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COpyCat CHaLLenGe
media type="custom" key="11529742" Each week on the first day of the week, students will participate in a Copycat Challenge. Students should come in on Monday, log in, go to the Challenge of the Week, open Pages and select a new BLANK LAYOUT/CANVAS. You should be able to see the challenge and your Pages file at the same time.

When the teacher says "GO," students will race to see who can replicate the challenge first. The winners of the challenge will share with their classmates how to solve the challenge. Challenges start easy at the beginning of the trimester, but then get increasingly complex. Use tools in the formatting bar and in the inspector. There are often multiple ways to get the same results.

Unlike in other classroom activities, students should NOT help one another. The purpose of this activity is for students to learn how to figure out the challenges on their own. The skill of thinking critically and experimenting with a software tool is something that will help in the future.

You can use Pages for word processing. But did you know that you could use pages to...
 * Create a movie poster
 * Create a DVD jacket
 * Create a tri-fold travel brochure
 * Create a logo
 * Create a book cover
 * Create art
 * Create images for use in an animation or stop motion movie

These video tutorials will help you learn how to use the advanced tools in Pages.
 * 1) Template Chooser
 * 2) Templates and Placeholders
 * 3) Text Box
 * 4) Shape Tool
 * 5) Color Fill, Line, Gradient Fill, Magnifying Glass
 * 6) Image Fill, Shadow, Shape Mask
 * 7) Background, Arrange, Mask, Frame
 * 8) Instant Alpha Tool

Other Helpful Tutorials
 * 1) Apple's Pages Tutorials

This example will have you try Instant Alpha tool to remove the background in an image, show you how to use the Masking tool to control how much of a picture to include, and show you the graphic inspector to add shadows and picture frames.
 * Download the images included.
 * Open Pages (on a Mac).
 * Watch the video.
 * Try it yourself!

Sky Background Charlie Brown and Snoopy Video: Using INSTANT ALPHA and MASK Tools in Pages