Game Developers Club is up

Check out the games made by students this year who participated in the Game Developers Club:
http://singbeil.blogspot.ca/p/g.html

(I'm also working on a compilation video which I will upload to Youtube)

Movember Mustache

Its time to grow a movember mustache. For this project each person in your group must do the following:

1. Take a close-up picture of yourself
2. Find a good image of a mustache

3. Layer the mustache onto your picture

TUTORIAL:

Mini-Lesson: Cropping

How to crop images in Photoshop

Cropping is used to adjust your picture's framing and size. You can turn a very wide picture into a tall picture or use it to remove unwanted background details.

Please download the Techbyte which explains how to crop in Photoshop: TechByte_Cropping.pdf

You can use the following image of Totoro for practice or you can work with your own image:

Try to create 10 different variations using the same image as your starting point. 

Photoshop Project (2)

Old Fashioned Photo

In this project you need to take a picture and make it look old and damaged. Start by getting a costume and planning your shot, then, once you have the picture you want, edit it in Photoshop. The image needs to be in greyscale and it needs to look old and damaged. 

Aside from that, you can play around with the liquify tool and anything else you want to change the image. You can add in extra props by searching for "transparent" images from Google.

To learn the tricks you will need, you may use either of these photos in class:

or

Details of the different techniques are explained in a .pdf: TechByte_BlackAndWhite.pdf

You will have an opportunity to take your own photo later this week.

Due: October 30th

Photoshop Project (1)

Image Restoration

Restoring old images was an important skill even before Photoshop existed. There are companies that offer image restoration services and people trained to restore old paintings. With Photoshop it is possible to restore our own photographs.

Use the clone stamp tool, spot healing brush, and other techniques as you see fit to clean up the damage on this photograph:

Maintain the lighting and texture of the original image but remove any folds, creases, or stains

The Peanut Butter and Jelly Dilemma

The Peanut Butter and Jelly Dilemma

Watch the Video. Play the Game.

The Game:

After watching the story, students can extend their learning by playing Hungry Aliens! This flash game, created by Lanz Singbeil, puts players into the position of a deep space explorer suddenly confronted by a hord of hungry alians! But fear not! Because just like Zac, this explorer is armed with a pack stuffed with sandwiches! Each alien is asking for a certain number of sandwiches that will make them full. Your students will practice grouping by 2's, 3's, and 4's and matching them with the correct total. 

This game encourages primary age students to begin thinking in terms of multiplying numbers rather than just adding them together. This game can be used to help solidify understanding of basic multiplication concepts or just as a fun extra activity.

http://www.sfu.ca/~lws2/PDP/HungryAliensGame/

The Video:

When asked to design and create a story that was not only brilliant but also dealt with the BC Curriculum PLOs for Mathematics, Jade Seto, Lanz Singbeil and Sarah Seller huddled together and decided to create a story that would introduce multiplication up to 2 x 5. In the classroom, stories can provide a clear introduction to a new concept and allows for cross-curricular connections. According to the BC Ministry of Education, in grade 3, students are required to “demonstrate an understanding of multiplication to 5 x 5 by representing and explaining multiplication using equal groupings and arrays.” In our story, which works with the two times tables, students can visually see how we use equal groupings to solve the dilemma involving the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches. Students can also visually see how they can relate multiplication to repeated addition.

Working collaboratively, the trio decided to use Jade’s keen artistic ability, Lanz’s technical prowess and Sarah’s love of word play to design the book.

PLOs:

A11 demonstrate an understanding of multiplication to 5 × 5 by representing and explaining multiplication using equal grouping and arrays creating and solving problems in context that involve multiplication modelling multiplication using concrete and visual representations, and recording the process symbolically relating multiplication to repeated addition relating multiplication to division [C, CN, PS, R]

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