The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
This collection of projects can be considered in progress. Many of these projects will be impossible without the software being approved by the district IT staff.
Expect some or all of the following improvements in the following weeks:
- Tutorials
- Examples
- More specific instructions
Portfolio Project
| Each portfolio will have three parts |
Each completed portfolio has a minimum of one each of the following elements: visual, audio, text. In addition, the portfolio must contain a completed self-evaluation. Aside from the suggested portfolio projects below, feel free to propose an alternate project – though such a project will likely require a visual, audio and text component.
Note: certain projects listed below may wave one or more of these elements at the teachers discretion.
| Visual 👁 |
A tangible digital product
- Video
- Poster
- PowerPoint
- Animation
| Audio & Spoken 👂 |
- Digital audio (podcast, audio drama, song, sound effects, voice over)
- Oral presentation
- Interview
| Written ✎ |
- Notes
- Essay
- Script
- Bibliography
| Suggested projects |
| Podcast, Audio Drama |
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a digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.
👁 Logo (.png)
👂 Audio & project file (.mp3)
✎ Script/Show notes (.docx)
Requirements
- Wired headphones
- Audacity (software)
Examples
Further Instruction
- Audio quality must be good to great
- Include show notes or a script
| Video or Film |
Create a video, skit, or documentary film.
👁 Video & project file (.mp4)
👂 project file
✎ Script or Storyboard (.docx)
Requirements
- Wired headphones
- Video camera (ie. Phone?)
- Openshot (software)
Examples
Further Instruction
- Audio quality must be good to great
- Video quality must be good to great
| Design a 3D model |
Create a 3D model of a trophy, a building, or a device.
👁 Project file(s) or model (.stl)
👂 Interview
✎ Complete lessons (tinkercad), permission form (tinkercad, sketchup), complete the doughnut tutorial (blender), description of house (sketchup).
Requirements
- Wired headphones (for lessons/tutorials)
- Video camera (ie. Phone?)
- Blender (software)
- Tinkercad (online)
- Sketchup (online)
Examples
Further Instruction
- For the Blender tutorial, you must finish Part 1 & 2
- For Sketchup, design a house
- 100-word write about the house, the story behind the house, or a description of what you learned
- For Tinkercad complete the following tutorials:
- Twist Earrings
- Spin Circuit Assembly
- Glow Circuit Assembly
- Move Circuit Assembly
- Learning the Moves
- Camera Controls
| Pixel Art Animation |
👁 Animation (.gif or .apng)
👂 Interview
✎ Description of character/scene or short story (.docx)
Requirements
- GIMP
Examples
Note from the artist, “I usually draw on 150×150 to cover all the extra movements from chars and fx but also lots of blank space is left. The spinning could have been a lot better! The ankle looks stuck on floor and the body spin is kind of an “eye trick” instead of a nice clean rotation.”
Further Instruction
- Your animation should be 2.5 seconds or 60 frames in length.
- It should feature a character or a scene that tells a story!
| Design a Website |
Create a “draft” website with powerful CMS WordPress.
👁 local/onedrive ‘website’
👂 Interview/tour
✎ local/onedrive ‘website’ content
Requirements
Examples
Further Instruction
- Talk to Mr. Little to receive a subdomain, username & password. yoursite.mrlittle.xyz. (No personally identifiable information allowed!)
| Create a Song |
👁 Advertisement / “album” cover
👂 Song & project file (.mp3)
✎ Lyrics, Description of Song
Requirements
- LMMS (software)
Examples
Further Instruction
| Create a Zine, Pen and Paper Game |
Use desktop publishing software to design a Zine, magazine-style article, D&D oneshot or paper and pencil game.
👁 Formatted zine, illustrations & project file (.pdf)
👂 Interview/tour
✎ Zine articles (.pdf)
Requirements
- Scribus
(Optionally)
- GIMP
- Inkscape
Examples
Here’s a sample of a 2-page spread made in scribus – the author had this to say,
“Playing with overlapping filters on Gimp was fun. Trying to deal with fonts and text on Scribus…not so much. And Inkscape has decided that it wants to go insane and speed uncontrollably in either direction when I try to change font sizing/spacing…so I don’t know what’s up with that.
But despite all of that, finished it off.”
Further Instruction
| Alternate projects |
| Programming Courses |
👁 Complete challenge projects.
👂 Interview
✎ Complete coding problems.
Requirements
- Khan Academy Permission Form
- Khan Academy login (provided by Mr. Little)
Examples
Further Instruction
| Make and Program Game(s) |
Explore powerful game-making software Unity while learning c#
👁 Complete project files from Unity Learn: Unity Essentials & Junior Programmer
👂 Interview/tour
✎ Complete project files from Unity Learn: Unity Essentials & Junior Programmer