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Unit 2:
My 7th grade Computer Applications students are currently learning about visual media. As these students become adults, communicating through visual media will be at least as, if not more, important that communicating through text. As part of our visual media unit, students are learning about Infographics and creating their own.

Materials for this unit are available at our class website: stonebank7.pbworks.com. Using the navigation at the right, click on __Semester 2 > Visual Media > Infographics__.

Unit Plan:

Student Sample: Exceeds Expectations This student did an excellent job of presenting her information graphically. The sports images are larger depending on the number of worldwide fans, she selected an intriguing title, the infographic has strong eye-appeal and she included more than five facts and cited her sources. I was very impressed with this project.

Student Sample: Meets Expectations This student met expectations according to the rubric for this project. The graphic is relevant, she has at least 5 facts about the subject, It is simple and well-organized so as to be appealing to look at, there are no spelling or grammar mistakes, she's listed her sources and the title is attention-grabbing. To make it really impressive, the student could have added more design, used an image of an athlete, or included more facts & details.

Student Sample: Below Expectations This student included a great deal of information on her Infographic, but the images support a list of numbers rather than the information being presented in graphic form. Simply put, this is not a visual representation of data; it's not an infographic.

Students hard at work:

Unit 1:
In Computer Applications class, 6th grade students imagined their own business and created a plan for making that business successful. They then used technologies including a Print Shop program, Microsoft PowerPoint, Glogster, iMovie, Flip cameras and Animoto to create items related to their business.

Unit Plan:

Class Website: http://stonebank6.pbworks.com (Navigation menu at right, Business Unit materials located in 1st Semester > Business Project)

Student Sample: Exceeds Expectations (Culminating Project - Commercial) media type="file" key="animoto_video.mp4" width="300" height="300"

Student Sample: Meets Expectations (Culminating Project - Commercial) media type="file" key="animoto_video 2.mp4" width="300" height="300"

Student Sample: Below Expectations (Culminating Project - Commercial) The only samples I have of commercials that were below expectations are videos featuring the students and I would prefer not to put that on the internet, so if you'd like to see this example, please contact me directly. The commercials that did not meet my expectations needed more editing, featured some shaky camera work, and included students who made some poor decisions with regard to acting professionally for their commercial.