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Description This is day 20 of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design. Topics covered include typography, color, grids, formatting, spacing, measurements and modular design. Objectives Students will identify the four basic categories of type. Students …
Description This is day three of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design. Topics covered include typography, color, grids, formatting, spacing, measurements and modular design. Objectives Students will identify the four basic categories of type. Students …
Description This is day two of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design. Topics covered include typography, color, grids, formatting, spacing, measurements and modular design. Objectives Students will identify the four basic categories of type. Students …
Description This is day one of a four-week unit plan that helps students learn the basic terminology, functions and foundations of design. Topics covered include typography, color, grids, formatting, spacing, measurements and modular design. Objectives Students will identify the four basic categories of type. Students will …
Description This lesson will encourage photographers to move away from simple point-and-shoot, selfie-rich photography to making several critical decisions before taking each photo. Objectives Students will describe their thought process behind a selected photograph. Students will produce a series of images representing slightly different decisions …
Description Originally created for businesses, Videolicious is a free video production platform that allows the user to create one-minute videos solely from their mobile devices with still shots, video footage, and voice over. This lesson will give students practice not only with the app, but also …
Description When incorporating multimedia into your publications, the number one consideration should be, “What is the right medium through which to tell your story?” This lesson will take you through the process of story mapping, which will help students keep multimedia in mind throughout the publication …
Description Journalists should be meeting their audiences where they live, and for today’s students, that place is Snapchat. For this lesson, students will practice utilizing this social media tool for storytelling purposes and create an archive for their Snap Stories on their online news site. Objectives …
Description This lesson asks students to edit a sample beginning of a feature profile story. This task should draw attention to the biggest challenge students experience when writing profiles–they don’t develop an angle. Instead they create a laundry list of details that encompasses everything discussed in …