Day3

= = =Welcome to Day 3 =


 * 21st Century Skills/Web validity **

Read and discuss the following article

The New Literacies http://www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=1292 http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/ http://www.zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/teaching-zack-to-think/

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A little about Cloud Computing

Apple iCloud http://www.apple.com/icloud/

Amazon Cloud Drive http://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/ref=sa_menu_acd_urc2

Google Cloud Drive http://music.google.com/

Creating Powerpoint or Keynote Presentations
Create a powerpoint or Keynote presentation on an educational topic of your choice for classroom use within your curricular area or as a sample for your students of an assignment you plan to have them do. Use media from 2 of the virtual museum sites. SHIFT Tab creates new slide in Outline view--SHIFT allows you to add things to the main page File menu – Export Save as JPEG to have each slide saved separately (easier to share or post online)

Keynote
http://esu3iwork.wikispaces.com/

Wide range of resources here: http://ted8540.wikispaces.com/Digital+Images

Digital Cameras. Megapixels to Compact Flash etc. What’s it all mean?
[] -Great site for learning how to take pictures __** Recover pictures on corrupt memory cards **__ __http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/download_mac.htm__
 * OR **
 * [] **

Creating and editing digital photos – free resources etc. __http://esu3pics.wikispaces.com/__

**Indepth iPhoto http://doanedigitalmedia.wikispaces.com/iPhoto **
A few notes To Backup your photos -share- burn to a disc (CDR disc) Time Machine for backup- need external hard drive to back up your computer *Change name of multiple pictures --Under Photos -down to batch change- set title (to text), date, description -View, sort photos by date, rating etc. + sign at the bottom left to create new album Smart Album- find any pictures with a certain name you type in to automate creation of topic specific albums Great size for emails 1024 by 768

Scanners, Scanning -72 dpi resolution is ideal for a website for your classroom -300 dpi resolution is ideal for printing or archiving (up to 600 for small pictures scanned)

=Image Formats= http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/web_graphics/article.php/3479931

http://digitalpictures.wikispaces.com/
[] __Flickr Online Photographs__ [] __Tell a story in 5 Frames (Visual story telling)__ __ [] __ __piknik Online image editing (online version of photoshop/iPhoto for FREE!!!!)__ [|http://www.picnik.com] __Worth a Thousand Words__ [] __Creative Commons__ [] __Creative Commons Search__ [] __Yahoo Creative Commons Search__ []

With No Limitations On Their Usage
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

iPhoto slide show - when you have your album made click on the + sign, then select slide show, now you can add music. When you are ready to move it to your desktop, go up to file, export, desktop.
 * Picasa -Google tool to share pictures online with people that have Google accounts **

Web Pages with Iweb http://doanedigitalmedia.wikispaces.com/iweb

__1.Take 5 jpeg digital pictures you captured and share them with fellow educators and students around the world and submit them to__ []
 * __Assignment__ ** __….__

__2. export a web page of your pictures from iphoto or picassa or Photoshop elements and save in a folder on your desktop.__ Steps to make a web page make an album file, export save as a web page (title, background color, text color, template) export save to desktop or new folder ok

**To create a Fancy Web page**
 * Share **
 * send to iWeb **
 * photo page **
 * publish to a folder **
 * name it **


 * Or Use Google Sites if you would like an online presence for your photos **
 * http://sites.google.com/ **
 * http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html **

Digital images from Words. http://www.wordle.net/


 * One hundred greatest speeches **
 * http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm **