Author: kpalana_tis

kpalana_tis https://thalun570912935.wordpress.com I'm an Associate Professor of Digital Media at American University of Myanmar teaching ICT classes to secondary students at Thalun International School. This is our class blog.

Website Design -Grade 9

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Over the past few weeks, students have been working on creating high quality web content, learning about site navigation and user-friendly features, and creating and curating the best original visual content for their own personal websites. Students are using the free website builder Wix and will be able to add to and enhance their websites moving forward.

Come see what we are up to by clicking the students’ links:

 AKK Jr. -Grade 9
 Website:
https://nxs-site.wixsite.com/junior

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Website Design -Grade 8

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Over the past few weeks, students have been working on creating high quality web content, learning about site navigation and user-friendly features, and creating and curating the best original visual content for their own personal websites. Students are using the free website builder Wix and will be able to add to and enhance their websites moving forward.

Come see what we are up to by clicking the students’ links:

Thora -Grade 8
 Website:
https://thora92.wixsite.com/thor-riffic

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Website Design -Grades 10 and 11

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Over the past few weeks, students have been working on creating high quality web content, learning about site navigation and user-friendly features, and creating and curating the best original visual content for their own personal websites. Students are using the free website builder Wix and will be able to add to and enhance their websites moving forward.

Come see what we are up to by clicking the students’ links:

Mary -Grade 11
 Website:
https://yunsulin.wixsite.com/marylin

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Website Design -Grade 7

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Over the past few weeks, students have been working on creating high quality web content, learning about site navigation and user-friendly features, and creating and curating the best original visual content for their own personal websites. Students are using the free website builder Wix and will be able to add to and enhance their websites moving forward.

Come see what we are up to by clicking the students’ links:

Oattra -Grade 7
 Website:
https://oattrak.wixsite.com/oatmealservices

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A Course in Bending Reality -Stop Motion Mania!

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Thalun ICT students in grades 6-10 have been playing with reality by learning how to make toys and favorite video game characters come to life, turn their friends into powerful magicians,  send rockets into outer space, create mysterious self-solving puzzles, and invent pizza that gobbles itself up. (Clean-up still required!)

 


Opaque by Jonathan Tayza Shwe -Grade 10

 

Though the end-of-the-trimester fairy is about to come and hit pause on another school year, students have been busy making props, characters, and sets for their own stop motion animated films in ICT class.

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Social Media Graphics -Grades 8, 9, & 10

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In ICT class students found some favorite quotes and learned to present them in visual form, in particular for sharing on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Students focused on message clarity, graphic dimensions, font choices, contrast, layout, choosing imagery that supports the text, color scheme, and impact.

Here are a few examples from grades 8, 9, and 10: (*Click to enlarge)

 

Created by: Htet Paing,  Tet Naing Soe,  Hikari Tsuneyoshi, John Wai Yan Lin, Sabrina Kyi Myat Noe Khin, and AKK Aung Khant Kyaw

 

 

 

 

Social Media Graphics -Grades 6 and 7

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In ICT class students found some favorite quotes and learned to present them in visual form, in particular for sharing on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Students focused on message clarity, graphic dimensions, font choices, contrast, layout, choosing imagery that supports the text, color scheme, and impact.

Here are a few examples from grades 6 and 7: (*Click to enlarge)

Created by: Juan Carlos, Thandar Tun, Thora Thandar Aung, Than Toe Naing, Wai Yan Win Aung, Thoon Myat Naingin, OK,  Kaung Myat Htut, and Nicholas Dana David Tin