Year 7

Links for today's lesson - Christmas Week
Work through the following tasks saving you final images and work and recording them in your ePortfolio or on your blog.

• Decorate a tree
• http://www.teach-ict.com/seasonal/xmas/decorate/christmas_decorate.htm
• Web Quest
• http://www.teach-ict.com/seasonal/xmas/webquest/christmas_webquest.htm
• Glitter text for your blog
• http://www.pageplugins.com/generators/flash_glitter_text/

Custom Glitter Text

• Check out my blog at http://mschongkongictatstc.blogspot.com/

Year 8

Santa in a box
You are going to use the skills you have developed with "teacher in a box" using the internet, Xara, and Photoshop

• First download the following file, it is a net of a box -
  

  Box1_A3 page.xar
  

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  which looks like this:

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• Find a single Santa / Father Christmas / St Nicholas on the internet, using Photoshop remove any background and Save as a .png ( you may have to change the type of file that you have downloaded so that you can edit the image. Using the menu, go into the image - mode - and change to RGB)
• Find images of 4 Continents / Countries, and 4 different animals which represent those continents - edit them using Photoshop
• Open Xara and using the above file place your Continents, Santa's and animals on each of the faces of the box. Think about layout and quality.
• Add text to the top of the box for example: "Santa in a Box" " Merry Christmas" etc. something seasonal.
• Finally save the original file as a .xar on your own account and "export" as a jpeg and place in my jcW folder, you can also place it in the Google presentation below:
• HAPPY CHRISTMAS
• If you have completed all the above tasks - you should look at "elf yourself" obtain images of famous celebrities, yourself, and/or Santa and "Elf" the crowd (maximum 5 characters). http://www.elfyourself.com/
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  Send your own ElfYourself eCards