Digital Design Project Based

Digital Design

Project-Based Instruction

Name Standards Objective Description

Emerging Technology IDT-5 Students will: Students will research an emerging
Project Understand, Research an emerging technology and give a presentation on
communicate, and technology. the following:
Black History adapt to a digital world.
Magazine Cover Explain how the technology: a. Describe the technology and how it
Project -5.2 Describe trends in Works works
emerging, evolving, and It’s used to help businesses and b. Describe what need this technology is
future computer humans. fulfilling
technologies and their Propose safety concerns c. Describe how this technology can be
influence on IT practices. used to help businesses
Effectively complete the d. Describe how this technology can be
Emerging Technology project used to help humans
using PowerPoint or e. Describe the safety concerns of this
Presentation. technology from multiple points of view
f. Your thoughts on the life of the
IT-DD-7 Students will: technology (how long will it last- when
Create and edit images Research an African American will it become obsolete?)
and graphics. of their choice who has g. What is the cost of the technology?
contributed or made a major (Dollar amount, privacy, social cost,
7.1 Demonstrate impact to society. psychological, etc.)
appropriate image h. Include a “Works Cited” slide with
capturing techniques Select a proper and ethical your references for this project
and sources. image or graphic that is royalty Students will select an African American
free (free image) of their choice who has contributed or
7.4 Apply appropriate made a major impact to society. After,
image and graphic Edit the image they have selecting their person of choice,
editing techniques. selected using Adobe students take a series of steps to create
Photoshop. a magazine cover illustrating the person
7.5 Use graphic editing of their choice with interesting facts
software to create and Apply the edited image to the about that person.
edit images for magazine cover template using
publications and Microsoft Publisher.
presentations.
Create a magazine cover
illustrating their person of
choice.

1. Research an emerging technology and give a presentation on the following:
a. Describe the technology and how it works
b. Describe what need this technology is fulfilling
c. Describe how this technology can be used to help businesses
d. Describe how this technology can be used to help humans
e. Describe the safety concerns of this technology from multiple points of view
f. Your thoughts on the life of the technology (how long will it last- when will it become obsolete?)
g. What is the cost of the technology? (Dollar amount, privacy, social cost, psychological, etc.)
h. Include a “Works Cited” slide with your references for this project

2. Create a Presentation or PowerPoint presentation with the answers to the questions above and meets
the following criterion:
a. You will need to present your Presentation project or PowerPoint presentation the class.
b. Be prepared to answer questions
c. Provide appropriate labeling
d. Appropriate graphics
e. Be attractive
f. Has no grammatical/spelling errors.

Name: Selena Mendez

Category 10 8 6 4 2
Required Presentation All required All but 1 of the All but 2‐3 More than 3
Elements includes all elements are required elements are required
(a-h) required included on elements are included. elements are
elements as the included. missing from
10 well as Presentation. Few items of the
additional Some items of importance are Presentation.
Labels information. Almost all importance labeled and
All items of items of are clearly labels are Labels are too
10 importance are importance labeled and difficult to small to view
clearly labeled are clearly labels can be read. or
with labels labeled and read from at no important
that labels can be least 3 feet Few graphics items were
can be read read from at away. relate to the labeled.
from at least 3 least 3 feet topic.
feet away. away. Some graphics No graphics
Almost all are related to The relate to the
Graphics – All graphics are graphics are the topic and Presentation is topic.
related to the make it easier poorly
Relevance related to the topic and to understand. designed The
most make it and very Presentation is
topic and make easier to read The messy. distractingly
and Presentation is messy and
the understand. fairly There are 4 unattractive.
The attractive, but grammatical–
10 Presentation Presentation is a bit messy. mechanical There are
attractive in mistakes. more
easier terms of There are 2‐3 than 4
design, layout, grammatical– grammatical–
to read and and neatness. mechanical mechanical
mistakes. mistakes.
understand. There is 1
Attractiveness The grammatical–
mechanical
Presentation is mistake on
the
exceptionally Presentation.

8 attractive in

terms of

design, layout,

Grammar and neatness.
There are no

grammatical–

10 mechanical

mistakes on

the

Presentation.

Total Score 48/50 = 96



















BLACK HISTORY
MAGAZINE COVER PROJECT

Choose one famous African American, whether they are alive or dead, male or female. Create a magazine cover (front
and back) using Microsoft Office that is all about them. Apply appropriate image and graphic editing techniques using
Adobe. Both pages should be on one document only, use a page break to distinguish between the front cover (page 1)
and the back cover (page 2). Be sure to follow all the requirements listed below. Be creative and make the finished
product look as professional as possible. Save the finished project as: BHmag

 Requirement Points Points
Awarded
Possible

Layout; .5” margins (left, right, top, and bottom) 10

Page border 5

Appropriate magazine title depicting your person in 1-2 words (which will be the name 7
of your magazine)

Your persons’ name somewhere on the cover 5

At least 5 article teasers all about your person (tell me things that I might not know 10
about your person: their likes, hopes, dreams, etc)

Picture of your person is used as the background, appropriately sized. 7

Two other small pictures, appropriately sized, that gives more information about your 5
person.

AutoShapes (use text wrapping) to depict something special they did 5
(accomplishments, charity work, degree from college).

Issue date and price are conveniently located on publication 5

Barcode/UPC is used in convenient location 5

Shadow and line style changed 2

Bullets, WordArt, and Symbols (each one worth 3 points) 9

Grammar/spelling used correctly 5

Overall professional appearance 10

Variety of fonts, colors, and other formatting that match the overall theme 10

TOTAL: 100

Comments:

Name of Magazine:_________________________________________________
Student:___________________________________