Year 7 Junior Publisher Criterion A

Unit Title: Junior Publisher

Key Concept

Connections are links, bonds and relationships among people, objects, organisms or ideas.

Global Context and Explorations

Personal and cultural expressions

Statement of Inquiry

Designers adapt the form in which information is communicated in order to make it accessible to the end user.

Inquiry Questions

• What publishing techniques have made the greatest impact in publishing?
• Do digital tools determine what is published?
• Is it true that digital publishing tools provides more freedom to publishers?

Criterion A: Inquiring and Analyzing

Strand 1: Identify a client with a problem and justify

Client examples:- the person/organization/group of people who is passionate about a culture you are researching e.g. your father.
Problem examples:- conserving the culture, storing the culture etc.
Justify example:- the Maasai culture is an important tourist attraction and revenue generator  and should be conserved for future generations.

Example of Strand 1

My client Mr Lang’at is a Kalenjin  who lives in Kericho Kenya. He is very passionate about the  Kalenjin culture. Kalenjin are highland nilotes who live in Rift Valley Kenya. The problem my client is facing is that the Kalenjin culture has been fading away because of modernization and my client Mr. Lang’at would like assistance in storing and communicating of the Kalenjin culture so that the future generations of Kenyans can be able to learn about it and also so as to preserve the Kalenjin’s way of life free from western influence.

Strand 2: Research Plan

• Come up with a research plan.
• Your research plan should look like the one displayed in the table below
• You MUST have AT LEAST 8 PRIORITIES

Strand 3: Analyze a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the problem (Max 2 pages)

• Analyze three different free online magazine builders looking at the advantages and disadvantages  e.g flipsnack, joomag e.t.c
• Analyze two online magazines created to solve a particular problem and look for any IT skills from the magazines that you can borrow and use.
• Choose one online magazine builder from the three above that you will use and justify

Strand 4: Develop a detailed design brief which summarizes the analysis of relevant research

Summarize strand 1:- mention who your client was, the problem and effect of the problem (problem around the culture i.e. awareness, preserving, documenting the culture etc.) in a paragraph.

Summarize strand 2:- give feedback/answers found in your research. Mention relevant areas of your research plan (a few answers in primary source and a few answers in secondary source)

Summarize strand 3:- mention the software that you researched on and the chosen one. Justify why you chose it.

Bibliography:- put bibliography at the end.

Example of Summary of Strand 1

Mr Ali is a Swahili elder living in Bombolulu. He is keen to have Swahili culture stored for future generation. He has never had a better place to store the culture apart from a few videos found on YouTube which do not share the full culture of the Swahili people. Due to this lack of a good IT tool to store the Swahili culture, many youths and even old have missed out on key areas of the culture for example food, dresses, dance, language, religion etc.

Example of Summary of Strand 2

After conducting a research with my client , it was clear that Swahili culture is rich of values that need to be stored for future generations. There language is rich with many dialects for example Digos, Giriamas, Durumas etc. The kind of food they eat have coconut mixed with them for example potatoes, beans and rice. All these need to be well documented and stored for future generations. 

Example of Summary of Strand 3

There were different online magazine builders. Some of those which I researched on included joomag, flipsnack and flipbooks. I enjoyed using flipsnack because it was free, easy to add pages, easy to add text and background and the most amazing part of it was when I could add videos and music to support my text. I will use joomag to create my client’s magazine because my client needs a magazine which will have text, images, videos, music and animations which joomag provides for free. The link can be shared to many and can be accessed on all operating systems i.e desktops, laptops, phones etc