Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Graphics Software

For Students 9th - 10th
Review and quiz yourself on graphics software, which includes drawing packages, painting packages, and CAD.
Website
Other

Web Reference: Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
WebReference contains many tutorials on many different topics in relation to graphics. It also includes links, informative essays, and interviews.
Website
Other

Jessett: Graphic Design

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to graphic design that includes information on color layout, design layout, different graphic design software, and tutorials using different types of software.
Handout
Other

University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...
Website
Other

Museum of Web Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating site devoted to art and graphics used on the world wide web. Explore the best in buttons, banners, counters, and more.
Unit Plan
ACT360 Media

Act Den (Digital Education Network) Software Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Free online tutorials for computer software, including FrontPage, Office, PowerPoint, and Outlook Express are generously offered at this website. Students will find it easy to follow Agent Max Millennium as he guides them through...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L5: Show Me Your Skills: Practice Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 3 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about adding shapes and graphics to spreadsheets, using drawing tools to format them, using the autosum function,...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M4: L4: And This! Inserting Objects and Content

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 4 Lesson 4 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to insert text, graphics, and charts into a spreadsheet. They will learn how to import and export data and images between different types of documents. Includes a...
Website
Other

New Breed Software: Tux Paint

For Students 3rd - 5th
This resource provides a free drawing program designed for elementary students.
Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Choosing Whether to Use Software or Technology to Enhance Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A tutorial explaining how to use technology to create graphics and visuals to enhance documents and presentations. A brief audiovisual presentation identifies types of visuals, and another audiovisual presentation describes how and when...
Website
Other

Inspiration Software

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the official website of Inspiration Software, Inc. The company offers visual learning software for students. The site offers a great deal of information on visual learning and provides lesson plans that use visual learning as a...
Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M4: L5: Show Me Your Skills: Practice Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
In Module 4 Lesson 5 of this course on spreadsheets, students review what they have learned in the previous four lessons about building charts, using conditional formatting, and enhancing their spreadsheet by inserting images, text, and...
Website
Other

Pankpages

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains free downloadable graphics such as buttons and backgrounds, as well as tutorials which focus on Photoshop.
Website
Other

Web reference.com: 3 D Animation Workshop

For Students 9th - 10th
WebReference provides dozens of tutorials on 3D graphics.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Iste Nets: Creating a Heroic Character (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan sequence, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), encourages students to develop a fully realized heroic character and then, through the use of multimedia software, communicate that...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Christmas Creations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will create their own Christmas ornaments and gift labels. Students must be able to set up the formatting for these documents appropriately using graphic design software. (Please also see project-based lesson plan attachment.)...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Computers in Chemistry at Cabrillo College project creates visually compelling and effective educational chemistry software for both students and instructors. Includes molecular models, student exercises, tutorials, and posters that...
Graphic
Other

Free Web Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
A page full of free animation, clip art, backgrounds, and other graphics to be used on web pages. Simply download an image to use.
Article
Other

Graphics Visualization & Usability Center: Animation Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
A university-level article describing complex computer animation techniques used to simulate human motion. Includes helpful images.
Article
Other

Wes Tech Vision: Inspiration Software

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This article explains why Inspiration is a must for your classroom. The author states that Inspiration is "Available to help learners of all ages bridge the gap between visual and textual literacy, and aid in concept development in...
Handout
Ohio State University

Osu: Introduction to Computer Animation

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to computer animation, written at an advanced level. Includes an overview of computer animation and discusses its heritage, history, software tools, and more. Lots of embedded links to information on related topics.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Program Analysis Using App Inventor

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In computer science, program analysis is used to determine the behavior of computer programs. Flow charts are an important tool for understanding how programs work by tracing control flow. Control flow is a graphical representation of...
Website
Other

Carnegie Mellon University: Alice V2.0

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to program with Alice v2.0! Utilizing easy-to-learn drag-and-drop methods, Alice provides a wonderful introduction to programming methods. Create 3D graphics, a video game, a movie, or other interactive environment!
Handout
Other

Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles

For Students 9th - 10th
An online manual for Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites. Includes links to Philosophy, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Web Graphics, and Web Multimedia and Animation chapters, with Appendices.