Scholarship opportunity for seniors

• The MHS Alumni Association is offering 3 scholarships- more details here

 Today’s goal:

• Create an infographic, interactive image, or collage to promote March’s Harvest of the Month, dairy

Harvest of the Month digital media promotion

• You’re going to create images for the school webpage and social media to promote the school lunch program’s Harvest of the month
• Where your stuff will go: school webpage, school/city Facebook, school/city Twitter
• March’s Harvest of the Month is dairy products. Today school nutritionist Retta Smith is visiting us and she’s bringing cheese for us to sample!
• Working in teams of 2 at your tables, choose 1 medium to work with today:
  • infographic (sign up for free account)
  • interactive image (sign up for free account)
  • collage (no account needed)
• Get images:
  • https://unsplash.com/
  • https://www.pexels.com/
  • Bing.com (do image search, then search for free to share and use)
• Dairy facts to potentially include:
  • Where our dairy products are from (name of local farm)
  • When it’s being served or what is being served
  • Info from the Harvest of the Month website
  • Popular recipes (title and maybe a link to a recipe)
  • Nutritional benefits (make sure to cite your source)
  • Details from Ms. Smith’s presentation

 Checklist for Success

• Make sure you do the following to end up in the “wildly successful”, A-range category.
• Wildly successful (A-range):
  1. Models: this infographic, this infographic, this interactive image, and this collage
  2. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  3. Images came from sources listed above
  4. Strong, obvious attempt to create an appealing visual theme
  5. Images chosen carefully to go along with visual theme and to be as visually appealing as possible
  6. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, and includes dates served, nutrition facts, and origin of the local produce.
  7. Text is easy to read
• Moderately successful (B/C-range):
  1. Completed collage, infographic, or interactive image
  2. Images came from sources listed above
  3. Images somewhat appealing; evidence of some attempt made to create visual theme.
  4. Text information included is helpful and descriptive, but doesn’t include everything listed in the wildly successful model.
  5. Text is somewhat hard to read
• Not so successful (C or lower-range):
  1. Incomplete graphic
  2. Little effort put into creating visual theme
  3. Images from sources other than those listed
  4. Minimal text that provides little information
  5. Text is hard to read