Last Meeting day: Parmethean Boards, Starting a Buisiness, Crating a Logo, Photo shop, illustrator, Indesign (self desscription)

GAETI 2015 Saturday,February 6
Our last meeting. I have learned so much from our meetings , both from the instructors and from my fellow teachers. I believe we have a great community of experts and resources.


Parmethean Board Tutorial
Today Justin Putman, a teacher and tech guy, came to instruct us on the ins and the outs of using a board. Today I learned that the Parmethean Active Panel is the way to go. He advised if buying new tools it is better and has longer life than a projector. It looks like a large tv screen  but it is sturdier than an smart board. ACTIVEINSPIRE  is free softwares and may be downloaded on any computer..

He reminded us about YTD YouTube Downloader lets you download videos for FREE. JUST DON'T SELL ANYTHING!
I want to write a grant to get one, I don't have a projector anymore and I need this!

Creating a Logo
Wow I had never seen some of the images in advertizers
Amazon has A-Z i had never seen before
Google -glasses

In the brands there are hidden messages, companies spend alot of money
Key Terms
Image resoulution
Digital Image

Made up of pixels
A pixel picture element is a tiny single point.
Image Resolution
The number of pixels or dots per linear unit of output

4K is the pixel within a monitor screen
HD is smaller than full HD

more mixels
Resouliton means more dots
optimize your
Rosolution
For web, gnerally 72 to 96 pixels per inch-take a close look at pixel dimensions
for pring-out
300 dots per inch dpi for genereal documents
600 dpi for higher quality documents
1200 for photos

When building a brand  Nike and Apple are using the same Font

Serif font
some embelishments within the letter
Times New Roman
Georgia
Gaaramond
Business cards
Letter Heads
Flyers

Sans-serif font (without embelishments)
Arial
Verdana
Calibri

Serif font
Heading for print documents

Sans-erif font
Body text for print documents
On-screen text

What color do you want to use for your Business

RGB mode (REd/Green/Blue)
Mainly used in electronic devices ( all the monitors )

CMYK (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow?key)
Used to create colors

Colors
Every University and big company has regulations for their publications

Search Google:  Hexadecimal color code

Obtaining Digital Images

Digital cameras
Scanner
Digital image collections (CD/DVD)
Online


Classroom use of images fall under fair use laws
Take a picture of yourself

Graphic  Formats

Two categories
Raster (bitmapped)  these will be pixelated when enlarged
Vector (object-based)


Image Formats
Legal and Ethical Use of Image
Copyright
Fair use

Do not use images from the web without permision

EASY ONLINE TOOL

CANVA


Use Google Chrome or Firefox  do not use Explorer
Free account log in with gmail, or facebook account

Go to Learn to design
To learn how to do it follow the three tutorials to do different phases of the project, it is self explanitory and easy.

HINT: use SAME colors dont use different colors

Mississippi State University
now has online degreed Department of Instructional System and Workforce Development

MSIT


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I signed up for Twitter
I created a Google Earth Tour today on Puerto Rico I cant wait to use it to teach about each country and have my students create a tour of cities  and restaurants in each country.

Google Earth Pro I am going to sign up for it for my student PCs

Dictation apps to try will be Dragon dictate, grate for dyslexia students
Mountain Lion is also a great resource

PRISM-  highlighting text via computers
VERSO- self contained twitter-on computer

I loved the gifts we got today and I appreciate the work Dr. Bracey

GAETI DAY 20: SURVEY, CEUS, SHOW AND TELL OUR WEBSITES AND PROJECTS, LAST DAY

Today has been a great day. Its our last day. I'm sorry I did not BLOG yesterday, but I was working on my lesson plan.  I worked until 7:00 and stayed up to 1:00 am in the morning. 

I am so glad to have been chosen to be a part of this journey for the past month. I have attended each day and I learned so many things from all the profesionals.

We traveled to a coal mine in Mississippi, we visited art display, archeology and geological museums on MSU campus.

The IHL grant has been a blessing to me as a teacher because I am interested in technology but I needed one on one training.

I learned how to BLOG, how to incorporate technology in my lessons.  Creating a Weebly, and creating links for activities on my assignments would be great for my students. Wordle will help my students learn vocabulary, Remind 101 to contact my students is great.

I enjoyed creating my art project.
Everything was great.

GAETI DAY 18, Infographics, Padlet.ccom, Buble.us,

Today we went over INFOGRAPHIC materials on the web. we looked at

 https://www.padlet.com
  https:// www.bubble.us.com

Creating digital content Infographic is used to show share the date with others
https://www.Piktochart.com is a tool, thatis used to create graphic for school, blocks are used to place info

AUDIO FILE
For my spanish classes I will be able to use: select a picture and the describe it by recording using audioboom, its free, and it allows a 10 minute maximum usage. More than enough for my beggining students.

 https://www.audioboom.com 

CANVAS
We learned to create a new course on canvas.
Its free but there is a file size. But its not much of a problem.

Inbox, you can sent a message to students and teachers.
Dashboard create a new course go to New Course, write course name, create course
We looked at CANVAS modules and creating new pages
Module Rubrics was a great.


Today I actually uploaded a video on YouTube today with Flat Stanley, Esteban el Plano, Hope and I worked on this this week. We are planning on using it in our classes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ev5ORL-xB9E

GAETI Dia 16: Finish Video, Art, Lesson Plan

Today Hope and I organized our video clips and finished our movie. We had written the dialog and I recorded it using my voice. Together we choose the clips and organized them in the order we wanted to tell our story. Hope worked on some of the special effects like adding music, the Callout. We had fun doing the project. We discussed how it is possible that our students may be grouped in twos or three but no more. I can't wait to show it to my students.

I worked on the background for my art project today, and cleaned my glass coffee pot. Can't wait to finish it. I was disappointed that the frame will have to come out of my pocket.

Worked on my lesson plan today, I need to create a power point and down load some videos (Salsa Music) from YouTube.

GAETI 2015: DAY 16-DIA DIECISEIS; LETTER TO DISTRICT, MOVIE WITH FLATSTANLEY, LESSON PLAN

Monday morning
Today we completed our letter to our Districts for technology advancement. Having students bring their own devices is a cultural transition. The fears in the communities are genuine, worries about children being exposed to child predators, addictions to technology do rob children from their play times and parents want to be in charge WHEN they feel that their child is ready to tackle the world of technology. Lot of real issues and hurdles to overcome in the technology advancement.

Today we finished producing a practice movie. And  today Hope and I went on an adventure, creating our own FlatStanley story. We want to prepare a story in spanish so we could use with our students and have them create their adventure with him when school starts. It took us a while with thinking about what we wanted to cover, considering the level of Spanish that our students are learning.  We went to the library, the footbal stadium (outside), we walked over to the Barnes and Nobles and actually left him on a counter and had to run back to get him. It was hot today. Then we took him to Subway to have lunch and we helped him to go home in an envelope at the Post Office.I cant wait to download the videos and work on the speaking and music part.

After lunch we worked on our lesson plans. I changed mine to music, I want to cover music this year with my second year students and holidays with my first year students.

We are finishing the day with art.

GAETI DAY 15; DIA QUINCE Federal Reserve, Prezi, Art, Digital Story with Fantcia

Federal Reserve
It was great to see the lady from the Federal Reserve, she brought alot of resources for each person. She explained the procedures for the money trail.

The Librarian brought us  Prezi
and worked on a movie