TTI 10                                                                                Mr. Charlebois

Design/Communications Technology

This component of the integrated technology course will focus on the design of a popsicle stick bridge along with other supporting assignments, and you will become familiar with desktop publishing, presentation software and the use of the Internet.

In addition to the assignments, you will get a daily class mark from the teacher based on your class behaviour, participation and effort. And you will also give yourself a daily mark:

     1 (poor class work) --------> 4 (excellent class behaviour and work)

Assessment:

          Communication                           20%

          Knowledge                                  20%

          Thinking Inquiry                        20%

          Application                                40%

The following is a list of activities that will be covered during this section (Note: activities may not be presented in this order)

          ∙        Web-Quest Bridges         

          ∙        West Point Bridge Design

          ∙        Designing your Bridge

          ∙        Design your bridge on AutoCAD

          ∙        Bridge construction

          ∙        Bridge report

          ∙        Famous bridges slide show presentation

          ∙        Multimedia presentation using Hyperstudio

          ∙        Web page design

          ∙        Newsletter (Corel Wordperfect 8)

          ∙        Quiz

          ∙        Notebook

          ∙        Log sheets