Agenda

Sorry I should have posted this before, but I did not want to fill the page of posts until you saw my intro - here is what we did yesterday, what we are doing today and tomorrow.

K

Day 1 Aug 29
AM – WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
8:30 Reception and welcome –
NB. There will be no formal morning or afternoon break – please take breaks and refreshment as needed during work times.

9:00 Some recent facts and insights re: New Media, Education and the Arts
New Achievement Chart

9:15 Intro to the digital world – saying hello with instant messaging in TEL
Personal Reflections on best and worst experiences with technology
Discussion on PM, IM and it’s cultural impact on youth culture.

10:15 Web logs or “Blogging” –
Discussion of the nature of blogs and their cultural impact on youth culture
Our group blog is live now and can be reached at:
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/

10:30 Intro to Photo web logs and image storage services on the web

11:00 Internet Literacy and the legal
• “The legal”:copyright and other things
• Alan November and Internet Literacy
• how to get images online
• Image collection – finding images on the web and image filing and collection
• Collaborative list building of sources – to be created in out blog
• Images collection
• Images storage and presentation
• Website reference collection and storage – Looking at Art Resource

12:00 to 1pm Lunch and open studio - Sharing image collections - optional

PM – Content and Curriculum connections
1:00 – 3:00
Making Connections to the Curriculum – handout
Collection images in iPhoto – websites in a browser.
Beginning to flesh out Lesson Plan Template

3:00 – plan and homework for tomorrow:
Tomorrow we will be playing with: iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes and iDVD.
Please feel free to bring CDs of favourite songs and digitized pictures with you that relate to your theme as we will be creating illustrated slide shows podcasts and movies.


Day 2

9:00 Looking at Multimedia Components
Although we will be using Macintosh software for this section equivalent software is available for Windows for most functions.

Applications PC equivalent (or similar app)
iPhoto Software that comes with your digital camera
iTunes Windows Media Player
iMovie Movie Maker
Garageband Band in a Box?
Podcast software – Garageband ???
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash
Keynote Powerpoint


9:00 Playing with images - Collecting and organizing images in iPhoto – resizing and correcting in Photoshop

9:30 Playing with Sound – collecting songs: iTunes(WMP) and making your own:Garageband(Band in a Box)

11:00 Methods for putting it all together – Keynote/Powerpoint, iMovie, Podcast.

12:00 Lunch –

1:00 How to make a really cool slide show in iMovie.

3:00 show animation 101 to get people interested in animation – and talk about this method.

Day 3

9:00 Looking at Animations and short films –

10:00 How to get things moving in flash – creating an animated poem.

12:00 Lunch and capturing motion.

1:00 creating an animated poem?

2:30 – sharing.

My plans for each day

Sorry I should have posted this before, but I did not want to fill the page of posts until you saw my intro - here is what we did yesterday, what we are doing today and tomorrow.

K

Day 1 Aug 29
AM – WELCOME TO THE DIGITAL WORLD
8:30 Reception and welcome –
NB. There will be no formal morning or afternoon break – please take breaks and refreshment as needed during work times.

9:00 Some recent facts and insights re: New Media, Education and the Arts
New Achievement Chart

9:15 Intro to the digital world – saying hello with instant messaging in TEL
Personal Reflections on best and worst experiences with technology
Discussion on PM, IM and it’s cultural impact on youth culture.

10:15 Web logs or “Blogging” –
Discussion of the nature of blogs and their cultural impact on youth culture
Our group blog is live now and can be reached at:
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/

10:30 Intro to Photo web logs and image storage services on the web

11:00 Internet Literacy and the legal
• “The legal”:copyright and other things
• Alan November and Internet Literacy
• how to get images online
• Image collection – finding images on the web and image filing and collection
• Collaborative list building of sources – to be created in out blog
• Images collection
• Images storage and presentation
• Website reference collection and storage – Looking at Art Resource

12:00 to 1pm Lunch and open studio - Sharing image collections - optional

PM – Content and Curriculum connections
1:00 – 3:00
Making Connections to the Curriculum – handout
Collection images in iPhoto – websites in a browser.
Beginning to flesh out Lesson Plan Template

3:00 – plan and homework for tomorrow:
Tomorrow we will be playing with: iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes and iDVD.
Please feel free to bring CDs of favourite songs and digitized pictures with you that relate to your theme as we will be creating illustrated slide shows podcasts and movies.


Day 2

9:00 Looking at Multimedia Components
Although we will be using Macintosh software for this section equivalent software is available for Windows for most functions.

Applications PC equivalent (or similar app)
iPhoto Software that comes with your digital camera
iTunes Windows Media Player
iMovie Movie Maker
Garageband Band in a Box?
Podcast software – Garageband ???
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Photoshop
Macromedia Flash Macromedia Flash
Keynote Powerpoint


9:00 Playing with images - Collecting and organizing images in iPhoto – resizing and correcting in Photoshop

9:30 Playing with Sound – collecting songs: iTunes(WMP) and making your own:Garageband(Band in a Box)

11:00 Methods for putting it all together – Keynote/Powerpoint, iMovie, Podcast.

12:00 Lunch –

1:00 How to make a really cool slide show in iMovie.

3:00 show animation 101 to get people interested in animation – and talk about this method.

Day 3

9:00 Looking at Animations and short films –

10:00 How to get things moving in flash – creating an animated poem.

12:00 Lunch and capturing motion.

1:00 creating an animated poem?

2:30 – sharing.

Moving Into Day 2

Well things seemed to go quite well yesterday. Sorry I promised to do this yesterday, but spinning class got in the way.

Here are the websites we referenced yesterday:

http://www.novemberlearning.com/ - great site re: Internet Literacy
www.blogger.com - for making your own blog
www.flickr.ca - photo blog
www.artcyclopedia.com - great site for art history images and info
http://visualmediarts.blogspot.com/ - my blog

I also have some documents that I will post for this course - you will find them in:

TEL > TDSB conferences > School Services - Program > Visual Arts > Media Arts

I thought this would be better than filling up your email.

Please feel free to comment on this post by adding other great website references.

K

Hello and welcome to my weblog for this Institute

This is an experiment for me. I am trying to use this as a way to give you advance and ongoing information about this course.
I will post the daily agenda of activities here as well as references and links.

In each of the posts, there will be a button that will allow you to comment on or add information to the post or topic posted. Please feel free to enrich this site with your own information and references.

In teaching Visual and Media arts, especially content related to the visual/digital realm, I feel I am more the facillitator and guide and less the sage on the stage - so please add to, correct or challenge what we learn and discuss - it just makes the whole experience richer.

What to bring to the course:

Active TEL acct and your password!

All of the following items are optional - just might be useful or you might have a chance to learn more about them:
Digital camera if you have one
Laptop computer if you have one -please let me know what kind and I will bring needed software
IF you have a memory stick – please feel free to bring one for data storage.

See you next Tuesday

Kathy