Extra for experts: Waht about CSS? XHTML? Standards compliance?
File name: My Issues
Keywords: Issues, Cashmere
For your collections project, you need to "consult the stakeholders". This means to ask questions of the person who owns the collection and anyone else who might care about it. Your goal is to understand the collection as well as possible, and to get some idea of what problems the collector has that you could help with. Good questions start with these words:
Please write a list of questions for your collector, either my father Frank or a person of your choice. Email your questions to me. If your collector is not Frank, you should also either eamil your collector if you know their email address, or print the questions to take home for homework.
2. Preparation for Multimedia
Next term, we will spend a couple of weeks looking at multimedia, and we will make a story using PhotoStory. You can find the story here. Your job to day is to find (or create using Paint etc) pictures that will let you tell the story. I suggest you use Google images and save the images you find (right-click, save picture...) in a folder called shark story inside your DigiTech folder.
Then use the right-hand menu on the same page to make brief notes on the different sorts of applications:
Then do the quiz.
Your period's work should either be posted on your blog or emailed to fy@cashmere.school.nz
Things to do with software:
Don't just copy and paste the questions!
Do write full sentences and paragraphs!
Note that it will be marked by Cashmere teachers and then sent away for external marking with your folder.
I suggest that you do all this before finally exporting/rendering your project files!
The result of this stage might look like this:
ArtsCentre1: no. Better to use a still, but Art Gallery is not going to attract young people much.
Botanic Gardens: yes, but needs trimming at both ends, to give 10 seconds. Would be good to get a shot of canoes on river.
Interesting discussion: Storyboard before or after selecting footage? If you were taking your own footage, I would suggest storyboarding first. However when you have video clips given to you it makes better sense to decide which are good enough to use and how long they are before storyboarding.
And MUST means MUST!
Finding copyright-free material can be a challenge. When looking for still images, use Google Advanced Images Search and under Usage Rights select "labeled for reuse". At home, you could try Flickr - amateur photographers are often keen to share their work.
You may not use mp3 files, even if you own the CD. If you want to read more about the laws around this, try these sites:
Her clips include
She says that keeping the action and narration fast is important, and aims to keep the videos short.
This list of rules came from my head, but I also looked at these websites to help me:
Relevance to my project
In my project I am making a website for my client XXXX. Because they are going to use this website to get people to join their organisation, it is important that it is a high quality website and I want to follow these rules which are important to me.
Screen shot of work
A screen shot of the file structure would provide evidence of rules 1 and 2.
A photo of your sketched page layout would provide evidence of rule 4 and possibly rules 3 and 5.
Evidence for rule 6 could be a screen shot of copyright policy from an image site, or permission to use from the owner of an image.
Evaluation (written after the project is finished)
I followed these rules carefully. It was hard finding copyright-free images of the ****. Breaking the content of each page up into small chunks was good because I had to make sure that I understood it all. I am pleased with my finished website, and the client says "I am thrilled with what you have done for me. It looks really professional. And I love the colour scheme!"
There is a file in iNet that you can use to do this with, called - wait for it! - Code of Practice.
In the top left box, you put the rules in yoru own words, and where you found them.
In the bottom left box, you explain how you have used these rules in your project.
In the top right box you can put a screen shot or other picture of your work.
In the bottom right box, you write about how well you have done this part of your project.
You will need to work on Codes of Practice several times during your project. The one we started tow ork on in class was about writing a survey to collect information. Other possible topics to do Codes of Practice for are
I suggest that you do at least three relevant Codes of Practice, and show this in your (revised) Gantt chart as happening throughout your project.
Hardware available:
If you want to take your own video or still photos, you are welcome to do this with your own gear in your own time.
Your refined brief is written after you have done some research and consultation. It will include more details of what the solution will involve - these are called specifications. Also, any things that are definitely required - these are called constraints. You can do it by taking your inital brief and adding more details about the problem and solution.
Today, please work throught these questions, recording your thoughts and what you find on the Internet in a Word document.
1. On page 1, fill in your name and form class
2. On page 2, fill in the name of the person whose collection you are doing your project on, describe their collection in as much detail as possible, identify your stakeholders and say how they will be affected
3. On page 3, fill in what questions you need to ask your stakeholders and decide how you will ask them - you may print a one page survey, or email your questions. Do some research on similar collections and record your results.
4. On page 4, fill in what your stakeholders would like in their ideal solution.
5. On page 5, fill in the problem statement, describing your main stakeholder’s problem; under constraints, fill in due date = Thursday 9th April, solution must be on my page of the wiki ; under attributes, describe the special features of your planned solution; under resources, describe what you will need to solve the problem.
6. On page 6, think about something you have planned recently and answer the questions.
7. On page 7, write a list of all the steps you will need to take to solve the problem. Then make sure they are in a sensible order. Split up the jobs so that you know when each is to be done, remembering the due date
8. Use page 8 and 9 to plan your wiki page and any other Internet resources you will use. Add extra pages if you need to.
9. Make your wiki page and other Internet resources.
10. Link your page to and from other parts of the wiki
11. Contribute to other people’s wiki pages
12. Finally, evaluate your solution on page 10 of the booklet.
13. Print out your booklet front page and hand in.
For example, an Internet browser is a type of software. An example of an Internet browser is Internet Explorer.
Links that may be helpful are:
DigiTech careers
Competitions
Further Studies
Articles
By Diane Hammond 2005
ISBN 0-385-50944-8
This is a five star book.
Themes of love, family, friendship, faithfulness, privilege and parenting are treated in a very sensitive fashion.
Sections I particularly enjoyed:
“You know what you end up asking yourself?” Fanny said. “How little can I live with? You ask yourself how little can I live with, and how much do I need. And the answer keeps getting smaller, and your marriage keeps shrinking. In the beginning it fits fine, you know, roomy enough to keep you warm, and you can move all around in it. Then you have the kids, and when your husband stay away from you, you’re mostly glad, because They just get in the way, and who gives a shit about sex when you haven’t had two minutes to yourself in five years? And all that time your marriage is getting smaller and smaller, except you don’t notice because it hasn’t occurred to you to notice, and why should you? You just pull it down and stretch it out, and if you feel a draft now and then, you ignore it because you don’t have time to deal with ti anyway. By the time you do, your marriage is this little tiny thing that doesn’t cover shit and you’re freezing to death out there in the cold.”
ISBN 0-553-10935-9
This “novel of suspense” is another instalment in the life of Benjamin January. Sequentially, the first few pages precede and the bulk of the story follows A Free Man of Color. Tales of piracy and hurricanes, of love and slavery, of treasure and illness, of mosquitoes and alligators, of fire and flood – a good holiday read. Characters also sympathetically described, and relationships drawn with a fine brush. As a teacher, I enjoyed my first meeting with Rose Vitrac, who tutored
Waking up at
My pondering was around the idea of representing the view artistically. The sky asked to be rendered in water paint. The foreground suggested embroidery. The hills could be brocade, or oil paint. But what about the waves? They need to be video, or at least animated, because they are moving.
So the next question became, why is video always rectangular? There is an obvious and easy answer – because the screen/viewing space is rectangular. But that does not satisfy me, and when I get back to “civilisation” I will be talking to my media studies contacts and filmmaking friends about whether any work has been done on non-rectangular film.
And then, how could we create the described multimedia product – a combination of digital and analogue media is truly MULTImedia!
We could digitise the painting and collage and set it as an irregularly shaped border to our video somehow. But then the result is all digital.
Or we could overlay the water paint and collage on a rectangular screen, with just the waves showing. But I want more than that.
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Michael Crichton (2006)
James Patterson with Peter de Jonge (2006, ISBN 9780755323135)
Different from my normal choice of reading and not part of my progression through writers starting with H, I picked this up to bring to Rotorua with me. Small enough to fit in my laptop bag and not too heavy either physically or mentally it has been good for those in between moments presented by the hectic programme of keynotes, breakouts, eating and socialising. The story of a black teenager wrongfully accused of several cold-blooded murders and his defense, it is not as straight forward as it first seems. I did not find it ‘unputdownable’ as The Times is quoted as saying on the back cover, and I did find it hard to get inside the head of the actual murderer. I guess it is written to be read in a hurry and not analysed to death, but I prefer more meat to my reading.
"Zipporah" by Marek Halter
