Web2.0 | Collage | Video | Mapping | Podcast | Mobile Apps | Website | Final | Others

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Assignment One - Blogging Part 1: Create a Gmail account

     Throughout the term, you may be asked to sign up for a variety of tools or services available online. In order to protect your regular email account and address book from spam or other dangers, it is well for you to create a Gmail account used solely for this purpose.
     1. Go to www.google.com
     2. Click on Gmail.
     3. Click on Sign up.
     4. Fill out the form.
     5. Write down the login name and password you chose on your login-password chart.
     6. Use this account when you register for a new site or tool online.
     7. To check your Gmail account, go to http://mail.google.com and login with your login name and password.

PS - If Google has changed its format, follow along and use common sense.

Part 1: Create a "flickr" account

     1. Go to www.flickr.com
     2. Click on Sign Up.
     3. Click on Create New Account.
     4. Fill out the form.
     5. When signed in, click on Groups.
     6. Search for group: ED270spring15.
     7. Click on Join group
     7. Write down your username and password.

Experiencing Web 2.0:
      The goal of this assignment is to give each of us experiences using Web2.0. Go to go2web20.net and adventure through the site. Specifically, near the top of the page "Select Tag." It's like choosing a key word. Choose a keyword of your interest. When the new page comes up, scan through the different icons and choose one that you wish to explore. Click on your choice and click again on your choice when it shows up near the bottom of your screen. Try out the website.

      After your adventure through the website, write a brief review in your blog. Consider some of the following questions.

• Did the functions of the website meet your expectations?
• What was the purpose of this website?
• How would you use this website in teaching?
• What worked well in this website?
• What worked poorly or didn't work at all?
• Who is the intented audience of this website? Adults? Teachers? Students? What grade?

      Repeat the above process with two more websites. You might want to consider selecting a tag called Websites. It will bring an interesting dynamic to our website assignment this next week.

Explore one more site in go2web20 and write several paragraphs in your blog before next week, April 8-10.

Creating a Blog:
      1. Go to www.blogger.com to create a blog.
      2. Using your gmail account, type in your email address and password and sign in.
      3. Enter your name for the display name and click continue.
      4. Choose a title and address for your blog (check availability) and click continue.
(write down your blog’s URL address for later reference)
      5. Choose a template and click continue.
      6. Your blog has been created, click start blogging.

      Or
      0. Login into your Portal in www.wou.edu
      1. Go to www.blogger.com
      2. Type in your WOU email address eg jsmith@mail.wou.edu
      2b. Do NOT enter your password
      3. Click on sign up, or continue..
      4. Choose a title and address for your blog (check availability) and click continue.
(write down your blog’s URL address for later reference)
      5. Choose a template and click continue.
      6. Your blog has been created, click start blogging.

      Or
      1. Go to wordpress.com
      2. Click on Create Website
      3. Enter a name for your website/blog
      4. Follow the prompts to create a blog
(write down your blog’s URL address for later reference)

Blogging:
      1. Once your blog has been created, type an entry that discusses the ways you would use the various web 2.0 tools in your classroom. Include blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, photo and video sharing, and any other useful tool you found today. Be sure to include the grade level and content area you will be teaching.
      2. When you are done typing your post, click publish post.

 

Assignment Two - Collage
      In Class
      Digital camera

• Working in pairs, take a digital camera and shoot several pictures each. You may take the camera outside if desired.
• Using the USB cable, connect the camera to the computer.
• Drag your pictures from the camera to the Desktop or to your network folder.

      Scanner

• Select a brochure design or design your own
• Scan a picture and place it in the brochure
• Save it to the Desktop or network folder

      Internet

• Open Firefox or Internet Explorer
• Type www.flickr.com into the address bar and hit Return
• Type in a search term of your choosing and click Search
• On the next screen, click on Advanced Search
• Scroll down the page to Creative Commons and check:
• Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content
• Find content to modify, adapt, or build upon
• Click Search
• Click on the picture you want to download
• When the larger picture opens, look above it for options. If possible, click All Sizes
• Click Download the Large Size (or choose the largest option available)
• Save the file to your network folder
• Note citation information (name of picture, and URL)

After gathering the three images
Collage:
Select one photograph from each category--one from the digital camera, one scanned image, and one image from the Internet.

      Using PhotoShop:

• create a collage that combines portions from each picture (not the entire image except for the background picture)
• combine each element carefully to create a cohesive single image--not simply three individual images on the same page
• use the text tool to add a label to you college
• apply at least one Effect to you text

This assingment two is due in two weeks.

Publish your picture to our group on Flickr following the instructions on the webpage.

Assignment Three - Video

Working in groups of 3-4 students, you will select a concept or an idea which you wish to promote. Your job is to create a 30-second commercial to market this idea. To get started, you must make some initial decisions:

1. What is your idea or concept you wish to promote?
   
2. Who is the audience that your commercial will target?
   
3. What is your unique selling point? What makes this idea special?
• Why do people need to adopt or use this idea?
• Why will people want to adopt or use this idea?
  
4. Create a Slogan for your idea. (a single sentence or phrase)
   
5. How will people feel if they use (eat, adopt, etc.) this idea? Write one sentence that tells people how this product will make them feel.
   
6. What images might make people adopt the idea you want to use?
   
7. What kind of music will make people adopt or use this idea?
   
8. Use the storyboard templates provided to draw a storyboard of your commercial. For a 30-second commercial you should expect to need about 15 frames on your storyboard. Remember to use long shots to establish the setting, as well as medium shots, close-ups, extreme close-ups, and a variety of angles.
   
9. After you have planned your video, shoot your footage. You may go outside or to other locations on campus if necessary. Remember to shoot more footage than you actually need: start the camera recording early and keep it recording for a few seconds after your scene has ended.
10. Return to the classroom and capture your footage in iMovie.
    • Organize your clips on the timeline in the order you will need them, add transitions, soundtrack, captions, etc.
    
11. Production Crew: Assign each member of your team a specific job which that person will be in charge of. You will need a actors, directors, writers, camera persons, and support staff.
    You may need people to play more than one role. Each person in your group must take on at least one lead role.

    Your finished commercial must meet the following requirements:

• Exactly 30 seconds in length.
  
• Includes between 10 and 20 individual clips
  
• Includes a variety of camera shots, including
1. Long shots (establishing shots)
2. Medium shots
3. Close-ups
4. Extreme close-ups
• Makes use of different angles in camera shots
• Includes a slogan, or an identifiable selling point
• Includes a soundtrack, which can consist of music, words, sound effects, or all three.
• Must be saved (shared) as a QuickTime movie and stored on the public_htm of one of the team members.


Important Note: Before you log off your computer, remember to save all of your video files to the class_bucy folder.

     When your video is complete, save it in your public_html in two weeks.

 

Assignment Four - Mapping

Using GoogleEarth create a tour of at least five locations in general.  
Create a balloon at each location with a description, an image and a link to the Internet on each.
The theme of your tour is to be educational, such as touring natural features, cities of distinction, sites of historic value, unique geographic features, habitats of specific animals.
The tour is to be saved as a .kmz document in your public_html folder.  There will be links established so that you may view each other's tours.

This assingment is due in two weeks.

Assignment Five - Podcasting

Using GarageBand, create a short educational podcast on a topic of your choice:

• Your podcast will have an educational theme
• Should be in the 2-3 minute range
• Will not include still images or a video track (current version of GarageBand does allow these)
• Will include a recorded voice track
• Will include music that is appropriate to your message
• May include other sounds.