micaelmas 1st half term

WEEK 1Google Maps & Right

Move

1. GOOGLE MAPSSatellite, distance and street view

Google Map Basics (1)

• Find the following places on Google Maps (use the snipping tool in Satellite view to prove you have been there). You may need to type in the city!• Great Pyramid of Giza, Cairo

• Hampton Court Maze, London

• Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Madrid

• Epcot, Florida

• St Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

Google Map Basics (2)

• Complete the following table

Start From Finish At Distance Car

Time by car

Distance walk

Time walking

Gwyddelwern Betws Gwerfil Goch

Vindolanda Trust

Hexham

St Paul’s Cathedral

Westminster Abbey

Cardiff City Stadium

Millennium Stadium

St Mark’s Basilica

Rialto Bridge

Google Map Basics (3)

• Visit the following places and provide street view evidence that you have been there:• Reichstagsgebäude, Berlin

• Palace of Versailles, Versailles

• North Sydney Olympic Swimming Pool, Sydney

• Niagra Falls

• Tiananmen Square, Beijing

2. RIGHT MOVESatellite, distance and street view

DRAW A SEARCH

• In this section, you will find a plot of empty land on which you are going to build your dream house.

• Go to http://www.rightmove.co.uk/draw-a-search.html

• Find an area of Britain that you would like to live (use zoom in/out)

• Click on the map to draw an area

• Click on View Properties

• Adjust the location and criteria on the left (Property = Land; Price <£1mill)

• Click on the House and select Street View

Perfect Location

• Save into OneNote the details of your top 3 properties

• Now go back to google maps and try and research the area using Street and Satellite views

• By the end of the lesson, make sure that you have chosen your land to purchase

• Remember that it can be anywhere in the UK

WEEK 2Blueprints

3-4. BLUEPRINTSDesigning your dream house

Designing your dream house (1)

• For ideas, type “house plans” or “house blueprints” into Google images

• Now write down the following before starting your own plan• Number of floors

• Number of bedrooms

• Number of bathrooms

• List of other rooms

• Number of garages

• Garden features

Designing your dream house (2)

• Spend the rest of the lesson designing your new home

• Make sure that the final plans are ready for next lesson

• You must include measurements for room lengths x widths x height

WEEKS 3-4

Building

5. FLOORPLANNER

Bringing your new home to life

Floorplanner

• Go to http://floorplanner.com and create a new account with school email

• This video has been created by another teacher for her students

Floorplanner – Official Videos

• The floorplanner channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/Floorplanner

6-8. BUILDINGBuilding your dream house

Points to remember

• Include your dimensions

• Match your building to your blueprints

• Make sure that you SAVE your work REGULARLY!

• Make sure furniture is to scale

• Regularly check that the 3D view works

• Refer to floorplanner channel for help

• Use the floorplanner tutorial for help http://floorplanner.com/demo#tutorial

WEEK 5Feedback &

Improvements

9-10. IMPROVINGFinishing your dream house

Feedback & Improvements

• Use this week to give feedback from at least two of your class

• Make sure that the comments have been added to OneNote

• Ensure that you provide feedback to at least two of your class

• Ensure that your feedback is added into their OneNote

WEEK 6Logo Research &

Design

11. LOGOLogo research and draft design

Logo Research

• Add the logos for the following estate agents to your notes:• Moginie James

• Jeffrey Ross

• Morgan Lloyd Williams

• Savills

• Peter Alan

• Kelvin Francis

• Thomas George

• Chris John

• Type up your thoughts about the logos including but not limited to:

• Colours

• Similarities

• Differences

• Effectiveness

• Obvious as an estate agent

• Formal?

• Professional?

Logo Design

• Based on your previous research, sketch out a design for your own logo

• Make sure that you get and provide evidence of feedback received

• Based on feedback, improve your logo design.

12. LOGOCompleting your final design

Finishing your logo

• Try more than one of the following websites to create your logo:• http://www.designmantic.com

• http://www.flamingtext.co.uk/logos

• http://www.tweak.com/customize-logo.htm

• http://logotypecreator.com/

• Make sure that you give and receive feedback with at least two others

WEEK 7Business Stationery

13. Business Card & LetterheadPreparing to market your house

Creating a business card

• Type “business cards” into Google images to see what business cards look like

• Sketch out a design for your business card

• Using MS Publisher create your own business card (use a template if you wish)

Creating a letterhead

• Type “letterheads” into Google images to see what letterheads look like

• Sketch out a design for your letterhead

• Using MS Publisher create your own letterhead (use a template if you wish)

14. HOUSE DETAILS

Preparing the fine details

Researching marketing literature

• Type in “House brochure” into Google images to see what others have included

• Draft a description of the outside areas of your house (Street View)

• Draft a description of each of your rooms, including dimensions

• Take a screen print using floorplanner to show what your rooms look like

WEEK 8House Brochure

House Brochure

• Use two lessons to create and finish your House Brochure

• Make sure that you get and give feedback for at least two others

• Make sure feedback is recorded