October 1

Year 8 - Hope you had a great weekend AND had a great time at the BBQ sponsored by the PTA (Thank You PTA).

Let's Investigate

1) What is "Image Hosting"?

2) Go to Photobucket.com and open an account. It's easy!

When you finish your "practice" photostory, you will be able to upload a copy of your photostory to Photo Bucket and store it there. Next, you will then have the capability of embedding your creation into your blog for all of cyberspace to see! It's so cool!

3) Finish your "Practice" photo story.

September 27

Year 8 - ACTIVITY DAY

No IT Classes :-(

BUT have a great day!

FYI (for your information)

September 24

Year 8 today we are going to venture into the world of PowerPoint 2007. We are going to explore the new format. It is easy to make title pages and pages with text to insert into our final PhotoStory. We will save the PowerPoint slides we create as images.

We are soooo tech savvy!

September 20

Good Morning Year 8.

Wow, we are really moving along on learning the techniques needed for using PhotoStory 3. You all are working hard! Well done!

1 - Investigation. What is "storyboarding"? Do a search using a search engine like Google or Yahoo to answer this question. Write the answer on your blog IN A COMPLETE PARAGRAPH (please).

2. Storyboarding - Let's look at a tutorial explaining how to storyboard our projects.
http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/gettingstarted.htm

3. Now for the FUN part. Continue working on your first PhotoStory!

Keep up the good work Year 8!

September 17

Hope you had a great weekend Year 8.

1) Have you finished the tutorial?

2) We will look at another tutorial together to make sure that we all understand what the elements are that go into creating a digital story using PhotoStory 3 :-) http://www.coe.uh.edu/digitalstorytelling/gettingstarted.htm

September 13

Good morning Year 8. Wow! It's Thursday already.

1. Check the comments that I left on your blogs.

2. António, Rodrigo, Diogo, Sietska, Ana and Madalena please see me.

3. Finish any work from Monday (Sept 10). Check the blog if you have forgotten the assignment.

4. Begin the PhotoStory 3 Tutorial - click on the link below: http://millie.furman.edu/mll/tutorials/photostory3/index.htm

5. Look at this digital story - it is someone's humanities project that was shared on YouTube.

September 10 - Assignment

Questions, questions and more questions!

Today we will learn how to post links to our blog. We will insert them into a new post and to a link list in the sidebar.

Saving URL's (Uniform Resource Locator, previously Universal Resource Locator, is the unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet) is important to know how to do because we will need to be able to do this. Remember your blog is your process journal and you will need to record important information that you will need to complete your design folder.

1. Let's practice posting links in our blogs.
2. INVESTIGATION - Use a search engine (like Google or Yahoo) to research "digital storytelling".
   What is digital storytelling?
   What programs can we use for digital storytelling?
   Are any of these tools open-source? (Open-source tools are are free! Another name is Freeware.)
   Remember to keep all of the URL's for documentation purposes. (We will need this information when we are creating our design folder for assessment).
3. INVESTIGATION - Find 3 examples of photostories online. Record the URL's. How were the PhotoStories used? Were they personal? Were they scholatic?

September 6 Relection

Well, our class was full of activity today. We all should have our own blog now and have recorded (written down) the blog address, our email address and the password.

Today we learned how to insert an image into a post and into the sidebar. Well done Year 8. If you need a review, please look at the posting below this one - it should help.

We didn't complete the tasks on our assignment list today. Not to worry - they will be re-assigned for the week of Sept 10.

Have a great weekend and Happy Blogging!

Inserting a photo is easy

Inserting a photo into your blog is easy.

1. Create a new post

2. Look at the toolbar - you will see an icon (a little picture) for an image (it's located between the ABC - spell check icon and the Film icon)

3. Click on the Add Image Icon

4. A box will open asking if you want to add a picture from your computer or directly from the www

5. Select your preference

6. Choose a layout

7. Choose image size

8. Click on the orange button: Upload Image

It was that easy. Now you try it.

Thursday, September 6

IT tasks (for a great group of students:-D )

In keeping with our goal to become a "paperless" classroom, today's assignment is listed below.

1. Finish creating blog
2. Write a reflection about "the process of creating the blog" (was it difficult? was it easier than you thought it would be? Was it fun? Do you think your blog will be helpful?)
3. We will learn how to insert a picture into a blog.
4. INVESTIGATION - Use a search engine (like Google or Yahoo) to research "digital storytelling".

• What is digital storytelling?
• What programs can we use for digital storytelling?
• Are any of these tools open-source? (Open-source tools are are free! Another name is Freeware.)

Remember to keep all of the URL's for documentation purposes. (We will need this information when we are creating our design folder for assessment).

5. Begin the PhotoStory 3 tutorial. Click here to fly through cyberspace to a site with a FREE PhotoStory 3 tutorial.

Remember your blog has been created as an online "notebook". Please record all of your finding on your blog. Also before the end of each class, please write a reflection about what you did in class that day.

Our blogs have been created as a tool to help when we are completing our projects and evaluating our work at the end of the term.

Hi Year 8

Year 8, I just couldn't resist!

I have created a blog to post assignments. We have our website which will house all of our important documents, but I decided that I would create a blog to help you keep on task during our class sessions.

So, watch this spot. . .

PS: I would LOVE it if you left comments on my blog (hahaha).