Multimedia Today

First) Read over an article with a peer. Discuss your article with your peer. Be ready to tell the class about the article and your opinion.

Second) Continue working on your keynote presentations. You should be getting pretty close to finishing it. Look over spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors. Giving a good presentation requires proper use of the language you are presenting in.

Put a link in your presentation to the Web 2.0 Tool you will be presenting on.

Yearbook Today

Continue working on your current page (project grade). It is due in roughly two weeks time.

Follow the rubric to get the grade you would like. To do well on the approval sheet(quiz grade), it would be smart to aim for this Thursday/Friday to start getting signatures and finding out what to fix. The last class day of this week, you will be graded on what you have done so far. I am not expecting it to be entirely finished, but I am expecting a fair effort to already be done(quiz grade). A fair effort means there should already be some pictures up that are edited in the proper style, captions and copy writing, and page layout. Waiting till the week your page is due is NOT a good idea.

It would be a good idea to look at some of the pages from 16-32 in the software. These pages are completed and already submitted. They should give you a good idea of at what quality we are looking for in layout, pictures, captions, writing, etc.

You should be able to get down your layout design, and begin copy writing, as well as find out when you need to take photos.

A fair number of you do not spend your class time working(daily grade) nor update your blog each class (daily grade). You need to spend class time working on your page to get a good participation/work effort grade. You need to be updating your blog explaining what you've got accomplished each day to do well on the blog check. Some of you haven't blogged since last semester, some of you haven't logged into studio works since last semester, and theres even a few of you who have done neither.

Failing to do any of these things will make it hard to have a passing grade. Like always, you are welcome to come for extra time most days at lunch and after school. You are also welcome to come and borrow a camera to get pictures taken. It is your responsibility to get these your page complete, not someone else's.

Ladder has been updated:

Ladder as of 1/14/11

If you are not on the ladder, you need to see me.

Multimedia Jan 14th

lynda.com has some videos on presentations and on keynote that you can check out. We have keynote '09 installed, so to watch specific videos on our version, follow that link. There are a lot of other great videos online regarding presentations, you are welcome to look for them. There are also tons of articles you may look at.

If you feel you have a good mastery over what to do, or what not to do in a presentation, then begin working on your keynote presentation over your web 2.0 tool. Try to keep in mind what makes a good presentation, and what doesn't when designing your presentation.

Multimedia Today

First: Class Discussion

"Powerpoint makes us stupid."

           -Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis

Do you agree or disagree?

Second: Flip through the 'Death by Powerpoint' slides below.

Death by Powerpoint is a fairly well known phrase, and has its own Wiki entry.

Look up a few things on the problems and issues with powerpoint presentations. Find anything interesting or other issues/solutions not in the slides above? Post a few on your blog.

Third: Play with Keynote

Check out some of Apple's Tutorials on Keynote and play with the software.

End of Class: Daily blog post

Multimedia

First, you need to look into Web 2.0 tools. Find a couple different ones you want to know more about.

After experimenting with the web 2.0 tools a bit more, choose a first and second choice. It would be a good idea to have an additional backup choice or two, as no two students may choose the same one. Your goals will be to experiment with the tool and learn how to use it, then to assess its pros and cons, and how it can aid students. If your web 2.0 tool can not meet these requirements, you will have to choose another.

On your blog, tell me what a web 2.0 tool is. Provide a link on your blog regarding your first and second choice and tell me why you chose them.

Tell me about what other tools you used, and what you were able to get accomplished with the tools you would like to use for your presentation.

At the end of class, please shutdown your computer, return the mouse and keyboard to the position they began in.

January 5, 2011

Welcome back. Hopefully you had a great holiday break. Hopefully you noticed how the keyboard and mouse was setup in relation to the computer when you sat down. You will be expected to return it to this position at the end of the class.

We will talk a bit as a class first. We will review the syllabus, and class expectations.

Next we will discuss our first project for the new semester. Afterwards, I will provide more information regarding it on the blog.

Yearbook Jan. 4

Welcome back from the Winter break. Hopefully you noticed how the keyboard and mouse was setup in relation to the computer when you sat down. You will be expected to return it to this position at the end of the class.

The spring semester will be very deadline oriented. We will have a class discussion over a few things before you begin working today.

In your blog today, you will need to present your plan to to comply with the first deadline. You have three weeks, you need to have an outline of what you will work on each week. Try to leave extra time at the end, so if things don't go quite the way you expected, you can still get things finished without too much stress.

You may begin working once you have your plan.

End of Class: Don't forget to summarize what you got accomplished on your blog, as well as what you need to do next. Shutdown your computer, return the mouse and keyboard to the position they began in.