InDesign Projects

My Multimedia 1 students will be learning the program InDesign next quarter. This is a program that is used in the newspapers and magazine industries for layout design (I also use it in Yearbook). I was wondering if any of the core subject teachers have an idea of we could design a project together?

Summary of meeting 12/8

Finals- we discussed support that will be available to our academy kids as they prepare for finals. It was determined that Heiny and Sawyer will be available everyday after school from here until finals for support.

2nd Homeroom- we updated current state of things on getting a multimedia homeroom for Layne. Everyone has signed off on it and it should happen about the first week next semester.

Purity- discussion was had on changes that need to occur in order to get back to purity after powerschools changes from summer. Those fixes should take effect start of next semester.

Collaboration- plans were made for increasing integrated project coordination for next semester, this included when we will be logging our hours.

Teachers- brainstorming for next year’s teachers to be added was discussed. We opened dialog with Kramer, McWhorter and Lewis. We are still considering another math teacher and an English teacher.

Vision/Mission statement- all are thinking about this.

Funds- everyone was encouraged to put in their P.O.’s before March so money isn’t frozen at the D.O. level.

Next year common lunches- conversation was had with Matt Anderson about getting our new teachers next year on a common lunch with us and that way all the kids are on the same lunch as well so we can have bbq’s etc. for unity. This is looking good.

Moodle for the Academy

Would there be interest in my installing Moodle onto the domain for the digital academy? This would provide us with a uniform calendar - and maybe help the kids get organized next semester. Instead of the wiki just sitting idle, Moodle might be more useful.

Let me know. I'll gladly install Moodle and start setting up the courses.

Making Blog your home page?

I was thinking about strategies to improving our usage of the blog and thought, "What if everyone agreed to make it their home page?" That would be an automatic reminder and allow us to see when everyone else is posting in a more timely and regular basis. I know everyone has likely changed their home page to powerschools by now, but it wouldn't be that difficult to open a tab each morning of power schools because you will never forget/neglect opening it, but this would help us push forward with using the blog. How would you guys feel about that?

Next Meeting

So... since we came back from Thanksgiving it has been difficult to coordinate getting together next for our after school meeting. It looks like Monday or Tuesday would be best at this point. What day works best for everyone? I vote for Tuesday myself, but will do whatever is the concensus.