Project description: You will be working in your on-line magazine groups to create a digital story that will be included in your on-line magazine.  The comic strip will consist of 10 digital photos illustrating a story and text to accompany each photo.

The project consists of 5 parts, each with its own due date.

  PART ONE – Due  _____________.  You are to work on this part of the assignment for homework and show it in to me on the due date.

Develop an idea for a story and include:

1)  Details on the setting of the story;  the story must be set in SHS or within the perimeter of the building.

2)  Details on the characters.  You need to reflect on who is in your group and consider them as possible characters.  That does not mean your story is to revolve around students; they can become mothers, fathers, teachers, etc.  Your story should have 3 – 4 characters.  You may also call on students you know who have free periods that may want to participate.

3)  What is going to be the central conflict of your story?  Is the conflict resolved?  If so how?  If not, why not?

4)  What is the lot of your story?  You need to consider the main parts such as rising actions, climax, and falling action.

5)  What is the message or theme you’d like to communicate with your story?

PART TWO – Due at The End of Class  ______________________. 

You will have the class time during __________and ____________to decide as a group:

a)  What your group’s story idea will be.  Remember, you can select from one of the ideas brought to the group, or create a new possibility by combining several ideas from the group.

b)  Which members will fulfill the following roles within the assignment: photographer, director, writer, web designer, characters. (note: some of the roles should be combined to equalize the work effort of the assignment).  Once roles are assigned, students are to realize that role assignment is only to help with the organization of the project and they are not limited to that area.  Each member is expected to participate in all other aspects of the assignment, regardless of their assigned role, by offering suggestions and feedback throughout.

c)  By the end of class on __________, Each group will submit a plan of how they will organize their story on a sheet I will give you. You may use only 10 photos so you will have to think critically about what images to create and the text that will be included.

PART THREE –Taking photos and building the web page.

Possibly beginning __________ (if your group is ready) and finishing by the end of class on ____________ your group will begin arranging and taking photos and putting everything together on a web page.  There are only three digital cameras so they will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.  Once a group has a camera they have 40 minutes to use it.  If they exceed that time, points will be deducted from their final group mark.  Since there is a limited time, your planning on the ___ and ___ is crucial!

The Web Page - The page should include the following:

a)  A title for your story (check out www.flamingtext.com for fun with the title graphic).

b) The names of all group participants (under the title).

c)  A background, various fonts, font colours, and sound effects if it suits you! 

d)  You will arrange the photos and text by using the tables option in FrontPage or Netscape Composer.  Select the table option from the toolbar

 and insert 1 row with 2 columns and select ‘center’. Once you select ok, 2 rectangles will appear on your page.

 These first 2 rectangles will be where you will insert the first 2 pictures of your story (be sure to center your pictures).  If you press the ‘tab’ key, another now of boxes will be added and you can add your text there.  Each time you press the tab key, 2 new boxes will appear underneath the previous row.

PART FOUR – Due ____________.

The final project must be completed by ___________.  You will hand in on a piece of paper the names of each group member and the location of the final product.  I.e. whose home directory the project is saved on. You will also submit your evaluation forms (see part 5) on line by ___________. 

PART FIVE – Due _____________ with the comic strip.

This is where each group member has their say on their own participation in the project, and the participation of others.  Throughout the course of the assignment each of you will be evaluating the other, and yourselves, using the following criteria.  It is worth 50% of your grade on this assignment, so read it over carefully and make sure you are accountable during the group work.

Digital comic Strip Peer and Self Evaluation- 

Grade scheme:

This evaluation is to be completed using the on-line form no later than _________.