PE3_Cs4 Photoshop

Lynda.com has an excellent selection of photoshop tutorials. 

I used what I learned to create a "Jesus Light Beer can"

After an over view of Photoshop cs4, I looked at introductory tutorials.

Here I am erasing the bud part.

Here I am utilizing samples from vertically adjacent areas, to maintain consistent reflections.

Here is my final product.

PE2_iMovie

Here is a funny one minute video in which I used The detach audio feature to slide the sound of the mouse trap, to foreshadow the unfortunate event. I used fade to black to enter the night, and fade to white to enter the light.

In PE2_iMovie I have combined technical knowledge gleaned from the Lynda tutorials and theoretical knowledge from this book, to produce a funny one minute story.

PE1_iMovie

Two interesting things I learned about iMovie while trying to capture spring are presented in this one minute video.

This series of training videos showed me many editing techniques, and had a happy family ethos derived from the example videos used.

The screen within a screen and the green screen techniques are ones i've seen and wondered about.
this summer I may buy some green paint and experiment with the green screen technique. One thing not covered in the tutorials is how to import video from an Everio camera. I was lucky enough to find a free down load that resolved the problem. I like the powerful zoom on my Everio camera, it seems a bit more clear than the Aiptek video camera we got with our MacBook Pro and other EMDT peripherals.

This is the software I used. It was free and worked easily. This video also incorporates bee noises that I downloaded from the internet, screen inside of screen editing, and ducking the audio so that the bees and my voice over could be easily heard.

BP2_Schoology

I chose Schoology. I started out by reading some blogs that other people had written about schoology. This one teacher was stressed out because she was using it with seventh graders. They were being ugly and inappropriate. This thing works like facebook, in that you can send messages to the board or to each other.

She was trying to check all their posts, and it became a real time consumer. 

I've uploaded some art works and some photographs. I will ask the students to log on and to make one objective comment and one subjective comment for each picture. I will award them with 30 units of captain's cash (the art room currency). I plan on ordering a BUTTON MAKER and charging 100 units of captains cash per button. I believe the students will get a kick out of making buttons.

One problem I have run into is that my first idea was to use schoology to teach music, and now I can not figure out how to edit some of the fields. I clicked on every thing twice...at least twice, but I can't figure out how to change it. Another problem I am working on is locating the secret code for my students to use when they log in. If I can't find it, I will have to increase the amount of captains cash considerably. That last bit was a joke.
Really, I am liking this blog. I believe it would work more efficiently for my purpose. Schoology makes money when a school system buys their full featured version. This free version may have some undiscovered perks to it, but it seems to be a marketing tool.
Because my school system already has an electronic grade book, the grade book feature is not feasible.

Here is an awesome painting I bought from Neil Kalmanson. It is the second picture in the collection I will have my students comment on. I have made some comments on this picture, so that my students have an example.

 

Although I am not sure what the access code is, or if I am actually going to use this site with actual students, this is the URL.

BP3_iGoogle Screen Shots

This is my home page.

This is my FSO page.

This is my AR page

This is my ETC page.

BP1_welcome to my blog post

Welcome fellow ETC students. Here is a picture I painted. I am an Art teacher and a musician.