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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.

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Friday, April 3, 2009

The Pearl, Indesign and Photoshop

The 8th grade Language Arts students used Indesign to create a storyboard for a chapter of the novel, The Pearl. The objective was to focus on making a succinct summary of the main points of the chapter. Once the students finished drafting their summaries, they created a six page Indesign document, where they added the text and graphics to complete the storyboard. Some students were able to use Photoshop to edit the graphics they used from the teacher-created graphics library. They learned that once they finished editing the graphic file, it was automatically updated in the Indesign document. This lesson took three class periods to finish.



The screenshot below shows the scorpion after the liquify filter was applied in Photoshop.