Sell A Teacher
Time
3.5 hrs
Difficulty
Intermediate
Prerequisites
Photography 101
Departments
Human Technologies
Authors
Alan Dickson
Ross Parker
Ross Parker
Groupings
Individual
Pairs
Pairs
Minimum Year Group
None
Blurb
You've learn some graphic design skills in Epic Wallpaper. This unit let's you put these to use in building a packaging box to sell your favourite teacher.
License
This work is shared under the following license: Creative Commons BY-SA-NC
Outline
| The Pitch Why should I bother learning this?
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| Resources What is needed to run this unit?
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Interdisciplinary Links Do not try and force this. What areas of other subjects might this reflect and/discuss language. For IB, links with ToK.
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| Teacher Reflection What was successful? What needs changing? Alternative Assessments and Lesson Ideas? What other Differentiation Ideas/Plans could be used?
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| Credits Any CC attribution, thanks, credit, etc.
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5 mins
Sell A Teacher
The Pitch
- Computer-based graphic design lets us be amazingly creative.
- So, use your creativity to make a mini box to sell your favourite teacher.
5 mins
Service With A Smile
Example Work
- The aim of packaging is to sell a product.
- Check out the example below, which sells the teacher Mr. Service:
- Think about this box, and answer the following questions for yourself:
- Which teacher do you want to sell (they do not need to be at your current school)?
- How can you get a photo of this teacher on a plain background?
- What features make your chosen teacher special?
- What elements need to be designed into packaging (product name, product image, warnings, etc)? This is important in making your package as realistic as possible.
- Why is the top panel of the box upside down?
- Once you have the answers, you are ready to get started.
195 mins
Building Your Box
Doing It
- Take the box template image and open it in Acorn.
- Save your work as a .acorn file.
- Now work through the following steps, using the skills you learned in Epic Wallpaper.
- You may also find this Acorn box tutorial useful.
- Add a background to your box pattern. This can be a colour gradient or an image. Make sure any images you use are CC licensed.
- Get the photo of your teacher, and remove the background (Magic Wand and Instant Alpha tools are useful here).
- Add the photo of your teacher to your box.
- Add other essential information to your box, trying to make it as realistic as possible.
- Add a CC license badge and your name to the box.
- Show your box to your friends and your teacher to get feedback and improve it.
5 mins
Share Your Box
Evidence
- Save your box design as a .png file, and submit it as evidence of what you have learned.
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| Unit | Students |
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 Image Courtesy of Fan Wang |
Fan Shared on 02/03/2015 |
