Info Night and Movie Making Program
Last night was the Parent Teacher Information Night at Curl Curl. Went really well. Talked about the class wiki I had created and the implications and uses it has. Couldn’t show everyone because I didn’t have a cable long enough for the net.. Doh! I also said ( jokingly) that they didn’t have to be [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Youtube dramas
I spent a lot of yersterdya working through the idea of recording on IWBs the pages or files that are displayed on your screen and saving this as a video. It took a lot longer than expected due to the fact that when I finally got the presntation finished and recorded my wiki didn’t allow [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Picasa exporting and Activstudio
Have been trying to work out ways in which to export a video that I make using Picasa into wikis and blogs. At the moment it is only possible to embed the file into a wiki using the embedding widget but it seems to then connect to the web video files… not just have the [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Wiki Session
I ran a Wiki session for the teachers last Thursday at Curl Curl North which had a positive turn out. Seems like most have gone through the motions in joining one early this term but havent really done much else since then. I went through the use of a Wiki and how I have set [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Class Wiki, Film Making and Tim Winton
Yesterday I spent a great deal of the day finding out information about Tim Winton. I am attempting to organise a video conference with him for teachers adn possibly students but it’s a pretty difficult task. No contacts on the web at all and a pretty solid covering behind a publisher and agent who is [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Wikis and DET filtering
Doesn’t this just sound like the most exciting blog entry ever in the history of mankind. No I seriously learnt alot today.. yet again. I worked heaps on the class wiki I have set up for next term today. I learnt about guidelines and what I should and shouldn’t have in a wiki. I had [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Web 2.0 tools and Wikis
I will keep it short and sweet today. Spent the majority of the day looking at the tools we use such as me.edu.au, blogs, rss feeds and finally wikis. I was most interested in the use of wikis and how to set one up with my class. I learnt heaps today and at one time [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)VC and PS
Was working on a couple of video tutorials in Photoshop that seemed fairly easy this morning. Im goinig to work through some of the harder elements this afternoon. Just watched and participated in a video conference with St Ives High School, St Ives PS, Gordon East PS and Murrumburrah PS. It was a 20 question [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (1)Garageband and Syllabus Stuff
Today I spent a little time on making a song for a video/film I made on animoto. I then imported it into itunes so I could use it etc. I then spent a lot of the day looking for relevant sites for film making and how to make it into a relevant unit of work [...]
Filed under Uncategorized | Comment (0)Photoshop again
I was working on these two pics this morning when looking at colour replacement and extracting images from a background. Today I have been pretty much working on Photoshop since I arrived at work. It’s a complicated program at times but I am slowly beginning to understand some of the features. I was using [...]
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