What's Happening in IST

Year 9 Information Software & Technology have been working on their Digital Media unit throughout this Term. This unit involves learning about a range of digital media types and the software that is most appropriate for the manipulation, design and production of projects such as digital magazines, videos and graphics. 

This week, Year 9 IST have been learning the ins and outs of Adobe Photoshop, specifically how to manipulate digital images using the software. Their first formative task, which they have begun working to showcase their newfound skills, is to gather images of fruits and vegetables and manipulate them into a cartoon character. 

Students needed to use a variety of skills such as using selection tools, resizing, cropping, rotating and image layering  in order to produce their final product. After making a cartoon face, the class was required to take their designs a step further by thinking “how can I make this even better?”. This inquiry question encouraged them to research and develop their photoshop skills to create some really interesting and comedic cartoons!

I am looking forward to seeing how their Photoshop skills continue to evolve and to see where their creativity and eagerness to learn takes their designs! 

Keep up the great work Year 9!

Shanai Mifsud

Technologies Teacher