Multimedia Oct 29th

We are halfway through the semester, at this point, everyone has had plenty of time to get their locker situation taken care of. Asking and reminding hasn't worked, so this is notification that detentions will be the next step as of Monday. All you need for this class is your planner. Keep all candy, food, or backpacks in your lockers.

Spectrometry Lab!

Updated CMYK, RGB & Light Slideshow from previous class.

View it if you would like a refresher.

You will be working in groups of four. Listen for details.

Docs: Color Samples Document - Spectrometry Questions Document

Photoshop!

Finished? Start learning about photoshop!

Beginning Photoshop Tutorials

Yearbook Oct. 28th

We are halfway through the semester, at this point, everyone has had plenty of time to get their locker situation taken care of. Asking and reminding hasn't worked, so this is notification that detentions will be the next step as of Monday. All you need for this class is your planner. Keep all candy, food, or backpacks in your lockers.

1st- Discussion

2nd- Work on your pages or in your area. Your first page is due at the end of this grading period, thats next friday :o

Confused about page design? Look at Examples of Theme Integration.

3rd- Daily Blog Post

Multimedia Oct 27th

We are halfway through the semester, at this point, everyone has had plenty of time to get their locker situation taken care of. Asking and reminding hasn't worked, so this is notification that detentions will be the next step as of Monday. All you need for this class is your planner. Keep all candy, food, or backpacks in your lockers.

If you haven't yet, finish your numbers document of RGB, CMYK, and Hex codes from last time.

Today, iPhoto Challenge!

Can you take the source photo and end up with a very similar product? Post your before and after on your blog. Tell me what edits I made and what effects I used to make the changes.

Can you apply similar changes to another image?

Post your before and after on your blog.

Don't forget to source your images.

Jonathan Kendrick. "Native Dancer." Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. HAAP Media Ltd, a Subsidiary of Getty Images, 26 Aug. 2008. Web. 5 Feb. 2007. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/713435.

Yearbook Oct. 26th

We are halfway through the semester, at this point, everyone has had plenty of time to get their locker situation taken care of. Asking and reminding hasn't worked, so this is notification that detentions will be the next step as of Monday. All you need for this class is your planner. Keep all candy, food, or backpacks in your lockers.

Things do get moved around, find your initials, don't assume.

It is also color coded now based on what the photographic style for the sections will be. Problem? Come see me!

Seth Godin's Seven Kinds of Broken

Watch: Seth Godin: This is Broken

Some of the stuff in this video is applicable to your individual positions, to yearbook in general, to your pages, and to selling books, content, ads, and etc. Watch it and keep some of these in mind.

What page are you doing? Which of these could apply? Is your page for a group that you're not part of? If so, how can you prevent it from being broken? Maybe you should come into contact with people of that group.

You will be, and should be, working on one of your pages. Need a designer, photographer, digital artist, etc? Check the whiteboard. Your page is due at the end of the six weeks (thats the friday after this, that really isn't much time). Make sure it is quality.

Don't forget your daily blog post! Reflect on the video and your page.

Multimedia Oct 25th.

Progress Reports

You might be a sad panda if:
- you haven't been checking the blog each class
- you haven't been posting in your blog each class
- you haven't been posting quality each post
- you've been off task on several occasions

Zajdowicz, Margan. "Panda in the Green." Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. HAAP Media Ltd, a Subsidiary of Getty Images, 18 Aug. 2008. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1060559.

Part One - iPhoto
Using video tutorials, learn how to modify images with iPhoto. Take a free stock photo, and using iphoto manipulate it. On your blog show both the original and your final edit. Don't forget to source the photo.

Click here to see the original image.

Wolak, Kuba. "Ribbons." Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. HAAP Media Ltd, a Subsidiary of Getty Images, 18 Aug. 2008. Web. 25 Oct. 2010. http://www.sxc.hu/photo/555790.

Part Two - Hex Codes, RGB, and CMYK

After the short powerpoint presentation, download the numbers file and follow the directions in it using the calculators linked below:

Numbers File

Easy RGB

Color Conversion

Color Conversion Calculator

Play with the calculators above. Each calculator gives the same data, use whichever you find the most useful. Notice, red is already filled out for you. Can you figure out where I got those numbers? Try recreating red to figure out where they all came from in the calculators. I would recommend skipping orange and coming back to it, it is one of the harder ones.

Don't forget to follow the direction in the document. This includes writing about Hex Codes, RGB, and CMYK, as well as a spectrometer. Didn't do that? Go back and pay closer attention!

Need additional help? Ask me, a friend, or google it!

Yearbook Today!

Progress Reports

You might be a sad panda if:
- you haven't been checking the blog each class
- you haven't been posting in your blog each class
- you haven't been posting quality each post
- you've been off task on several occasions

Studio Works Pop Quiz :O

I hope you were paying attention last class~ Go to your page in StudioWorks which you are NOT working on for this six weeks.

If you have a page on the right hand side, recreate this page.

If you have a page on the left hand side, recreate this page.

Save it, then take a screenshot of it and upload it into your blog.

When completed, work in your areas or on your page for this six weeks (should not be the one for the quiz).

Don't Forget Your Daily Blog Post!!

Multimedia Today!

Complete your Pages Project; due Friday Oct. 22nd.

Make sure all three parts of your project are top quality.
Need to tune up part of it? Do it before its too late.

Updated Examples: Primary Document + Brochure

Rubrics: Main Document + Brochure + Itinerary

Make sure you have both your primary document and brochure on your blog, and that they are viewable if you log out of your google docs account. Late penalty is a bad way to start on a project.


Google Earth!
If you didn't get to play with google earth much last class, you might need to check out some of the previous post for some of the more basic info on Google Earth. Check out the two example tours. The Apollo 11 one shows how much can be done with Google Earth when someone really masters it.

What to do on Google Earth today?
Create a Google Earth Tour of your country.

Examples of Tours:

Very Basic Tour:

Discovery's Planet Earth

Very Impressive Tour:

Sean Askay's Apollo 11

(embedded as a flash applet on a blog; has sound, turn your speakers on)

(if it doesn't load up in safari, try firefox)

Help Making Your Tour:
Google Earth in the Classroom
How to Create a Simple Tour
Touring Places

Yearbook Today!

First: Blog Edit

Go into the Design tab of your blog and add a new gadget toy our blog. Any gadget? No! If you look on the left side of my blog and scroll down you'll notice the new gadget of recent comments. Add this same gadget to yours. It will make it easier for you to see the most recent comments on your blog. How do you add the most recent comments? When you're adding the gadget, at the top of the new gadget window, search 'recent comments'.

Second

1- YB Pages

If you don't have your pages yet, come see me. If you haven't made a studio works account yet, you may also see me at this time.

You are responsible for two pages. In a way, you are the contractor for them. You have to make sure the layout for it gets done, suitable pictures are taken, the pictures are edited accordingly, the captions and writing match the content and are of good quality. The overall page quality is your responsibility. Examples of Theme Integration.

Each page will count as a project grade. One for this six weeks, the second page for next six weeks. Look here for your initials in bold.

You do not choose a random page and start playing, you should be on the page that the ladder shows. If the ladder says page 45, you should be on page 45. Also, sometimes two pages (a spread) opens at once, if you only have page 45, you do not also play on 44.

Start thinking about how you will get everything together. Which designer will prep the layout? Where will the photos need to come from? Which digital artist will touch them up? Who will write write the captions and content? Keep in mind the theme of photography through time. Toward the front of the book will have a more dated feel, toward the back will be more modern (more information on that later). Plan now and be ahead.

Are your initials not there? :O

Then we couldn't find your page preferences :(

Go talk to your instructor!

2- Individual Areas

Photographers and Digital Artists

Before you begin anything else, we need to have a pow-wow.

Down time? Here are a few more tutorials:

Vintage Effect - Technicolor Effect - Hand-Coloring - Advanced Masking

Designers
Learn the Studio Works Software. First things first, we have to make you an account. Come see me an we'll set it up. Click here to go to Studio Works once you have an account. Start playing with the two pages you have, learn how to insert text, images, and etc into the page. By the bookcases we have some resources to help you. Utilize those, and if your still having trouble, let me know.

Marketers
Continue marketing goals.

ID Staff
A day- Continue working on the website.

B day- Come see me and we'll get your s>works accounts created.

Writers and Caption Writers
See me and we can setup your Studio Works accounts. Start thinking about your pages and what you need to do for them. Start thinking about who is going to design the page, whos going to edit your photos, what writing will be on them, etc. If you have writing you can work on, you can do that when you finish.

3- Daily Blog Reflection

Are you blogging daily (as in everyday)?

You should be, its part of your grade :o

Don't be sad later. Blog today, blog everyday.

Multimedia Today

Complete your Pages Project; due Friday.

Make sure all three parts of your project are upto snuff.
Need to tune up part of it? Do it before its too late.

Updated Examples: Primary Document + Brochure

Rubrics: Main Document + Brochure + Itinerary

I'm done. I get to play games now.
Nope! There's always more productive things you could be doing.
You can play games on the weekend, or at home.

Check out Google Earth. It is installed on your computer.
What's Google Earth? Find out!

Search your computer for Google Earth, load it up, and get started.
Not sure what it can do? Find out!

Do you know how to create place-marks and polygons in Google Earth?
Figure it out, and see if you can find some of the big sights from the trip you designed.
You can even set the camera angle for your place-marks.

By the way: If you didn't know, Google Earth is free. You can download it at home if you'd like to play with it more. There's all sorts of things it can be use for, and lots more you can learn about it that we won't be doing in class. Check out Google's Guide to Google Earth, Google's Tutorials, and
Google's Showcase some other time. The Google Earth Blog has some impressive stuff too. They make use of youtube videos though, so alot of it you can't do here. Sorry!

Yearbook Oct 15th

0- Family Day

Did you go? Did you take pictures?

1- YB Pages

The link below has been updated. Check your initials again(first two letters of your first name and first letter(s) of your last name). You should have two pages. If you're not on there, come see me.

You are responsible for these two pages. In a way, you are the contractor for them. You have to make sure the layout for it gets done, suitable pictures are taken, the pictures are edited accordingly, the captions and writing match the content and are of good quality. The overall page quality is your responsibility.

Each page will count as a project grade. One for this six weeks, the second page for next six weeks. Look here for your initials in bold.

Start thinking about how you will get everything together. Which designer will prep the layout? Where will the photos need to come from? Which digital artist will touch them up? Who will write write the captions and content? Keep in mind the theme of photography through time. Toward the front of the book will have a more dated feel, toward the back will be more modern (more information on that later). Plan now and be ahead.

Are your initials not there? :O

Then we couldn't find your page preferences :(

Go talk to your instructor!

2- Individual Areas

Digital Artists
If you didn't finish the Dagueereotype last time, then finish it today.

Were you able to accomplish it? Here are a few other tutorials if so:

Photocrome Postcard - 2Color Technicolor - 2Color Technicolor - Antique Look

Designers
Learn the Studio Works Software. First things first, we have to make you an account. Come see me an we'll set it up. Click here to go to Studio Works once you have an account. Start playing with the two pages you have, learn how to insert text, images, and etc into the page. By the bookcases we have some resources to help you. Utilize those, and if your still having trouble, let me know.

Marketers
Continue marketing goals.

ID Staff
A day- Continue working on the website.

B day- Come see me and we'll get your s>works accounts created.

Photographers
Take photos of students in the halls, at that locker, in the courtyard, anywhere you see someone not currently in class. But don't distract them! Just try to get as many candid shots as you can. If you did this already, there are two different things for you to do. One is to setup your studioworks account, and start uploading photos(only the best ones), the other is to look through the new photography book I got last weekend.

Writers and Caption Writers
See me and we can setup your Studio Works accounts. Start thinking about your pages and what you need to do for them. Start thinking about who is going to design the page, whos going to edit your photos, what writing will be on them, etc. If you have writing you can work on, you can do that when you finish.

3- Daily Blog Reflection

Are you blogging daily (as in everyday)?

You should be, its part of your grade :o

Don't be sad later. Blog today, blog everyday.

Multimedia Oct 15th

Today today today

Go into the Design tab of your blog and add a new gadget toy our blog. Any gadget? No! If you look on the left side of my blog and scroll down you'll notice the new gadget of recent comments. Add this same gadget to yours. It will make it easier for you to see the most recent comments on your blog. How do you add the most recent comments? When you're adding the gadget, at the top of the new gadget window, search 'recent comments'.

Keep working on your Pages Project; due Friday Oct 22nd.

We are in the last stretch of the project. You should be working on the itinerary and the conclusion, and updating the bibliography as you go along.

The first two deadlines were checkpoints, making sure you were able to get that part finished and uploaded properly. At the final deadline, each part of the project will be graded, the brochure, itinerary, and main document. Finished with the itinerary? Go back and check if you can improve any of the previous parts of the project.

Updated Examples: Primary Document + Brochure

Rubrics: Main Document + Brochure + Itinerary

Blog check tomorrow.

Whats being looked at?

- Is your blog safe? No names, locations, or anything else that gives away who you are or where you live.

- Is your blog appropriate?

- Daily Posts. The bulk of the grade; how frequently and to what caliber have you been posting for this six weeks?

Yearbook Oct 13

0- Are you sitting in your new spot? You should be.

1- YB Pages

READ ALL THIS WALL OF TEXT! IT IS IMPORTANT!

CAPS IS TO SIGNIFY IMPORTANCE, NOT YELLING!

MAYBE A LITTLE YELLING...

The link below has the current ladder (arrangement and order of pages within the yearbook) along with the first couple letters of your first name and last name. Out of your two assigned pages, we tried to make sure you'd be happy with at least one of them.

You are responsible for these two pages. In a way, you are the contractor for them. You have to make sure the layout for it gets done, suitable pictures are taken, the pictures are edited accordingly, the captions and writing match the content and are of good quality. The overall page quality is your responsibility.

Each page will count as a project grade. One for this six weeks, the second page for next six weeks. Look here for your initials in bold.

Start thinking about how you will get everything together. Which designer will prep the layout? Where will the photos need to come from? Which digital artist will touch them up? Who will write write the captions and content? Keep in mind the theme of photography through time. Toward the front of the book will have a more dated feel, toward the back will be more modern (more information on that later). Plan now and be ahead.

Are your initials not there? :O

Then we couldn't find your page preferences :(

Go talk to your instructor!

2- Individual Areas

Digital Artists
Did you finish designing you t-shirt design? The design needs to be saved as a high resolution Jpeg, probably approximately around 2000 x 2000 pixels. Make sure you emailed it to me.

Complete? Master this tutorial on Dagueereotypes. Thats the only tutorial for right now. Master it. Really, master it, for real.

Designers
Lets get you started on learning the Studio Works Software. First things first, we have to make you an account. Come see me an we'll set it up. Click here to go to Studio Works once you have an account.

Marketers
Continue marketing goals.

ID Staff
Continue working on the website.

Photographers
Take photos of students in the halls, at that locker, in the courtyard, anywhere you see someone not currently in class. But don't distract them! Just try to get as many candid shots as you can.

Writers and Caption Writers
Start working on what you can write.

3- Daily Blog Reflection

Are you blogging daily?

You should be, its part of your grade :o

Don't be sad later. Blog today, blog everyday.

4- Blog Check!

Blog check tomorrow.

Whats being looked at?

- Is your blog safe? No names, locations, or anything else that gives away who you are or where you live.

- Is your blog appropriate?

- Daily Posts. The bulk of the grade; how frequently and to what caliber have you been posting for this six weeks?

Multimedia Today!

Continue working on your Pages Project.

We are in the last stretch of the project.

You should be working on the itinerary and the conclusion, and updating the bibliography as you go along.

My example: Primary Document

Yearbook Oct. 8th

0- Are you sitting in your new spot? You should be.

1- Popshow was this weekend!

Were you there? Did you take photos, jot down information about it, get quotes?

Were you at the rehearsal for Popshow? Even better for pictures and quotes of the cast.

2- YB Pages

Look here for your initials in bold and italics. These are the pages you are responsible for.

Are your initials not there? :O

Come see me to find out why!!

Your initials on there? Start thinking about how you will get everything together. Which designer will prep the layout? Where will the photos need to come from? Which digital artist will touch them up? Who will write write the captions and content? Plan now and be ahead.

3- Individual Areas

Digital Artists and Designers
Finish designing you t-shirt design. The design needs to be saved as a high resolution Jpeg, probably approximately around 2000 x 2000 pixels.

Marketers
Continue marketing goals.

ID Staff
Continue working on the website.

Photographers
Look into pinhole cameras. How do they work? What would you need to make one?

Writers and Caption Writers
Start working on what you can write.

4- Daily Blog Reflection

Are you blogging daily?

You should be, its part of your grade :o

Don't be sad later, blog today.

Multimedia Oct 8th

Complete your Brochure

Rubric for the Brochure

What's due?

Updated Work Log & Bibliography + Introduction and Brochure

My examples: Document and Brochure

Upload it as a PDF on your blog.

Finished already? Start working on your itinerary.

Yearbook Oct 6!

Are you sitting in your new spot? You should be.

Report Card Pickup is Tonight!

Who can be here and sit at the yearbook table?

Popshow is tomorrow night!

Will you be there? Take photos, jot down information about it, get quotes.

Are you at the rehearsal for Popshow? Even better for pictures and quotes of the cast.

Digital Artists and Designers
Tshirts! We were going to order tshirts for class from imagemarket.
However... we can't :(

We need each of you to design a tshirt for Yearbook. You have today and next period to create a design. Take a look at the designs at imagemarket (Yearbook designs are in the Journalism section) and other sources if you need. There are a couple catches; the design needs to be something that appeals to both genders and all the grades. In addition, notice the t-shirts limit themselves to 1-3 solid colors. We need to do the same to be able to afford the shirts.

Marketers
Continue marketing goals.

ID Staff
Practice with IDing. Come see me and I'll explain.

Photographers
Can you figure out how to take photos for HDR on the point-and-shoots? Look up how to take HDR photography and see if it can be done.

You can also find out how to make a pinhole camera, and we might later on. Take a look into that if you have extra time.

Writers and Caption Writers
Some links to check out:
Yearbook writing - Yearbook Interviews - Writing Headlines - Writing Captions - Best Practices for Copy Writing

Come see me if you have a chance, and we can talk about some of the content that you can start writing.

Yearbook Oct 4

1- Theme

Your editor, advisor, and director of photography have prepared a powerpoint for you concerning the theme. This should give you a better idea of the theme's focus.

View it here. (mirror)

How can you help establish the theme through your position? Which historical style interests you the most? Why?

2- Current Events

Pop Show and Spaghetti Dinner this weekend (or maybe spaghetti dinner was changed to next week). Going to be there? Whether you are, or are not, how will you contribute to capturing these events in the yearbook?

3- Job Specific

Photographers: Go through the current photos taken, and first sort them into the folders they go into. Next choose the five (5) you think are best of each category, and drop them into the keep file. (the photos are on my flash drive, you will need to come see me.

Writers & captions: Create a form for Student/Parent ads for the yearbook. These are often seen in the back of yearbooks, and allow parent's to express their pride and celebration of their student's success. Finished? Look over it again, can any improvements be made? Is there anything else that needs to be fixed? Misspellings, typos, grammar issues? Have a peer look over and edit it as well. Needed complete by the end of today!

Marketers: Continue marketing goals.

Posters and Parent-ads ready for report card pick-up night; this happens this Thursday! AND they have to be signed off by our directors. So... they must be ready by wednesday!!!

Digital Artists:

Cross-Processing Retro-Design Old-Photo Effect

ID Staff: A day? Continue working on website.

B day? Come see me.

Designers:

Keep playing with Pages. We'll be moving to more complicated software soon. Need some short video tutorials? Check out Apple's tutorials. Lynda also has some free video tutorials.

Don't forget to blog about what you did today!

Multimedia, Oct 4

Examples of Work

I've had a few different people take a look over some of your work. There were a few things about a couple of them that caught a peoples' attention more than others. Can you tell what?

Blogs:

Doodle's Blog Emerald's Blog Pahloolah's Blog Sammi-js' Blog

Projects-Part 1:

Australia Argentina Azerbaijan Italy Madagascar

Continue working on your Brochures. You should be able to finish them up this week.