Yearbook

Finished with all your finals?
Have nothing to do?

Try out this Google Earth Puzzle from the Atlantic's In Focus.

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Check your grades! Check your blog! 
Check below and see what your missing!! 
Need help? Confused? Ask for help!


What should be on your Blog for this six weeks??


Self-Determined Project:
 - Identify your Problem
 - Design Brief
 - Design Spec
 - Plan
 - Evaluation
 - Citations
 - Completed Project (If its flash, you need to show it to me)


Portfolio
 - Citations
 - Evaluation
 - Completed Project (Can upload these to the blog, so you'll show this to me)


due first 3 weeks
due second 3 weeks


Many of you have not posted your citations or evaluations. This makes for some very sad grades!! Please fix this, so I can grade them!


ALSO!
Mrs. Lindig is collecting works of art to go on display over the summer. If you have a piece of digital work you've done that you think may qualify, let me know!

Yearbook Final

Final instructions are live during the yearbook class.

Yearbook

For the final, you will be creating a composite video in iMovie. You'll be making a video with someone talking to the camera with b-roll. What is b-roll? Basically, you've got someone talking to the camera, and while they are still talking you begin to see other footage or images. Here's an example with some b-roll from CBS news. In case YouTube is still blocked, here's an non-youtube example. Notice how the footage goes from people talking to images of what they are talking about. That's use of b-roll, and that's what we are looking for on the QR content.

iMovie is pretty simple, and apple has very short tutorials on it if you need. Most the tutorial videos are only a couple of minutes long. Start getting familiar with iMovie if you've never used it. A tutorial on how to create b-roll in iMovie will be provided by one of your peers in the near future.

For the yearbook final, you will be creating a video composite in iMovie for the QR codes. The QR codes will make use of b-roll.

Instructions
Example of three
These are examples of good quality videos. Creating two good quality videos of this caliber took the creators less than half the period.

first, download video and photos

Second: Use the student created tutorial below to create b-roll

Learn how to do this in iMovie

Not sure if its good? Ask!

Part of grade is based on quality.

Finish 1 video = D
Finish 2 videos = C - B-
Finish 3 videos = B

Quality can increase these
A- = Three total, two of good Quality
A+ = Three of good quality

Third: In iMovie, in the "Share" Menu at the top of the screen, choose "Export using Quicktime..."


Forth: Upload the finished file into google.docs, dropbox, or etc and share it with me

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You don't have to watch these, but for those of you wanting to expand your abilities in Dreamweaver, this may be of interest to you.


More Dreamweaver Help
Youtube Videos
- Use Dreamweaver to Create Simple Webpages google.doc link
- How to use tables in Dreamweaver google.doc link
- Advanced Tables google.doc link
- Creating Table Based Layouts google.doc link

Sorry guys, apparently youtube has been blocked again. You'll have to download the file from google.docs for now. The files are big, they may take a little while to download.

Robotics Final Rubric

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The course won't be available until the day of,

however, you can use the rubric to see some of 

the skills you'll need for it.

Yearbook

For the yearbook final, as mentioned prior, you will be creating a video composite in iMovie for the QR codes. The QR codes will make use of b-roll.

Learn how to do this in iMovie:
link 1

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Using Flash?
Other students found this tutorial here pretty helpful.

Dreamweaver Users: Another example of how a website could be broken down into how it could be reconstructed via tables.

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I didn't label each and every row and column. Hopefully you're starting to catch on. You may notice in there, that sometimes there's just one column inside of a row. That's just how tables work. You cant just have a row- You have to have columns, even if that means you're only putting one column in. Of course, dreamweaver does all of that for you...

Oops! Some of the tables extend a bit further down in that picture. I didn't notice the scrollbar on the right side when drawing on the screenshot. Hopefully you get the idea though. If the image is confusing to you, let me know and I'll help you understand it better.

By the way, Dreamweaver can not make graphics or images for you. You will need to make whatever images you want for your layout in a different program and then save them in JPG(recommended) or GIF format, as these are the most widely readable formats across computer types, operating systems, and browsers. You may use whatever program you would like to create imagery for your layout. Remember, any borrowed imagery from the web must be royalty free.

examples of portfolio sites that could be built using tables: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17

Dreamweaver Resources

• Dreamweaver Tutorial Videos
• Color Scheme Designer
• Dreamweaver Tutorial (skip section 1)
• Lynda.com Video Tutorials CS4 Getting Started
• Lynda.com Video Tutorials CS4 Creating Your First Website
• Lynda.com Video Tutorials CS4 Essential Training

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Most of you are now working on your website. If you hadn't already, make sure that you have everything on the previous project on your blog. I hadn't specifically mentioned it before, but make sure you have your evaluation of your work up as well.

We haven't really talked about product testing this year, ask me for feedback and for now we'll consider that product testing.

Creating a website
You guys should be currently working on creating a portfolio website of your work from through ought the year.

Something I wanted to mention is tables. If you are working on a website in dreamweaver, tables are a new or some-what experienced web designer's best friend. Tables are an easy way for new or moderately experienced web designers to build website layouts. There are a lot of other options now too, but tables were the standard with the web was first emerging, and is still a pretty widely used way of creating a layout. There are a lot of people who speak out against it now, and with some of the newer software, there are other options. I wouldn't recommend newer methods for new / amateur web designers (or students just starting to play with these ideas).

A table is composed of rows and columns. Rows go side to side (left to right), and columns are vertical (up to down). Basically, a table is a bunch of boxes. Tables don't have to look like boxes though, the boxes can be invisible. The shape a position of these boxes can be used to contain different things. Sort of like a giant book case, dresser, or entertainment system- a bunch of boxes to organize and contain your things.

To create a website layout with tables, you'll need to use the insert menu in dreamweaver to insert a table. If you highlight multiple cells with your cursor, you can merge cells. Just about any website layout can be create with a table.

Lets look at how my blog could be broken down into a simple table.

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I'll show more examples later.

Yearbook

Having trouble in Yearbook? Need some extra credit? or just want to try for a higher grade?
Interview someone. Capture video of them talking about one of the events for the QR codes. We're wanting video of people talking or reminiscing positively about an event. Ask for more information.

Continue working on current assignments. For the final, you will be creating a composite video in iMovie. You'll be making a video with someone talking to the camera with b-roll. What is b-roll? Basically, you've got someone talking to the camera, and while they are still talking you begin to see other footage or images. Here's an example with some b-roll from CBS news from the tornados in Texas last month.

iMovie is pretty simple, and apple has very short tutorials on it if you need. Most the tutorial videos are only a couple of minutes long. Start getting familiar with iMovie if you've never used it. A tutorial on how to create b-roll in iMovie will be provided by one of your peers in the near future.

Yearbook

Your Final:

Help with QR Codes

-Create composite video in iMovie (more info to come)

-Or other projects (needs approval)

Assignments for remainder of six weeks:

• 16 YB Specification Questions (see previous post)
• OoC
• 3 Week Report of event or happening
• checkpoint grade end of next week

Assignments from last three weeks:

• 10 examples of a photo-compositional technique
• Commercial or music track for QR Codes
• Self-determined Project that can help YB
• OoC
• 3 Week Report of event or happening
• checkpoint grade friday

A Link for Nicole
Got information from this organization yesterday. All sorts of Journalism type work can be entered into them. Thinking of submitting some stuff for the individual awards... Check out the previous winners for photography, I'd like to submit a few of yours. Was thinking the leaping dancers from over the weekend for a sports photo (and maybe one of Austin's from Soccer), and some of your other ones for Feature Picture and Environmental Portrait (or any other ideas you have). In addition, they also have some other great examples of work and design you may find worth sharing with next year's staff.

Quiz Grade

I'm not here most of the day (wednesday- helping with field trip, thursday- helping with eoc's). That means today is a quiz grade. Forgot to do this last time we were testing as I didn't have an actual sub. Evidence that you show me (+ sub feed back) of what you got done today will count as a Quiz Grade!

Some of you are behind, and didn't turn stuff in last three weeks.You can still pass the six weeks, and you still hold around ~45% of your grade for the semester in your hands between the six weeks and the final. Be productive and you can succeed.

Quiz Grade

I'm not here most of the day (wednesday- helping with field trip, thursday- helping with eoc's). That means today is a quiz grade. Forgot to do this last time we were testing as I didn't have an actual sub. Evidence that you show me (+ sub feed back) of what you got done today will count as a Quiz Grade!

Some of you are behind, and didn't turn stuff in last three weeks.You can still pass the six weeks, and you still hold around ~45% of your grade for the semester in your hands between the six weeks and the final. Be productive and you can succeed.

If you've finished everything else you can work on in here, something to work on:


Put the following on your blog. Locked out of your blog, or some other excuse? Google doc, Drop Box, or find some other way to get the work to me instead. Work needs to be turned in during class on the day of the sub, otherwise I don't know that you actually produced the work in class.

Sub Day Task One
You should know the answers to these questions.
1. When can I submit my yearbook order?
2. How do I get an order form?
3. Where do I take my order?
4. How much does the book cost?
5. Isn't that expensive for a yearbook?
6. How do I get my book personalized, like my name, on the front cover?

7. How many pages is the book?

8. How much of it is in color?

9. What's a QR Code?
10. Why do I care about a QR code?
11. How many QR codes will there be?
12. What are the different categories of stuff for the QR codes?
13. How long will the QR codes last?
14. When will I get my yearbook?
15. How can I find out if I already bought one?
All of the above have correct and incorrect answers. Don't know the answers? Ask around.
Add a few ideas on how we could use the QR codes:

Sub Day Task Two

Research different famous photographers or photojournalists. Find one that you like or appreciate and tell me about them.

Provide at least two examples of work by them you like, and tell me why you think the photographs are good photographs.

Finish Line in Sight

The end is near and our work is almost complete. The last big thing to complete are the QR Codes to sell the books. We're trying to keep order forms available and ready for students and staff. If you notice an office is out, let us know so we can take some more down.

The QR Codes will be linking to videos. We have two people working on the Year at a Glance QR Code, and four+ people working on the others. We are using pictures from the event you take pictures of currently.

Some of you guys still owe assignments from before the progress report. Get them in if you're progress report grade isn't quite where you want it to be. You still have time to change things for the six weeks, but not enough time to be apathetic about it.

If you're planning on ordering, order soon. We ordered the same number of books as last year, and we sold out last year. This year's book is brighter, nicer, and in higher demand. You'll miss out if you wait too long.

All the Pisces are Set

Ignore the fish, this actually has nothing to do with them.


As stated, the final project is to create a portfolio of your work from the year. You may use Dreamweaver or Flash to do this. If you're thinking 'Hey, we haven't learned dreamweaver!' then you would be correct. Dreamweaver is used to create websites, so we don't really mess with it in Multimedia... until the end of the year.

Don't get too ahead of yourself though, we still need to finish the current project, but knowing about what's next may help you decide how to budget your time. Still to be graded for current project:
-Finished Product
-Evaluation
-Bibliography

Quite a few of you already know how to build a website from when we worked in Flash (assuming you chose that option). You are welcome to build another Flash Website, but there needs to be noticeable improvement, being that you've made one before. If you're thinking about flash, there's lots out there, and some of your peers may be great sources of information as well. If you like Flash, consider taking Digital Art & Animation in the future.

If you've decided you've had enough Flash, I'll help groups of students ready to learn DreamWeaver as you guys are ready. It's not terribly difficult, but can be tedious at times. If you decide you like DreamWeaver and want to learn more of it, take WebMastery, or take Digital Design if you just want a little more DreamWeaver but also want to learn other Adobe programs not in this class.

Whether Flash or DreamWeaver, you will need to gather up all your work from the year. This may be from your computer, or it may be from your blog. If you've kept your work up all year, gathering your work should be pretty easy.

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Progress Report Grades are due this Friday!

This Friday afternoon I'll be looking for your plan on your blog. That means... your plan is due Friday.

Your problems and design briefs have also been graded. Blogger's comment feature was working fine yesterday, but has broken again (or our servers aren't cooperating with them). So, 8th period has no comments for theirs currently. If you have a question about your's, let me know.