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Unit Plan
ACT360 Media

Act Den: Microsoft Front Page 98 Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you looking to learn the basics of web page design with Microsoft FrontPage 98? This fun and educational tutorial offers interactive activities and quizzes. The tutorial covers: introduction to FrontPage, creating your first website,...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Gif (Graphics Interchange Format)

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia entry that defines a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) graphics file and explains how and why it was created. Sections of the article include history, Unisys and LZW patent enforcement, usage, color, alternatives,...
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Lesson Plan
University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury; Cs Unplugged: Text Compression

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learn how compressed formats such as zip, gzip, or gif images are all based on a method called Ziv-Lempel coding, which turns out to be an interesting exercise in finding patterns in text.
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Website
Other

Elated Communications: Understanding Image Formats

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial looks at the three common image formats used on the web: GIF, JPEG and PNG. You'll learn how these image formats work, and where to use each type of image in your web pages.
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Article
Other

Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
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Handout
Other

University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...
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Website
Other

Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.