Latest Updates For The New Year!

Hi all! The new semester will start soon so do take note in some of the changes in the Teachers-in-Charge of our Infocomm Club:

Overall Teacher In Charge
Mr Lim Loo Guang


Editorial Team
Mdm Nashita

Sec 1-4 Teachers in Charge
Mr Lim Loo Guang
Mr Hafeez
Mr Tay Kuang Ming


PA Teachers in Charge
Ms Lalitha (Flag Raising & Assembly)
Mdm Yee (School Events)


Sec 1 and 2 Trainer
Miss Nur


Sec 3 and 4 Trainer
Mr Sean (new)

Please report to the respective teachers during CCA.
Training schedules will be as per normal:

Monday, 3.30pm - 5.30pm
Computer Lab 3 & 4




Wednesday, 8am - 10 am
Computer Lab 3 & 4




Editorial
Tuesday, 3pm - 5pm
Computer Lab 3

There may be changes in the day of training e.g sec 1 and 3 on Monday, Sec 2 and 4 on Wednesday. We will keep you updated on this. For the time being, stick to the schedules mentioned above.

Also, do take note that CCA Carnival/Recruitment will be on Wednesday, 6 January 2010.

Last but not least, have a happy new year!! Cheers!

National 3D Game Building Competition 2009 Results

Results of National 3D Game Building Competition 2009 with Missionmaker

– Redesigning Pedagogies with Gaming

Overall Champion
MAK09220 Tampines Secondary School / Continuous Improvement

Secondary School Category

• Champion: MAK09173 Hong Kah Sec Sch / Team 1
• First Runner-Up: MAK09208 Regent Sec Sch / Nexus
• Second Runner-Up: MAK09166 Geylang Methodist Sec Sch / The GEM

Merits (not in order of score):

• MAK09184 Maris Stella High School (Secondary) / Dark Brown Ballistic
• MAK09191 Nan Chiau High School / NC Gamers
• MAK09223 Tanjong Katong Secondary School / nil
• MAK09133 Bedok Green Secondary School / Green Colossus
• MAK09196 North Vista Secondary School / nil
• MAK09185 Maris Stella High School (Secondary) / Fablers

The winners will be announced via MOE broadcast in January 2010. The prize presentation ceremony will be held in 2010 together with the launch of the National 3D Game Building Competition 2010 with Missionmaker.

Congrats!

Just A Few Updates...

hey all, a few updates...

1. the two students who are going for the infocomm quest challenge at nan chiau high, please come back to sch on WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV @ 10 am, lab4. miss nur will give you a crash course on using flash! (:
   
2. ANIMANIA... please email miss nur whatever you guys have done.... she'll give you ideas on how to improve and such... and those who wish to come back and do it in sch, please let miss nur know. thanks!
   
3. ICC CAMP! 23-25 nov! updates will be given to all of you soon!

alright that's it for now.. enjoy your semester break, yaw!

Animania 2010

To all sec1 and 2 students involved,

I hope you have not forgotten about your participation in this competition. DATELINE IS DECEMBER 1ST.

Now that the exams are over, I'm opening up lab 4 for you guys after school, to work on your animation. BUT PLEASE INFORM ME IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO STAY BACK.

For those who wish to do it at home, by all means, go ahead. But do take note that if you are using Adobe Flash CS4 to do your animation, it cant be opened in school. Cause our school's version is Macromedia MX 2004 (very old, i know).

Also, Motion Tween in Adobe CS 3 and MX 2004 is called Classic Tween in Adobe CS 4.

If you face any difficulties in doing up your flash, you can email me!

alfisyah@asknlearn.com

North Zone Inter-school Infocomm Skill Quest Challenge by Nan Chiau High School Infocomm Club

Hi all! Hope all of you are doing good... Those of you who have finished sitting for exams, good for you! Those who have not, hang in there... It'll be all over soon!

Anyway, here's an update about a competition that will be carried out @ Nan Chiau High School. The details are as follows:

North Zone Inter-school Infocomm Skill Quest Challenge

Target audience: North Zone Upper Primary and Lower Secondary ICC members
Date: 5 Nov 2009
Venue: Nan Chiau High School
Time: 0800 - 1330

Brief Description about North Zone Inter-school Infocomm Skill Quest Challenge

• Each school will be represented a group of 2 students.
  
• One student from each group will have to register their mobile phone number with NCHS SMS System. Each group will be provided with a simplified map of the school.
  
• When competition begins, NCHS SMS System will send questions related to infocomm to the competitors. Competitiors will have to provide the correct answers to receive a clue to the location one of the station.
  
• At each of the station, the competitiors will have have to complete a particular IT tasks, e.g. create a simple animation to morph a square into a circle, or create a short advertisments, etc.
  
• Upon completion of the challenge at each station, the group will receive the code which will unlock the clue to the next station. The time to taken to complete the tasks will be recorded by our system.
  
• The group which complete the most number of stations with the submission of the best quality and the shortest time will be the winner.

Mr G and I will be accompanying TWO students we have registered for that event. Please note, Adriel Lam (1E5) and Bai Ching Sheng (2E2).

Registration will close TOMORROW (15 Oct) but if there are students who are interested to go with us, please inform me!

You can go to the following website for more details about this event:

http://nchs-icc.com/yiw2009/

Have a good day!

-miss nur

On Hold!

To all ICC members, there will be no more training due to examination period UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. =(

For those participants taking part in ANIMANIA, please continue with your tracing and storyboard at your own time. When training resume, i expect everything to be ready, so we can start on the animation itself + inserting of audio into your animations.

If you need any help with your flash, please email me at alfisyah@asknlearn.com or contact me @ 82988243.


Regards,

Miss Nur

Come Back, Please Come Back!

for those of you who are not aware (especially the sec ones!) cca has resumed! we are already on our third lesson for flash/action scripting. if you have not been coming, please turn up for our next session.

EVERY MONDAY

3.30 PM @ COMPUTER LAB 4

i will update about the animania competition in the next entry... coming soon! if you dont know what i'm talking about, COME FOR TRAINING!

Head off hibernation problems before they arise

If your computer suffers from errors when you bring it out of hibernation, you should take some proactive steps for every hibernation session.

Before and during hibernation/standby:

• Never change major hardware configurations. For example, don’t dock a laptop that was undocked when it entered standby, and never attach USB devices during this time.
  
  
• Always close applications that don’t work well with power saving modes before forcing hibernation or standby. CD and DVD burning applications and backup utilities are common culprits of computer instability after resuming.

Switch the email you're composing back to a document (Word 2000/2002/2003/2007)

Word is a great email-editing tool, and it's easy to use as well. You can simply click the E-mail button on the Standard toolbar to convert your document to an email and continue composing. However, if you decide you'd prefer to save your work as a document rather than as an email, how do you convert the email message into a Word document? All you need to do is click the E-mail button again. The email header information goes away, and you're left with the Word document you want.

In Office 2007, you can switch back and forth between an email and a Word document too. But you need to add the Send To Mail Recipient button to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do so, click on the Quick Access Toolbar's down arrow and choose More Commands from the dropdown list. Select All Commands from the Choose Commands From dropdown list. Scroll down until you find Send To Mail Recipient and select it. Click the Add button to move the command to the list box on the right. Click OK and you'll find the Send To Mail Recipient button on your Quick Access Toolbar. When you click the button, your document becomes an email. Click it again to toggle back to a Word document.

Create a shape on a new layer (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

Photoshop automatically fills a shape layer, which you can make with any Shape, Line, or Pen tool, with the foreground color. You can also apply a gradient or pattern via layer styles. To create a shape layer, select one of the Shape tools, and be sure to click the Create New Shape Layer button on the tool Options bar. Photoshop stores the shape outline as a vector mask that appears in the Paths panel.

Easily undo multiple actions in Excel (2000/2001/2002/2003/2007)

If you're a longtime keyboard jockey, you probably instinctively use the [Ctrl]Z shortcut when you want to undo a change you've made. However, if you need to backtrack through many steps, you may not recall exactly how many steps you need to undo. Chances are you'll backtrack too far and then wind up redoing more steps than you had planned. The next time you find yourself in this situation, use the dropdown arrows on Excel's Undo and Redo buttons. These provide you with a running list of your recent actions so you can easily undo or repeat exactly the steps you want. (In Excel 2007, the Undo and Redo buttons still have a dropdown arrow. But you'll need to look for these buttons on your Quick Access Toolbar.)

Showing the current date and time in a worksheet cell (Excel 2000/2001/2002/2003/2007)

Sometimes there's an advantage to storing the current date or time in a worksheet cell. For instance, the worksheet's layout may lend itself to showing the date inline with the data, as opposed to in the header section. Or, your worksheet may use date-based formulas that process data according to the current date and time. Regardless of the reason, it's easy to create cells that display the current date and time.

To show the current day, just enter the following formula in a cell:
=TODAY()


To show the current date and time together, enter the formula:
=NOW()

You can change how the date and time appear by changing the cell's number format. For instance, you can format the NOW function result so that only the time portion is shown. To change the formatting, select the cell and choose Format | Cells from the menu bar. Then, click on the Number tab and select a format type from the Date or Time categories.

TIP: Eliminate vanishing pencil lines while drawing (Illustrator CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

If you’ve ever created an illustration with the Pencil tool you’ve most likely noticed every time you draw a path next to an already selected path, the original line disappears as soon as you draw the next line. Why? Because the Pencil tool defaults to path-editing mode. This means that when you draw a line near a selected previous line, Illustrator assumes you want to edit the previous line, so it deletes the line and replaces it with the new line. Annoying, right? Don’t worry—you can change this behavior.

To do so:

1. Double-click on the Pencil tool to open the Pencil Tool Preferences dialog box.
2. Deselect the Edit Selected Paths check box or reduce the pixel distance using the slider at the bottom and click OK.

Today's Tip: Open a flat version of a layered file (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

When you want to open a layered file as a flat composite instead, hold down [shift][option] ([Shift][Alt] in Windows) as you open the selected file. Photoshop displays an Adobe Photoshop dialog box that asks, "Read the composite data instead?" Just click OK and your file appears as a flattened version of the layered file.

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UPDATED: FAMILIARISATION TRAINING SESSION FOR 3D GAME BUILIDING PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ON THIS FRIDAY (8 MAY).

Since you guys will be leaving early on that day and you have a long weekend to study for the exam, you are adviced to prioritise your studies first and not practise your gaming during the long weekend.

Mr Danny Loh will meet you guys there.

If there are any problems, please contact Miss Nur via hp. Thanks.

MYE is hereeeee!

to all participants of National 3D Game Building Comp, there will be NO familiarisation session tmr, due to labour day. and familiarisation session on the 8th of may is CANCELLED due to mye.

and all eHeritage participants, please email me your eBook by 20th may. you dont have to finish it. i just want to see what you have done so far. please remember the tips i gave you on wednesday.

please check this blog regulary for updates. thanks!

and pls study hard for your exams!

Familiarisation Session For 3D Game Builiding

To the members involved, please note that the familiarisation session at Ngee Ann Sec tomorrow is CANCELLED due to eLearning Day.

Next training will be on the 3rd of April and the Fridays following that.

You are to go to the training venue yourself and an ICC teacher or myself will meet you guys there.

Please refer to the map of the school below for reference on getting there:

Getting there from Tampines MRT Station / Bus Interchange:
Bus 291 (Townlink) & Bus 28 Bus stop just outside the school gate




Other bus services:
3, 8, 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 37, 38, 39, 81, 291, 293, 518

Please meet at the school canteen. Do not enter the labs by yourselves. Training will be at 3pm - 5pm. DO NOT BE LATE. You only have 8 sessions to attend before the competition day itself, so please make full use of the sessions assigned to you.

If you have any queries, please contact Miss Nur.

Thanks.

MOS 2009

TO ALL MOS PARTICIPANTS,
please access the following URL:

https://itacademy.microsoftelearning.com/

A Windows Live ID is required to access the content.

Participants may choose to use an existing Live ID (e.g. Hotmail account) or visit http://get.live.com/getlive/overview to sign up for a new Live ID.

National 3D Game Building Competition

The following are the names of students involved in the National 3D Game Building Competition with MissionMaker:


NVSS Team 1:
Jia Xun - 1E4
Hifzhan - 1E1
Teh Hian Yong - 1E3




NVSS Team 2:
Eugene Lim - 1E5
Say Wei - 1E2
Barry - 1E2




NVSS Team 3:
Yun Teik - 1E2
Ronald - 1E5
Benny - 1E4


First two trainings will be on the 17th of March(tomorrow) and 18th of March.

Please meet in front of the general office at 12pm. Those who have not handed in their consent form, please do so tomorrow.

Thanks.