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Graphic Communications (Wax Thermal) CPU Objectives

10-Activity - ID #997
15-Activity - ID #1001

10-Activity

Activity 1

1-1. Recognize when communication has, and hasn’t, occurred.

1-2. Discover the various forms of communication.

1-3. Identify the five forms of communication.

1-4. Define the communication process.

1-5. Identify feedback.

1-6. Consider a situation you have experienced involving unsuccessful communication.

Activity 2

2-1. Identify the components of graphic communications and their effect.

2-2. Discover during what time period we first know of graphic communication occurring.

2-3. Recognize the importance of graphics throughout history.

2-4. Define graphic communications.

2-5. Create, modify, and save a rectangle drawn in CorelDRAW.

2-6. Compare graphic communication in the Middle Ages to graphic communication today.

Activity 3

3-1. Recognize the first uses of computer graphics.

3-2. Identify characteristics of the oscilloscope.

3-3. Discover how technical drawings used to be printed.

3-4. Create and modify circles and ellipses.

3-5. Open the file that was saved during Activity 2 and make additions to it.

3-6. Begin developing non-text-based multinational signs.

3-7. Describe your experience so far with CorelDRAW.

Activity 4

4-1. Identify the computer platform on which most CADD work was done between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s.

4-2. Discover the company that first produced a computer with a processor powerful enough to run micro-based CADD programs.

4-3. Recognize the first simple computer game that used graphics.

4-4. Understand the difference between a graphic drawn with a pixel-based drawing program and a graphic drawn with a vector-based drawing program.

4-5. Apply various fills to objects within the certificate file.

4-6. Reflect on your experience creating different multinational signs.

Activity 5

5-1 Identify the widespread use of layout and design.

5-2. Recognize the difference between formal and informal balance.

5-3. Add text to the certificate.

5-4. Locate advertisements that use descriptive fonts to help sell products or services.

5-5. Examine the use of formal and informal balance in magazine ads.

Activity 6

6-1. Identify the characteristics of proportion.

6-2. Recognize contrast.

6-3. Define and contrast proportion, rhythm, unity, and logo.

6-4. Continue adding text, this time with a shadow effect, to the certificate file.

6-5. Develop a fund-raiser poster.

6-6. Explain the design principles used in your fund-raiser poster.

Activity 7

7-1. Discover how to use the CorelDRAW to locate and open images.

7-2. Use CorelDRAW to complete one of the following:

  1. Develop a new advertisement
  2. Reproduce the Fund-raiser Poster Worksheet
  3. Reproduce parts of the Multinational Sign Worksheet

7-3. Describe the advertisement you developed.

Activity 8

8-1. Continue using CorelDRAW to develop a new advertisement, reproduce the Fund-raiser Poster Worksheet, or reproduce parts of the Multinational Sign Worksheet.

8-2. Discuss the parts of CorelDRAW you found most difficult and why.

Activity 9

9-1. Prepare the graphic for printing.

9-2. Print the graphic.

9-3. Press the graphic onto a product.

9-4. Describe the printing and pressing process.

Activity 10

10-1. Select appropriate vocabulary terms based on the definitions provided.

10-2.Test your comprehension of concepts gained during this course.

10-3. State and explain your opinion of the Graphic Communications CPU.


15-Activity

Activity 1

1-1. Recognize when communication has, and hasn’t, occurred.

1-2. Discover the various forms of communication.

1-3. Identify the five forms of communication.

1-4. Define the communication process.

1-5. Identify feedback.

1-6. Consider a situation you have experienced involving unsuccessful communication.

Activity 2

2-1. Identify the components of graphic communications and their effect.

2-2. Discover during what time period we first know of graphic communication occurring.

2-3. Recognize the importance of graphics throughout history.

2-4. Define graphic communications.

2-5. Create, modify, and save a rectangle drawn in CorelDRAW.

2-6. Compare graphic communication in the Middle Ages to graphic communication today.

Activity 3

3-1. Recognize the first uses of computer graphics.

3-2. Identify characteristics of the oscilloscope.

3-3. Discover how technical drawings used to be printed.

3-4. Create and modify circles and ellipses.

3-5. Open the file that was saved during Activity 2 and make additions to it.

3-6. Begin developing non-text-based multinational signs.

3-7. Describe your experience so far with CorelDRAW.

Activity 4

4-1. Identify the computer platform on which most CADD work was done between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s.

4-2. Discover the company that first produced a computer with a processor powerful enough to run micro-based CADD programs.

4-3. Recognize the first simple computer game that used graphics.

4-4. Understand the difference between a graphic drawn with a pixel-based drawing program and a graphic drawn with a vector-based drawing program.

4-5. Apply various fills to objects within the certificate file.

4-6. Reflect on your experience creating different multinational signs.

Activity 5

5-1 Identify the widespread use of layout and design.

5-2. Recognize the difference between formal and informal balance.

5-3. Add text to the certificate.

5-4. Locate advertisements that use descriptive fonts to help sell products or services.

5-5. Examine the use of formal and informal balance in magazine ads.

Activity 6

6-1. Identify the characteristics of proportion.

6-2. Recognize contrast.

6-3. Define and contrast proportion, rhythm, unity, and logo.

6-4. Continue adding text, this time with a shadow effect, to the certificate file.

6-5. Develop a fund-raiser poster.

6-6. Explain the design principles used in your fund-raiser poster.

Activity 7

7-1. Discover how to use the CorelDRAW to locate and open images.

7-2. Use CorelDRAW to complete one of the following:

  1. Develop a new advertisement
  2. Reproduce the Fund-raiser Poster Worksheet
  3. Reproduce parts of the Multinational Sign Worksheet

7-3. Describe the advertisement you developed.

Activity 8

8-1. Continue using CorelDRAW to develop a new advertisement, reproduce the Fund-raiser Poster Worksheet, or reproduce parts of the Multinational Sign Worksheet.

8-2. Discuss the parts of CorelDRAW you found most difficult and why.

Activity 9

9-1. Prepare the graphic for printing.

9-2. Print the graphic.

9-3. Press the graphic onto a product.

9-4. Describe the printing and pressing process.

Activity 10

10-1. Create a pizza advertisement for a newspaper.

10-2. Begin working in the Challenge Section.

In Activity 11 through Activity 15, students will continue to work on challenges.

Activity 15

15-1. Select appropriate vocabulary terms based on the definitions provided.

15-2.Test your comprehension of concepts gained during this course.

15-3. State and explain your opinion of the Graphic Communications CPU.

The objectives for the challenges in this CPU include:

Challenge 1

The student will conduct research on a career of the student's choice in the graphic communications field. The student will share the findings in a presentation.

Challenge 2

The student will design a business card using CorelDRAW.

Challenge 3

The student will create a full page magazine advertisement for an original product using CorelDRAW.

Challenge 4

The student will take an existing product and develop three different advertisements for three different markets. (Example: a product selling to children/teens, to thirty-somethings, and to senior citizens.)

Challenge 5

The student will submit a bid for a graphics job to a university to promote one of their athletic program's big events.


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