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Third lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version) The focus of the lesson is to help students to learn how to trace images as well be exposed to the rectangle, pen and shape builder tools as they create a lorry. Once the lorry has been created in Tasks 1-5 the focus shifts to the more challenging use of the Pen Tool plus the curvature tool to help make paths easier! If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success. Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); starter activity; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo. Please note: lesson created using 2023 version. Whilst almost all tools will be the same, there may be a few that are not present in earlier versions.

Questions based on a fictitious economy airline brand that help students to revise the key concepts in visual identity. Keywords at the bottom of the slide with meanings to help scaffold learners Chilli icons to help show how challenging the task may be File is a Microsoft PowerPoint file so can be edited Resource also comes with editable answers in a Microsoft PowerPoint file

A little task for students to practice making an Interactive Multimedia Product using RocketCake Resource includes: Crib sheet (PDF), task sheet (PDF) and some text for the home slide (text file) Example RocketCake file and published website NB. I used this as a revision task as I had previously taught students how to use RocketCake previously. I also sell various RocketCake resources such as booklets, videos and lessons.

All of our RocketCake crosswords that complement our RocketCake lessons plus a crosswords booklet and solutions booklet Great as homework, starters, plenaries and assessement Includes student versions and solutions Please note due to the nature of the keywords it may not be possible to include all of the relevant keywords in a crossword and the solution is not shown in the preview!

Second lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version) The focus of the lesson is to help students to learn how to use the basic shape tools as well as create their own If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success. Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter activity; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo. Please note: lesson created using 2023 version. Whilst almost all tools will be the same, there may be a few that are not present in earlier versions.

First lesson in my series to help teach students how to use the basics of Adobe Illustrator (based on 2023 version) The main focus of the lesson is to help students get used the workspace and perform basic operations such as open, place, align, distribute, group, colour swatches, save, export. If you use the complete set of lessons this will help to re-practice the skills - needed for student success. Lesson includes Microsoft PowerPoint presentation (including embedded videos); video files; starter task, interactive self-marking one; plenary questions (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy); student tasks with files if required, teacher answer files and Microsoft Word task sheet which acts as a tick sheet and direction to help video. Image included for one task. Suitable for Creative iMedia R094 as students could use Adobe Illustrator alongside Photoshop to design a logo. Please note: lesson created using 2023 version. Whilst almost all tools will be the same, there may be a few that are not present in earlier versions.

The first sheet in my Adobe Audition series The PDF file is printable and helps students to understand the types of audio files that they could use in Adobe Audition then gives them some activities to complete to consolidate their knowledge.

Part of a mini-range of visual aids to help students learn the graphics package The sheet has a small set of activities on the second sheet PDF format so could be shared electronically or printed if you want students to tick the boxes Useful for Key Stage 3 (particuarly for differentiation) and/or Creative iMedia R082/R094 This sheet covers how to how add shapes, change their colour fill and use layer styles

Part of a mini-range of visual aids to help students learn the graphics package All sheets, except this one have a small set of activities on the second sheet PDF format so could be shared electronically or printed if you want students to tick the boxes Useful for Key Stage 3 (particuarly for differentiation) and/or Creative iMedia R082/R094 This sheet covers some of the important menu areas students should know

A quick overview of the skills needed for Creative iMedia R082 and how these could be achieved using Adobe Photoshop CC and Photopea We don’t claim to be experts, it is based on our experience of both! You may find useful if students are self-isolating and using a mixture of the software

Part of a mini-range of visual aids to help students learn the graphics package This resouce contains two sheets (two different ways of achieving the same goal) with a small set of activities on the second sheet AND also a video of how to do Way 1 (AVI format, but also will be free on YouTube) PDF format so could be shared electronically or printed if you want students to tick the boxes Useful for Key Stage 3 (particuarly for differentiation) and/or Creative iMedia R082/R094 This sheet covers making a picture fill for text (clipping mask) Updated 03/01/22 as video missed Alt from the shortcut on the screen (not in the audio)

Exercise to make an animation in Adobe Photoshop Final outcome is meant to emulate the TV show ‘Catchphrase’

Part of our Interactive Multimedia Product Practice Series being developed (which could be used at KS3 or to deliver Creative iMedia R087 practice) This lesson covers interpreting a Client Brief The lesson includes: Editable teacher presentation with embedded videos Editable lesson plan Student activities: Client Brief (for them to highlight) Client Brief (with more line spacing to allow for easier annotation) Client Brief Annotation (Electronic version to annotate with audio file to read out text) Scaffolded template for further expansion Plenary template Updated 10/10/22 - corrected YouTube link

Paper-based quiz to check knowledge of storyboards 39 questions with answers provided

A summary sheet which can be used when designing websites (particularly in RocketCake as it contains screenshots from Version 3.3) Please note: An image of this sheet is included in our RocketCake Lesson 3 - Templates & Forms so you do not need to purchase it unless you want the PDF file

Checklist for students to decide if their graphics work is suitable and they’ve been organised! Particularly useful when practising/preparing for an R082 assignment Useful when used with our Adobe PhotoShop CC tutorials, but the resource isn’t software specific