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"A Display of Skill" For you final project you must: 1. Find and highlight your favourite 5 projects from the year and outline, why you liked the project, what you learned doing the project and how you could do the project better next time. 2. Create two more items that display your skills that you have acquired over the year. Keep in mind this needs to be your best work and should take you approximately the two weeks that you have left in the course.
 * Final Project**

Assignment #36 Create one of the following: 1. A PowerPoint about your summer plans 2. A Word document about the type of extra curricular activities you would like to see the school put on

Assignment #35 Create one of the following: 1. A PowerPoint/Word Document about how great of a movie Avatar is (or how you don't like movies these days) (300 words or 7 slides) 2. A Photoshop about surfing

Assignment #34 Create one of the following: 1. A photoshop of your school appropriate dream summer vacation. 2. A Word Document about how much better summer is than Winter

Assignment #33 Create one of the following: 1. A Word document explaining: why your favourite hobby is your favourite. (400 words) 2. A PowerPoint of an event that has happened in the last couple of days

Assignment #32 1. Create a word document explaining what kind of school appropriate fun day that you would like the school to run. Or do you think that the school should try to have fun afternoons/days in the future? (400 words) 2. Create a PowerPoint about jet packs or something equally awesome. (10-12 slides)

Assignment #31 Create one of the following: 1. A PowerPoint about baseball/sports being the best or worst 2. A Word Document/PowerPoint on the new video game consoles coming out 3. A Photoshop of a back flip to end all back flips.

Assignment #30 In a Word Document explain one of the following: 1. Explain why you think having Facebook blocked at school is a good or bad thing. (300 words) 2. Explain why you think teenagers are leaving Facebook more and more (300 words) 3. Tell me why you are or are not on Facebook. (300 words)

Assignment #29 1. A photoshop of Macho Man taking on badly drawn stick figures (or the Apocalypse) 2. A word document explaining what you would do if you believed in the End of the World on May 21st and it didn't happen (350 words) 3. A word document talking about how important trying is (350 words)

Assignment #28 Make one of the following documents: 1. A PowerPoint about the goodness or badness of Electronic Music (should include some Photoshopped Pictures as well) 10 slides 2. A Word Document about a plot summary of a Video you would like to make 3. Write about how its a bad idea to upset the internet also how we don't actually have any privacy.

Assignment #27 Create a Photoshop of: 1. A celebrity in a video game setting 2. A Shakespearian play gone wrong 3. Summer Fun Times

Assignment #26 Create a Power point or Word Document about you in the year 2030 Explain what you are doing, what is the same, what is different (10 slides or 350 words)

Assignment #25 Create a Magazine Cover for a (school appropriate) magazine for a magazine about: - You - Your favourite hobby - Something that you are interested in that doesn't necessarily have you on the cover You should work in between Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to do this.

Assignment #24 Create one of the following: 1. A PowerPoint displaying your favourite technology objects. You must explain why they are your favourites and what they do. 2. A Word document explaining why you think high school students are so drawn to having sound systems that are too bass-y. 3. A Photoshop of the most ridiculous car stereo that you can imagine.

Assignment #23 Create one of the following: 1. A photoshop of the most awkward school appropriate situation you can think of. 2. A story about Billy Goats 3. A PowerPoint about a current event or an event that you wish would have happened.

Assignment #22 IP Freestyle: Create one of the following: 1. A Photoshop of what you see in your head when you think about yourself. 2. A Word Document explaining: how you can best voice your opinions respectfully. (350 words) 3. A PowerPoint of what the school would look like with out any adult supervision. (You should Photoshop some pictures for that.) (5-10 slides depending on the amount of Photoshoping.)

Assignment #21 IP Freestyle Assignment: Make one of the following documents: 1. PowerPoint about the debate between Cats and Dogs 2. A Word Document explaining whether you think the drinking age should be lowered or kept the same (350 words) 3. A Word Document about why smoking is a ridiculous habit to get into. (350

Assignment #20 Photoshop Challenge: Create a Photoshop of the most epic high five that you can imagine. This Photoshop file should have at least 10 separate layers.

Assignment #19 Current Event: Find a story that you will create 10 slide PowerPoint about (including the title page) along with where you found out about the story (two to three sources). You need to also list why you chose the story and how that effects you. There should also be pictures on most of the slides.

Assignment #18 Cell Phones and you: Write about one of the following: - What cell phone that you would choose if you could choose any phone and why? - How cell phones are changing how people interact? - What you think cell phone etiquette should be for those in class? Or around in stores? Or anywhere? This should be around 400 words long.

Assignment #17 Creating an event (do the following): - In Photoshop/Publisher create a poster for an event that is happening (real or fictional) (example: Birthday Party/Concert) - Create a radio advertisement about the event to invite people

Assignment #16 Create a PowerPoint Story book where you create a children's story which is illustrated using images that you have changed/made. (10 slides)

Group Project: You will be designing a school, hiring a staff, and figuring out the class offerings for your ideal school. You must: - Have a lay out/Blueprint of the school drawn in AutoCAD, Illustrator, Paint - Create a list of classes that you will offer in addition to the Science/Math/English/History classes and write course descriptions - Create a list of Teachers (Historical or current) that will staff your school. You will make this into a PowerPoint advertising your staff to parents - Photoshop the looks of 4 classrooms, your gym and 1 computer lab. - Create a logo for your school and a team name - Create a letter to Parents about your new school and why it is the best school they could send their kids to. For the 20s - You also need to explain how you think the staff would interact and how that would effect the student's progress through the year. Assignment #16 Create a memo where you are the boss and are informing your staff about this months social event. Make sure you include all parts. Hand outs Assignment #15 Download and complete one of the following activities God's and Goddesses or Hockey 2011-12 Assignment #14 Download the Following Access assignment this is your first Access Activity

Assignment #13 In Microsoft Publisher create a poster about yourself/your hobbies and things you love. If you have time at the end of class you need to type up a short couple of paragraphs about why you chose the things you did.

Assignment #12 Info Pro Freestyle: Create one of the following:

1. PowerPoint on "Your Ideal Snow Day!" 2. A Photoshop image of a snowmobile flying through space with comets and fire around it. 3. A research project on a current event in technology (300 words)

Assignment #11 Start of a Business For the next while we will be working on a business plan/documents to go with them. Today you need to decide what type of business you would want to run and create a logo for that business.

Assignment #10 Photoshop Challenge I would like you to create an image of a bear fighting a shark in a boxing ring. The fight should be watched on one side by a bunch of woodland creatures and on the other side a few schools of fish.

Assignment #9 Applications of Excel IP10 students go to: [] and find 5 charts of information that can be converted into charts/graphs. You need to use at least 3 graphs and explain why you used each graph type.

IP20 students: Add 3 more projects and work out how to use "If/Then" statements so that if you go into the negatives in terms of inventory the number will be highlighted in red.

Assignment #8 Excel Sheets and you: IP10 Students: Research what Excel is, why its useful, alternative programs, who uses it. Also describe the different parts of a spreadsheet. Write it up in 8 PowerPoint Slides with pictures. IP20 Students: You will be putting together a spreadsheet which does inventory for a store. You need to create a business, 4 products and the prices for each. You will need to make a cash register which changes the numbers on the inventory and calculates taxes and totals.

Assignment #7 Valentine's Edition Do one of the following: 1. A research project about the origins of Valentine's Day (350 words) 2. A Photoshop picture/collage about love and your feelings towards it 3. A PowerPoint about Lions

Assignment #6 Face Swap: You need to find 3 different face swaps to perform. Use Photoshop and the various smudge and blur tools to make your master pieces.

Assignment #5 Bad celebrity vacation photo: You need to find a background and 4 other pictures to combine to make a bad vacation photo. You will be marked on how well you are able to remove the background on the celebrity pictures. To resize the images you need to go to Edit and then choose Free Transform. Remember that using a Lasso allows you to select the parts of the Photo you want to get rid of.

Assignment #4 A PowerPoint about PowerPoint Create a 10 slide PowerPoint about when you use PowerPoint and why it is useful. This should include pictures and transitions/animations. You might also want to talk about how PowerPoint can be abused/misused by people.

Assignment #3 IP Freestyle Assignment: Make one of the following documents: 1. A PowerPoint about the shortened NHL Season (~10 Slides) 2. A Word Document about cell phone usage and how it is changing how we behave. (300 words) 3. A Word Document about you not liking sports/football/hockey (300 words) 4. Write a story (could be turned into a childrens book style with Powerpoint/Publisher).

Assignment #2 Research 3 jobs dealing with Computers and Computer related things. You should find out: - What they do - How much you could expect to make doing that job - Why you would and would not want that job.

This should be put into a Word Document(3 - 4 paragraphs with complete sentences) or a PowerPoint (3 slides per job).

Assignment 1: An Introduction On PowerPoint create a 7 slide introduction to yourself include: - hobbies - interests - what you are good at on computers - what you want to learn this semester.