AiDA, DiDA (and all the other ones)
Sometimes I lose all my AiDA stuff. It's true - it's all in odd places. So here's everything in one place...
The Tell Tale page has some examples of story telling techniques that you might be interested in taking a look at. They aren't too advanced and are easily doable with a bit of thought and planning.
Copyright Free Assets
It's really important to use copyright free materials.
This makes sure you don't rip other people off, keeps to the law and helps you get marks. It's the marks I'm really interested in, although I do think it's important not to just rip people off as well.
Good sources of copyright free images are:
> Morgue File
- a really useful source of a wide range of images
> the E2BN gallery - this also has some useful sound and video files
> Wikipedia - almost every image used on wikipedia will be copyright free
> Geograph - for images of places. Search it using the maps
A great source of copyright free images is to do an Advanced Search in Flickr. Unfortunately you can't access Flickr in school, but you might want to use it at home. Almost all of the images on my Flickr photostream are copyright free - you just need to make sure you credit me with having taken the picture (there's an example of how to credit a photographer on some of my geography revision pages). Lots of Flickr users use Creative Commons as a way of allowing people like you to use their images.
Free SFX is a free sound effects site. It seems to have some quite useful stuff on it that might be really helpful. You need to register to download them, but we have a school login so ask for that when you're in school!
Planning and Organising
To sort your planning section out you'll need to:
- read the SPB really carefully. Try to figure out what it's about and who the audience for the publications is. You need to make a list of the main documents you'll need to produce
- organise. Create a single folder for all your work. In that put sub-folders (project management, database and so on). Keep all the planning stuff in the project management folder - that's what it's for. Sort out a Sources Table, decide on a Test Buddy
- create a timeplan up front. Don't leave this to the end - find out what your finish date is and plan your time so that you have an idea how long things might take. Yes, this involves being a bit grown up and sensible. You can do that
- keep up to date. Keep your project log and timeplan up to date and make sure you record sources in your sources or asset table
- use copyright free images
PLTS and stuff
Diploma people (if there are any left) might also want to check the PLTS recording sheet. You should find that AiDA work allows you to check off a bunch of PLTS (perhaps with the exception of Teamworking).
PLTS recording sheet - an MS Word version you can type straight in
I think PLTS and Diplomas and stuff have gone out of fashion a bit just now. I'll leave these up here for now - this sort of thing is bound to come back at some point...
SPBs:
> You can do it Level 2 SPB - key documents: 3 database reports, meal card, information point, challenge card
> You can do it Level 1 SPB - key documents: 3 database reports, healthy breakfast card, presentation, poster
> WildCare Level 2 SPB - key documents: 3 reports, membership pack, card and leaflet
> WildCare Level 1 SPB - key documents: leaflet, bookmark and presentation
> Window on my World Level 2 SPB - key documents: animated logo, information point, swap advert, promotional movie
> Window on my World Level 1 SPB - key documents: logo, swap advert, web page, promotional movie
> The teachers bit - where all the markschemes and stuff live. This is always impossible for me to find!