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The Book Project

In this course students develop the skills of a graphic program (Corel Draw) and then they learn to apply these skills to illustrate a book they have written in their English Class.  The best books will be printed and bound for the DCB library.
 
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Getting Started with Corel Draw

You will love this program, I guarantee it.coolbig grinbig grinsurprise
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More tools in Corel Draw

How to use combine and extrude to make holes in things.  Blending, transparency and shadows.  Outlines or none.
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Working with text

The two types of Corel Draw text - artistic and paragraph.
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Resources from the web

Useful links to Corel galleries, tutorials and other helpful stuff.
fish from advanced artist leaf by advanced artist rose by ariel
By Advanced Artist
 By Ariel
 By Ariel

from: http://coreldraw.com/photos/advancedartist/default.aspx
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Teacher resources

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  • Lesson plan 1.2.4 Word document
  • Lesson plan 1.2.5 Word document
  • Lesson Plan 1.2.6 Word document

  • Evaluation

    A nice project, well-received by the general population. A thrill for the students and their English teachers to see their books published.

    Excellent idea to display these in the library and have a comments book - it gives the students a real incentive to proofread their work carefully and think about the writing task.

    Most students became fairly proficient at using Corel although a few tried to sneak in bitmaps from Google via the back door (eg by using Corel's trace facility). We allowed some use of bitmaps for backgrounds and so on.

    The best books had a host of features such as barcodes and isbn's on the back, bio's of the authors with photos and small illustrations on every page to bring a bit of sparkle. Coloured backgrounds were very suitable for books aimed at younger children.

    Variations could include using Paint or Open Source drawing programs. Suitable for ages 11 years and upwards.

    This course was delivered at Dulwich College Beijing but first originated (as far as I know) with my colleagues Mikk Towers and Dave Foston at the United World College of South East Asia.

    Richard Jones

    Beijing, February 2008.

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