21 Settings

Here's another great article from Digital Photography School: 21 Settings, techniques and rules all new Camera owners should know. Take a look and make it a resolution to try these.

Screen Casts

Remember awhile back I used screencast-o-matic to make a screen cast but it didn't load in the lab due to a conflict with java.  Here is another on line screen cast editor that will work on an earlier version of java and does much the same thing but with fewer bells and whistles. I will give you the username and password if you promise to share and play nicely.  If you want your own account, I can fix you up with that too but it takes time to activate.  This application is still in beta but will work in the lab, if you are doing screen casting at home you can use jing which is a downloadable program, or you can use screencast-0-matic too.

Here is a screencast video of our MultimediaII ning main page

Record your screencast online

back from walk, found neat rocks, rodent skiulls, and ta daa 3 partial arrowheads and 1 partial spearpoint in the road!

Ok this has to be filed under doh! But for my beginning photo and video students this is mechanical DOF at its best.http://twitter.com/
http://ping.fm/LItVV

Happy Holidays!

group 2 video

Thanks to Ali and McKenzie for getting the dance video edited.


Multimedia Group 2 Video Project from ann darling on Vimeo.

Social Bookmarking

Yesterday in class you wondered where I find things like bomomo, well part of my luck was finding out about social bookmarking. Watch this entertaining and informative video to find out about social bookmarking and how it can help you research interesting things on the web.
To visit my bookmarks
http://delicious.com/darling.aw

Thanksgiving Video Project

Sam's video was a good example of the thanksgiving interview assignment. For more you can go to our shs multimedia group at vimeo to see everyone's.


My Thanksiving Interview-by Sam A from ann darling on Vimeo.

Why Blog?

We have done some work on blogging etiquette and writing techniques so now its time to show them off. I would like you to write a short post(you may post to your own blog or multimedia) on how blogging can be used to improve student writing. Reread the post about good blogging techniques with an eye for some of the skills required for a good post. Are there some skills used here that would be good for writing in other content areas? Give one example.
10 tips for a good blog

Good Blogging Opens Doors

DUE JANUARY 6

The Weird and Wonderful for this Week(3w)

Check out this crazy free graphics program called "bomomo"! You cant probably save work here at school since it requires a download but try it and see. This would be a great idea for title slides, backgrounds etc.

If you want to keep bomomo projects, choose to open in the save dialog rather than save and the project will open in an image editor such as photoshop or ms paint. then you can save normally. This seems to bypass the problem of downloading from the web which we cannot do in the lab.

Illustrating Poetry and Lyrics

Try this fun assignment in photoshop, movie maker, photostory or powerpoint.



OBJECTIVES: You will choose an original poem or song lyrics to illustrate. You may illustrate this poem with text and images in a Photoshop collage (no larger than 8x10 @ 72 dpi), Powerpoint slide show, photostory 3, or MovieMaker format. Since this is multimedia, music may be added. Stock photos are allowed however you are encouraged to take pictures!
GRADING CRITERIA: The poem must appear in its entirety without edits. Legibility of text. Overall concept & Creative relationships, Images support concept, Technical mastery ( like selections, scale &appearance).

Want to add a Graph to Your Blog

Just for fun I found crappy graph! Its kinda wonky but easy to do.
here is the url http://crappygraphs.com/ . Have Fun

What Makes You Happy?

Over at Digital Photography School they run contests every two weeks, what a great idea to keep you all taking photos! This is an example of the contest: http://digital-photography-school.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37646

This month since we are in a Christmas Mood lets try a contest. The theme just like at digital photography school should be "Happiness" and more specifically what makes you Happy!

• Your entry should be posted to the class blog over at http://wpmu.esu13.org/adarling.
• Size your photo as a jpeg at no larger than 450x450 at 72 ppi. and upload to the class blog.
• Entries should be in by Dec 17 and winner will be announced and connected with their prize on Dec 19 during our movie and Christmas Party.

Bembos Zoo

here is a fun project done with just one type font Bembos! Check it out at bemboszoo.com