http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=36&kit=5273ceef-ccad-4deb-a1f9-490adb8939d6&type=V

Here is the link to my Cited toolkit.  I clicked on some links that I thought to be be helpful but they turned out to be dead or old sites.  I chose 4 to link for now.
The one on cyberbullying will be helpful for our HIB leaders. 
Digital storytelling will be a great link to share with the LAL teacher I do ICR with.
Managing Classroom Technology and "Why the Net" will be good resources for any teacher trying to incorporate more technology into the classroom.
I have sent the toolkit to Professor Holan and  I have sent the toolkit to our guidance counselor for the anti-bullying site.  I am sending it to my LAL partner as well.  Finally I am going to send it to several teachers who are in the IMPACT grant but not in this class with us.

Stacy

I created a storyboard for what my main page would look like.  I am creating a page for tutorials of our math topics.  I am going to break it down by chapter and section.  This is for the main chapter page.  I would like to have each video start with a still of the "teacher" I think this would make the kids want to click on it to see their friends teach.

This will be developed throughout the year this year and really in play for 2013-2014.  Wish me luck!!

Blog Number 5 part 1 Movie


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrSEGwOlg14&feature=youtu.be


If you click on the above link you can see my movie. It is My son Max at age three.   It was originally titled Max through the years, but that was too long! I do not like Windows Movie Maker!!! I am so used to the idiot proof Proshow Gold that allows you to just click and change duration for transitions and slide time.  This was way harder!! PS tech support on line and on the phone are NO help at all!  I finally finished it with narration and then the narration disappeared so I had to redo that and that is why I messed up in the beginning.  I hope you enjoy it, the trip down memory lane was nice.


Stacy

Blog 4 Activity on page 227 Colors

I did 2 different activities with colors and painting.  Activity number 1:  First I used watercolors and made a color-wheel mixing my own colors in the little boxes on the lid.  It was tempting to just use the many pre-made colors but for this part I didn't.  Secondly I did use the preexisting colors to create a rainbow paper.  This is something I do whenever I get near water colors.  I love the way the edges of each color blend together like in a real rainbow.

Activity number 2:  I enlisted the help of my almost four year old and some finger paints. He made some predictions of what color would come from mixing two colors.  Then he got dirty! I videotaped it please watch.

 And then we took some pictures of the final products.

We had a lot of fun and made a big mess!  Enjoy!!!


Stacy

Blog 4 page 197 Borders

For this activity I took a picture from my wedding reception and used different borders to enhance the picture.  I found the different border options within Microsoft Publisher.

The first picture has just a thin black line, a standard border found anywhere.  For the second picture I chose silver to match colors found the the picture itself.

Pictures 3-6use the "border art" tab within the format your picture option.  I think number three has a picture frame look it was called thick outside line.

 Then I got a bit fancy, picture 4 is the grey hearts option, hearts for the family of course and the grey because again it plays off colors in the picture.

The Celtic Knot bordering picture 5 was originally black but making red added a pop!

For the wedding bells around picture 6 I used the custom option and it allowed me to choose from clip art or a picture of my own.  I chose the wedding bells clip art because it is a wedding picture.

It was fun! I hope you enjoy it too.

Stacy

Blog 4 page 193 Cropping

I chose several pictures and then cropped them in different ways to focus on different items.  I did this by opening the picture in Microsoft Office Picture Manager which allows you to crop, re-size, change color and reduce red eye.  I have used this program many times both personally and professionally.

I then put the pictures into a slideshow using Proshow Gold, the program I use for the graduation slideshow I make every year.  This time I played with the captions feature to .  I added captions, moved them around, changed the fonts and the colors to see what worked.

I hope you enjoy it!

Stacy

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Page 56 Activity 2

So I went to http://www.loc.gov/rr/print and I looked through a lot of pictures.  I choose different collections; looked under different topics but they were all boring.  I looked at photos on Japanese Americans at Manzanar camp; I thought we could work them in to our discussions about the holocaust while reading Anne Frank.  Those were just what appeared to be school pictures.  Then I looked at some celebrity photos but they were just the title not the actual picture available for viewing.   Actually I found one I like, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with Sammy Davis Jr. but it would not allow me to enlarge it our to download it. 

Ok here is where I decided to look at Facebook, find some pictures taken by my friends and critique them.  These two particular friends are amateur photographers, one of them does professional as well. 

The first picture is the little boy on the slide. 

·        Line: The curvy lines of the slide, “guide the viewing eye through the composition.”

·        Shape: The slide and the little boy are both examples of organic shape, “Organic forms are more natural, as found in nature.” Even though a slide is a man-made object the shape and feel of this one flows like a river. 

·        Texture: While this is a picture that you can not feel I believe it has texture because on how well it was taken.  You can see (feel) the curves, bumps and lumps on this slide. 

·        Value: Many different tones are throughout the Yellow of this picture, there are parts that are lit up in the sun, parts that are straight shots of yellow and parts that are paler in the shadows. 

·        Focal Point: Max is clearly the focal point of this picture, “perhaps the curve of the line in the layout leads to the focal point.” Your eyes are drawn to him.  But actually the reason I love this picture so much is because of the look of pure joy in his face, as if riding this slide was the best thing ever. 

·        Contrast: as mentioned before in value the use of light and shadows keeps this photo interesting.  The fact that the slide bright yellow and the subject is dressed in black and grey provides contrast and therefore makes the picture more interesting as well. 

·        Unity: All parts of this picture work together. They “have visual links or relationships to one another.”

PS My kid is too cute and that’s why I love this picture!

The second picture is the shoe on the beach.

·        Line: There is a natural line in this photo caused by the horizon and then again where the beach meets the water.  They are continuous lines, and they do guide the eye but the question is, where?

·        Shape: The shapes and lines, for that matter, in this picture are organic because they are formed by nature. 

·        Texture: the element of texture screams out in this picture, you can “feel” the rough sand and the tattered shoe.

·        Focal Point: I think this picture has two which is what Golombisky and Hagen warn about, but it works here.  While for some viewers the shoe appears to be the focal point, my eye is also drawn up and over the water to the right.  I can tie this in with Balance.  Because the background picture is off balance, the right side seems bigger; it actually balances out the entire picture by providing counter-weight against the shoe. Which also ties in Perspective, the shoe seems bigger than the ocean on one side. 

·        Unity: At first glance these things do not work together.  I think they do! This picture has me creating stories in my head, a dog and his owner playing fetch on the beach and they forgot Rover’s favorite stolen shoe.  A homeless guy who didn’t pack everything when he made himself scarce for the day.  Or did a seagull scavenging through the garbage pick it up and drop it?  The possibilities are endless and that’s what makes it fun!

            On a completely different note, there is an “ad” on page 52 for a candy shop named Mahatma Candy, that name is so clever that I don’t care what the ad looks like I would shop there.  In Brick, there is a new yogurt company called Daddy Yo’s and for the same catchy name I will try it out. 

Stacy

design basics index page 241

Term Paper                     Love Letter

Happy Halloween                         Welcome

I Love you!                                    Serious Adult

Candy and Cupcakes                       Obituaries

Fancy Fancy                                            Suicide Note

O’Hurley’s Pub                    Preschool Poster

Rocky Horror                  annie

You are cordially invited                    We regret to inform you

Ye Old Soda Shop              H & R Block

Computer Repair     Designer gowns

Art Showà                      Family Waiting Areaà

Comic Sans is usually my “go to” font.  It looks handwritten, it is easy to read and it makes “a” in the correct format.  On my blog I picked a fancier handwriting font and I had to enlarge it three times to make it more legible.  

Hi Everyone!
     I made the font on my blog larger because I didn't like the way it looked, and I found it difficult to read.

Stacy

Activity 3 -page 71
     I used this activity like I usually do for everything from classroom layout to, designing invitations for a birthday party. I am not artistic by any stretch of the word but anyone can draw shapes.  That is what Krause seems to be pointing out with this exercise.

    As noted earlier my scanner is not cooperating so again I took pictures of my sketches and am posting them that way.  Enjoy, feel free to ask questions or leave comments.

Activity from page 87- Design a flyer for a toy store.  In designing these two fliers I tried not to violate any of the alignment  "don'ts" mentioned by Krause.

Blog Response #2 Part 1

            For my first part of this week’s blog I am looking at a brochure that was designed by one of the realtors that I worked with at the real estate company.  As I mentioned inn an earlier post, while reading the chapters in white space is not your enemy I was bought back to my days working as a receptionist.  We made hundreds on brochures, flyers and postcards and as I look back committed quite a few sins. I have attached some pictures of the brochure, I tried to scan it but my scanner refused. 

Sin 1- Incessant blinking, does not apply to a brochure.

Sin 2-Warped Photos- Well there are not warped photos, but in an attempt to get a great shot of the front of the house, which they did, they turned the front page of the brochure on its side.  The whole rest goes up and down, this may not be listed as one of our “sins” but it is not aesthetically pleasing to me, so it should be.

Sin 3-Naked photos and Sin 4 Bulky Borders and Boxes- I think these two sins go together for this particular piece.  All the photos have borders, but they are bulky for sure.  Here is why I don’t think these bulky borders are a sin; they appear to be picture frames so it makes each photo look like a tiny picture you would see hanging in a house. 

Sin 5-Cheated Margins-no, all the margins fit, nothing has been cheated to make things fit.

Sin 6- Centering Everything- This one is two fold, each description is centered in its own little text box but the boxes themselves are not overly centered.  For the most part this is ok but in one or two blurbs the centering makes for hard reading, it just doesn’t flow. 

10 ft ceilings through-out 1^st floor

Breathtaking Brazilian

Cherry Hardwood Floors

Decorative Crown Molding

Actually when I look at it the sin is in the wordiness, if you take out the breathtaking Brazilian, which to me sounds like a painful waxing procedure, it works.

Sin 7- 4 Corners & Clutter-No sin committed here, although there is tons on information and pictures they, “group items together that belong together!” Golombisky and Hagen refer to this as the clumping effect. 

Sin 8 & Sin 9 Trapped Negative Space and Busy Backgrounds- there is no negative space on this brochure, no white space either for that matter. Practically every inch of the inside of this brochure is covered by text or photos. 

Sin 10- Tacky Type- On my example there is no Reversing, or Stroking, they don’t use all caps but they do capitalize key words for emphasis like Hardwood Floors in the middle of a line.  His is what I would consider a minor sin.  They don’t underline things.  The thing they do which falls into this category in my mind is they use very ornate handwriting font.  In order to give the brochure and in turn the house the feel of being expensive.  I find this type of font hard to read. 

Sin 11- Bad Bullets- this example contains no bullets, but when I made brochures or flyers while working for this company I was crazy about aligning the bullets and the text. 

            Now that I have picked this flyer to bits time to start creating my own to improve on!   

Slideshow

This is the link to the slideshow I presented for this year's graduation.  My co-worker Renee and I took and gathered all the photos and then I created the slideshow using ProShow Gold.  I hope you like it!

Stacy

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