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Your first assignment for the week: before Sept. 14
Go to your page see the link a little below
When you are on your page click at the top on EDIT ... you can then start writing on your page ... and answer the questions ...
You can always email me if you need help ... I will on Tuesday show case in detail on how to use the wiki.
You can post a small photo of you on the top of the page... it's a little bit tricky to post a photo on the page ... let see if you can do it.
Otherwise we will do it together on Tuesday
On Tuesday Sept. 14 bring your laptop (if you have one) your digital camera & Camcorder ... what ever you have so that I can see your equipment.
What you need for the class:
* PC or Mac at home (laptops to bring to class even better but not an obligation to have)
* a fast connection is preferable (Cable/DSL)
* a digital camera
* a camcorder (digital cameras with video possibilities are OK)
* a webcam for live conference or asynchronous communication around $ 50
Tuesday Sept. 14 Tech. 117
- Presentation of the class and its objectives
After learning to use online apps. we can start being creative using them.
- About me
- watch a few videos from wiki
- Why are you taking the class.... I will record your answers to put onto the wiki
or may be you could do a video on your own where you present yourself...
- Student shows Material they have for the class to see what is missing...
What you need for the class:
* PC or Mac at home (laptops to bring to class even better but not an obligation to have)
* a fast connection is preferable (Cable/DSL)
* a digital camera
* a camcorder (digital cameras with video possibilities are OK)
* a webcam for live conference or asynchronous communication around $ 50
* Quicktime pro or other video editing tool
mac: iMovie | Final Cut pro
pc: Window movie maker Adobe premiere
Objective: sign up to various applications that will be used during the class
jimdo/ wiki / skype / Twitter / edmodo/ Seesmic / Posterous
Demonstration of those applications
Jimdo sign up/ demonstration
Twitter sign up/demonstration
Skype
Tuesday Sept. 21 Online posted on Thursday Sept. 16 be aware that I might update the schedule later on.
Objective: On your Wiki page
- finish answering all the questions
- upload a small photo of your face to be posted on top of your page first thing we should see when entering your page
- feel free to upload a small video profile on your page, like Sam did the one I uploaded on his page in class
- check other student page to see what they wrote and to learn about them...
- organize your page to make it look nice use colors/various fonts images ,what ever to make it look appealing within the limitation of the wiki
- feel free to comment down the page on any one's pages. I see that some of you alraedy stated doing this, that's cool!
- write the info for all the applications we are going to use and make them a link when possible ex: for Jimdo: http://videobloggingclass.jimdo.com/ you can now click on it to go to the site
email: Skype: Jimdo: twitter: edmodo: seesmic:
Organize your jimdo
- choose template / title / image try to upload your own image ...
- create various pages feel free to create more or other pages of your choice
list: -about me
- photos
- videos
- class
- links
- guessbook
- First challenge is to write something on your Home page, the page visitors enter and want quickly to know what your site is about!
Think about it! what is your motivation for creating a website ... you have to figure it out and express it clearly
- write about your self in the page "about me"
I want to see in both page ( home & about me TEXT & PHOTOS ) remember to be visual as much as possible video is OK too
Online Communication
SKYPE You have to contact me on Skype at least once during those two weeks -before next class in room 117 My usename on Skype is tiilnet
I will with you, review your progress on your work and give you a critic, I will help you to correct or resolve a problem,etc... and you can ask me any question.
TWITTER Twitter participation: practice using Twitter build your follower if your are starting --share something... anything ...what did you eat this morning...
Edmodo Remember to write as well on Edmodo. It is our private platform for communication to ask question to me --answer somebody else, but also ( like on Twitter ) share something of interest to the class.
Seesmic Participate in the conversation I started in the class Tuesday. The video is located in the Front page of the wiki ... Say anything you want... it's just for practice
Tuesday Sept. 28 Tech. 117
a few things to start:
- look at the work done online from everyone
wiki / jimdo
check username in wiki ( somebody is still a guest ?)
- What's the difference between a website and a blog? quick historic of website/blog evolution
- upload AVATAR to your apps Twitter Seesmic edmodo etc... http://en.gravatar.com/
- Twitter account for everyone powerTwitter with firefox to show images/videos/audio etc...
Objective: digital camera
1 - Look at Camera:
* test your Digital Camera --how you prepare it to take photos size/weight of your images
* download images to computer into a folder....
2 - Learn about images
* DPI | Pixel | Jpeg | Compression | Resize
* prepare your images to put them online ~ demonstration
* Photoshop / http://www.picnik.com / http://resizeimage.org
* Flickr demonstration http://www.flickr.com/photos/30575240@N00/
create an account
* how you can upload your images on your Jimdo from Flickr
remember that you are limited on Jimdo 500MB storage
everyone go take photos on Campus 10 mn. 5 / 10 photos
post them on your Jimdo tnight....
upload a personal image to jimdo title background
Twitter: how to upload/share an image http://twitpic.com/photos/vbclass ~ demonstration http://oneforty.com/category/group/Photo,_Video-Music
how to record/share your screen http://www.screenjelly.com/ ~ demonstration
music http://twiturm.com/bkkw
video http://tvider.com/
Week of Oct. 4 Online
Objective: all about photos
* 1 - Take a photo with your camera with the highest definition
I challenge you to send me one photo at my email plejeune@comcast.net in three various format
1- the highest one you can take with your camera
2- the same photo at a lower resolution about 800 X 600 pixels
3- the same one as a Thumbnail format about 100 X 60 pixels
If you don't have photoshop remember you can use for free and online http://www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome click on the green arrow that says Upload on the top left or
http://resizeimage.org to prepare your images
* 2 - post 15 photos or more on your Jimdo
Two choices
- post them directly on Jimdo on your photo page If you don't expect to do a lot of photos --choose this option
- post them first on Flickr http://www.flickr.com --create an account... post your photos ...from Jimdo you can easely bring your flickr photos --choose this option if you take a lot of photos let me know if you are using another online apps. to
archive your photos...
If you decide to create a Flickr account let me know and put a link in your wiki page so that I can check your images
my Flickr account I use to post drawings from my students http://www.flickr.com/photos/30575240@N00/
* 3 - Share one of your image with the class on edmodo with a link to your photo page from Jimdo
- Share one photo on Twitter with the class
go to http://twitpic.com Login ... you use the username & password from your Twitter account to login to twitpic...
as an example you can check my page on twitpic http://twitpic.com/photos/tiil
You have to choices 1 upload a photo from your computer ... follow the instructions
2 take a photo from your cellphone to upload it directly to your Twitter feed follow the instruction
Online Communication Remember you have to practice all those applications...
SKYPE You have to contact me on Skype at least once during those two weeks -before next class in room 117 My usename on Skype is tiilnet
I will with you, review your progress on your work and give you a critic, I will help you if there is somthing you can/t do,etc... and you can ask me any question.
TWITTER Twitter participation: practice using Twitter build your follower if your are starting --share something... anything ...what did you eat this morning...
Edmodo Remember to write as well on Edmodo. It is our private platform for communication to ask question to me --answer somebody else, but also ( like on Twitter ) share something of interest to the class.
Seesmic Participate in the conversation I started in the class Tuesday. The video is located in the Front page of the wiki ... Say anything you want... it's just for practice
Assignment for:
October 12 Tech 117
http://www.ustream.tv/broadcaster/5202
review your online work critic
jimdo photo page | 3 resized photos sent by email | Twitpic photo posted on Twitter
Objective: learn to use your material all about videos
interesting article published on Oct.11 2010 5-big-misconceptions-about-online-video
about video links:
convert files online http://www.cometdocs.com/
how to make video streaming http://www.mediacollege.com/video/streaming/overview.html
Video formats
beginner guide to HD video http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Guides/hd_beginners_guide_01.htm
http://www.mediacollege.com/
1 - Video
* video from YouTube
* shooting light/audio demonstration short video of the class
* upload to computer on Pc on Mac (important on PC's import your movie with no compression --AVI files no wmp files)
*files names
* open it with Quicktime Pro demonstration other programs: mac: imovie pc: window movie maker Final cut ....
- editing
- export
-compression
record a video from Quiktime to upload it to YouTube nice way to communicate post the video unlisted
2 - upload videos to online applications
* YouTube / vimeo / blip.tv
3- copy the embeded code to post on your jimdo
<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jtlJuYqtfyw?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jtlJuYqtfyw?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
4- class go on campus to shoot 5 min. video for 20 min.
everyone works the process to prepare the video to be uploaded on youtube or .... then on Jimdo
5- example of widget using vimeo http://vimeo.com/widget demonstration upload to jimdo for everyone
6- take a snapshot of your screen http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/search?prd=all&q=snapshot%20of%20screen
http://www.artwanted.com/mb/topic.cfm?Topic=178427
about posterous: if we have time I will showcase how to use posterous
Discussion about our open house project
coming soon...
to see Schedule from last year
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