Student+Notes

Wednesday, Feb 24 Downloading video to hard drive

Wednesday, Feb 17 Using the Flip cameras for recording share projects

Wednesday, January 20 Now that we have so many great photos from our MLK event, we need to edit them and export them to a good small size for our website.

Open up iPhoto. Drag your photo OR folder of photos to the icon on the left panel of iPhoto that says Photos (Events will work too). Your pictures will be imported into iPhoto. You will find them if you scroll to the last Event or last Photo in your iPhoto.

Now we want to create an album of the photos. Click on the Event you just imported. Go to the "plus" sign at the bottom of the left column. You will get a window to name your album. Then click Create. You now have an album of your pictures. It should show up in the left side under album. If you want to add more pictures to the album, just drag them in from Photos or Events.

Now we want to edit the pictures. Open your album. Double click on the photo you want to edit. GO TO PHOTOS, DUPLICATE--this way you will have an original and one to edit, just in case. Click Edit. You can crop, enhance, straighten etc. When you are finished, click done. Then double click the edited photo and pull down the menu and select "Export" You will get a window with 4 tabs. You should select File Export. Change JPEG Quality to low(smallest size). Change size to small. Click export. Name the photo something new that describes the picture. Click OK. You will find the photo on your desktop. Now you can import it into the website.

Wednesday, January 5: How to insert a podcast.

The most important part of inserting a podcast is how you save it when it is in Garage Band
 * Open the file you created in Garage Band
 * Go to the "Share" Menu at the top-pull it down to "Export Podcast to Disk"


 * [[image:podcast_save.png width="207" height="170" align="left"]]

On this menu just leave everything as it is. click Export


 * Next, name your file. Make sure you send it to the Desktop
 * Look for it on your desktop--it will be an mp4 file. You don't want it to be mp4, so click on the name of the file and change the .mp4 to .mov. In my example, the file was my podcast test.mp4. I clicked on the name and renamed it my podcast test.mov [[image:podcast_save_3.png width="88" height="52"]] to [[image:podcast_save_4.png width="92" height="55"]]


 * Now you can upload it to the site. Go to the same icon for uploading pictures and find it on your desktop. Upload it and insert it.
 * You will see a Video Player icon when you insert it. When you save, it becomes a quicktime movie you can play! Click save

Tuesday: December 15: Today we will: Go to the page you are working on Click on Edit On the Editor toolbar, click on the insert table icon (next to the TV) You will get a window that asks you the size of the table: In most cases you want 2 by 1 When the table appears (It will be VERY light and hard to see) Click in the first "cell". Insert a picture. It will appear in the first cell. Make the picture smaller by using the File Properties - button. Now click on the second cell- next to where you inserted the picture. Begin to type here. Make the text go across the page only as far as you want it to go and then hit return for the next line. It should look like this:
 * Create a new personal page: Remember how to navigate to your new page since it is not on the sidebar!
 * Learn how to use tables on a page
 * Insert graphics and text using tables


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Go to Photobooth. Using the record video button and make a 1 minute video telling 3 things about yourself. On the bottom of the window, find the video you made (last one on the right) and drag it to the desktop. RENAME IT-with your name. Go to your personal page. Edit. Insert Images and Files. Upload a single file. Browse for your video on your desktop Insert. SAVE. Your video should show up
 * Create a short video using Photobooth to imbed on our pages

Tuesday, December 8: Today we will:

Create a Wordle: Go to http://www.wordle.net Learn how to make a screen shot: command, shift, 4 Use Fotoflexer to edit the size. Go to http://www.fotoflexer.com Create and edit a page in Wikispaces. Upload our wordle. Edit some of the pictures you gathered from Microsoft.

Tuesday, December 1: Today we'll talk about: How to: Get to our site, accept the invitation, SAVE your name and password How to: Edit a page Go to the Discussion Tab. Click on my topic "My Strengths" Create a response to the questions about your strengths. SAVE Look at other students' responses. Making a page with your strengths Finding a graphic for your section