Business Technology

Course Rationale:  This area of instruction provides content for employment in one of the largest major occupational groups, administrative support.  Demand in this career area will continue to expand as businesses utilize advanced office technology to increase their production efficiency and improve the quality of their products and services.  This area of instruction benefits students by enhancing the word processing and communication competencies needed by administrative support professionals.

Helpful Links:

Cambridge Dictionary

Zip Codes

White Pages

Credit Scores Assignment- My FICO Worksheet Doc Web

Resources:

Jostens Yearbook Website: Yearbook Avenue

Picture Taking Practice/Skills - PDF

2015 Theme: This is How We Roll

Them Ideas:

Fonts for 2015 Yearbook

Resizing a Photo in Photoshop for a higher resolution:

  1. Open your image in Photoshop
  2. Go to Image on the Menu Bar
  3. Click Resize Image
  4. Set the resolution to 300.
  5. Click okay
  6. Save the image in your documents in order to upload it to the Jostens website. You can save it in your documents because you are the only one that needs it in a larger file size.

Photoshop - Lighten an Image Video

  1. Open your image in Photoshop
  2. Duplicate the layer in the layers palat
  3. Change the image layer from normal to screen mode
  4. Adjust the opacity as needed
  5. Flatten the image and save again
  6. Save the image in your documents in order to upload it to the Jostens website.

Format for Senior Register:

FFA: 1,2,3,4; FFA Awards: 2,3,4; Homecoming Escort: 3,4; Softball: 1,2,3,4; Softball All Conference: 3,4; Softball All Districts: 3,4.

 

Create a Signature for the Senior Pages:

  1. Go into Photoshop
  2. Create a new blank document
  3. Name - senior_signature_yourname
  4. Resolution of 300
  5. Transparent background
  6. Click OK
  7. Simply select the brush tool with whatever foreground color you want and you should be able to paint your signature just as you would write your name with a pen.
  8. Save as Senior_Signature_Yourname in the public folder under senior_signatures_20?? as TIFF with Layers and Transparency.
  9. You will then need to upload the image to the Jostens website to the appropriate signature folder.

Requirements for Yearbook Page Templates:

Date Assigned

Template

Requirements
 
  • Senior Template:
  1. A place for the name in print - Primary Heading
  2. A place for the composite picture (dominate picture)
  3. A place for the baby picture
  4. A place for the register
  5. A place for the seniors signature
  6. Perhaps a clip-art that relates to the seniors activities.
  7. Room for a collage of each seniors pictures
  8. An eye line
  9. A place that says this page was designed by . . .
  10. Exact measurement for height and width of all picture boxes
  11. Exact measurement for width of all text boxes.
  12. Text and picture boxes should be at least two picas from the gutter.

 

9-15-14
  • Class Template:
  1. Class - Primary Heading
  2. A place for at least 20 student mug shots
  3. Place for the teacher/class sponsor
  4. A place for the students’ name (Format of students’ name).
  5. A place for class picture (horizontal) or class officer picture (vertical).
  6. A place for questions for students (click-n-go of some sort, can also be a graph)
  7. A place that says this page was designed by . . .
  8. Exact measurement for height and width of all picture boxes
  9. Exact measurement for width of all text boxes.
  10. An exact measurement for the x and y coordinates on everything.
  11. Text and picture boxes should be at least two picas from the gutter.
  12. Use clip-art and fonts that go along with the theme and cover.
  13. Enough picture boxes for each student to be on the page 3 times
    (Mug shot, group picture and snap shot).

 
 
  • Sports Template:
  1. Sport - Primary Heading
  2. A place for captions for every picture box
  3. A place for the team’s picture.
  4. A place for players with special honors
  5. Scoreboard
  6. A place that says this page was designed by . . .
  7. Exact measurement for height and width of all picture boxes
  8. Exact measurement for width of all text boxes.
  9. An exact measurement for the x and y coordinates on everything.
  10. Text and picture boxes should be at least two picas from the gutter.

 
 
  • Lead-off Template:
  1. Lead-off - Primary Heading
  2. Text and picture boxes should be at least two picas from the gutter unless layout goes through the gutter.
  3. Lead-offs do not always have captions, but they are nice to have, be creative!
  4. A place that says this page was designed by . . .

 
 
  • Organizations Template:
  1. Title for organization - Primary Heading
  2. Place for organization picture - dominate picture
  3. Place for officer picture.
  4. A place that says this page was designed by . . .
  5. Should have an eye line across the page.
  6. Text and picture boxes should be at least two picas from the gutter.