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, you will create a Gmail account used solely for this purpose.
     1. Go to www.google.com
     2. Click on Gmail in the upper left corner.
     3. Click on Sign up for Gmail on the lower right side of the screen.
     4. Fill out the form on the next screen.
     5. Click I Accept. Create my account.
     6. Write down the login name and password you chose on your login-password chart.
     7. Use this account every time you register for a new site or tool online.
     8. To check your Gmail account, go to http://mail.google.com and login with your login name 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, March 28 or 29.

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.

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.

Facebook:
      1. Create a Facebook account if you don't have one.
      2. Establish a group with your classmates
      3. Communicate with group as instructed.

 

Assignment Two - Collage
      In Class
      Digital camera

• Take a digital camera and shoot several pictures. You may take the camera outside if desired.
• Insert the SD Card into the side of the computer.
• Drag your pictures from the SD Card icon to the Desktop

      Scanner

• Select a brochure design or design your own
• Place the design in the scanner and open Image Capture
• Set the resolution to 72dpi, and the format to jpeg or jpg
• Drag the corner of the selection box over the desired part of the design
• Scan and save it to the Desktop

      Internet

• Open Firefox or Safari
• 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. Click on the maginifying glass at the upper right corner of the picture (another screen with the picture will appear)
• Click All Size, choose a large size
• Click Download the Large Size (or choose the largest option available)
• Click on the picture and drag it onto the desktop
• Note citation information (name of picture, and URL)

      You may do something similar with google.com (type in search term of your choosing, click on Images in left column, click on the picture you want to download, when the next screen comes up with that picture click on the picture and drag onto the desktop), but be very cautious of copyrights.

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
• upload your collage into the class group in flickr.com

Check Schedule webpage for due date.

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 idea that you will promote or advertise such as good eating habits or exercise. Your job is to create a 30-second commercial to promote this idea. To get started, you must make some initial decisions:

1. What is your idea?
   
2. Who is the audience that your commercial will target?
   
3. What is your unique selling point? What makes this idea beneficial?
• Why do people need to do this?
• Why will people want to do this?
  
4. Create a Slogan for your product. (a single sentence or phrase)
   
5. How will people feel if they follow this idea or suggestion? Write one sentence that tells people how this product will make them feel.
   
6. What images might make people feel the way you want the product to make them feel?
   
7. What kind of music will make people feel the way you want the product to make them feel?
   
8. Use the storyboard templates provided to draw a storyboard of your commercial. For a 30-second commercial you should expect to need about 10 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
    Director: _____________________________________________________
    Director of Photography: ________________________________________
    Audio Engineer: _______________________________________________
    Editor: _______________________________________________________
    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 as a QuickTime movie and saved on one of the team's public_html


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, upload it to the public_html folder of one of the team members. Due date is on the Schedule webpage.

 

Assignment Four - Mapping
Using GoogleEarth create a tour of at least five locations in Oregon.  
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.

 

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 include still images or a video track
• Will include a recorded voice track
• Will include music that is appropriate to your message
• May include other sounds.