Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Beginning your animations today!

Hey gang

This is the day you get to be really creative and work on creating your own animation masterpieces.

Visit www.crev.ca to find out about assignment 05. There is a printout of the planning sheet for you to work on.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Animated Fish







I'm following all the IT8 Blogs - they're good!

I am following just about everone's blogs automatically now so whenever they post something I get an update in my BLOGGER DASHBOARD. You need to follow this blog if you're in IT8.

We have been doing a lot o Digital Image manipulation with Photoshop and now with Fireworks in the last 3 classes. Everybody is learning new skills and having some fun.

There ar now 4 CLASSES LEFT - we're more than 1/2 way through. Today we are spending the first hour doing Fireworks Images and then the second 1/2 I will be teaching you Fireworks frame by frame Animation.

Your Blog assignment for today:
1- Make sure I'm a follower of your blog
2-Become a follower of my blog
3- post ALL THE FIREWORKS WORK YOU HAVE DONE before the break at 1:50

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Fun with Photoshop

Todays start of the class Blog post subject: My Valentine's Day plans or My favorite hobbies or sports

We have everyones Blog on line and working now and I am working my way through them and becoming a follower of all the students. Some need to fill in the gaps still. Look at Nick's Blog to see if you're missing anything as his is up to date.

Latest post is of your 2 favorite Photoshopped pictures of you: BloatandPucker, and MonkeyFace.

Spent the afternoon marking, A-01= blogs which I will continue to mark, A-02=Word Internet Search, A-03=Powerpoints, A-04-5 and A-04-6= the 2 photoshop pics posted to the blog. There are some good ones there! Have a look at the student blogs to see!

Had a great meeting after school with Keely and Jordan from Central School about the new Applied Digital Communication course that we will be offering next September at GESS and Central as a pilot project. It will be SWEET!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Great day today with IT8!

e has a little fun editing photos at the end of the day! More to come next class.

Students need to have their Powerpoint (Assignment 3) finished when they come to class on Weds Feb 10th. If you don't see me in 125 at lunch for extra help! If not done you will be in the Success room 139 with a laptop during your lunches until it's done.

We did an experiment sharing a Google Document with many of us editing at the same time. Fun! Here's the product which any student can revise as it is a live document
It looks like that to you:

It looks like similar to those of who can edit it except we have all the editing menus that you would have typically.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Had a beautiful xcountry ski at Sovereign Lakes

I'm looking forward to going up with you guys in a couple of weeks!


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Friday, February 5, 2010

Happy Friday!

So today I'm doing many things which I didn't really plan on doing! Teaching is always like that so one gets used to it... I really wanted to work through some 3D animation assignments to make sure they worked and I could do them - to be able to teach anyone who had trouble and I wanted to add all the IT 8 blogs to my listing webpage...

Instead so far: This morning I set up a video of some 3D animations in the library to attract some new "talent" for courses next year - Hope it helps! Some great stuff to make there and tons of fun (1/2hr) Then I had to prepare attendance records for the Government Audit of the school for my Outdoor Ed class (1 hour) Then I had to prepare a DVD for Josie Evans Mom as a souvenir of her school work in Digital Media (1/2 hour) I hope I can do some of my other stuff at the same time as I'm burning the DVD for the Evans on my Macbook Pro using IMovie and IDVD Rock on! The weekend is coming too!

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Just installed this app and it's working sweet!




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I'm having fun with IT8 now.

I'm adding all the kids in the class to my list of blogs I follow