were staying safe. So for the whole project we used our school e-mails that were approved by the district.
Visit our website here:
http://googlehelpdesk.weebly.com/
Henry Moss Middle School
ePublishing
Google Help Desk
Our project is called the Google Help Desk. We had a problem in our school where teachers and students weren’t familiar with Google Drive and would keep on asking our librarian for help throughout the day. We decided to fix this problem. Since the 4 of us were already very skilled with using Google Drive, we were asked to create a series of how to videos for our school and community.
We had to plan how we were going to teach other teachers and students to use Google Drive. We decided to incorporate this project into our reading class and had to manage who created each video. First, we had to figure out how we were going to film the videos on the Chromebooks. We researched different screencasting programs and finally found a Chrome Extension called Snag-it. We played around with the extension and taught other students in our class how to use it. We created a website on weebly.com for students and teachers to easily access the videos.
When we found the subject we wanted to the video to be about, we sent students to record in a quiet room. Then they shared the video with us, we embedded the code, and uploaded it to our website. At first, we had difficulty trying to embed the code but one student figured out you had to open it to a new window. We created a survey form on our website to receive feedback and recommendations of tutorials from internet users. We wanted to improve our project in any ways possible.
We took our project to the Teachmeet at WKU in October to present our project to teachers across Kentucky and Tennessee. We shared it as a session and we got several question regarding the extension we found and how to use it. We sent survey link on our website to all STLP coordinators in our county, and we have had nothing but positive feedback. Warren county’s technology office decided to send some people with questions to our website, and Murray State University asked us to link their youtube channel into our website.
While doing this project, we wanted to be sure that we were staying safe. So for the whole project we used our school e-mails that were approved by the district.
Visit our website here:
http://googlehelpdesk.weebly.com/