224+126, Week 35, Day Three, Photobooth+My Name+HW 2

Good morning.

Welcome to day 3 of Creative Writing. Open your journal and get started. Check this website everyday for tips, instructions and assignments. Below is the agenda for the day:

• Write your daily thoughts.
• Go to Day 3 in your journal and begin writing about your name.
• Get out your homework and place it on your work station table top. (*If you forgot, ask for a note card from Mr. Loreto)
• Introduction to Photo Booth (Beginner’s Guide to Photo Booth for Review)
• Your Photo Booth Assignment: You need to take the following 7  photographs.
• 3 photographs of you (portrait, right profile,  and left profile), 4 photographs of your HW assignment.
• Save all your photographs in your folder and rename them all.
• Delete all photographs from Photo Booth.
• Save
• Logout

316, Week 24, Creative Writing

Friday, March 6, 2010

• Journal: Write about your homework assignment. If you do not have it with you, just think about it and write. Click on this link for an example.
• Write about these three questions in your journal:
• Describe your homework object. (use your senses. sight. smell.touch.taste.sound.) You may write a list or an essay.
  What is your first memory of that object?
  What are things you think of when you have that object with you….
• Photobooth/Internet Search:
• Take pictures of your homework assignment (four pictures and put them into your photograph folder).
• Search the internet for 4 more photographs of your homework assignment (eight if you did not bring in your homework put them into your photograph folder).

Thursdsay, March 5, 2010

• Journal 2: Dreams!
• Daily Check in
• Grade Tracking Sheet
  Day 2 Journal
• Photobooth (New Section)
• Take four photographs
• Save them into your folder
• Put one into your journal. Write a description about it in your journal.

Wednesday, March 4, 2010

• Welcome to Creative Writing.
• Create a journal.
• First journal writing….

Using Photo Booth: A Beginner’s Guide

Apple computers come with a built in camera that is used in a fun portrait photography program called Photo Booth.

Getting Started.

You will find your Photo Booth Icon on the bottom of your screen in the dock. Click on this icon once and it will open up the program. Once it opens, you will see a green light appear on the top of your screen in  the black frame. You will also see the Photo Booth window appear. And you will likely see your face appear in the window as your camera is ready to take a picture.

Photo Booth Window

The window that appears is smaller than most application windows. Below are a list of features you should be aware of in your Photo Booth Window.

• There are three circles on the top left hand corner to close and minimize. There is no option to make the window bigger.
• The toolbar is in the center of the window underneath the screen that displays the camera view or photos taken.
• There are five buttons.
• The three buttons on the left determine the mode of the camera (still photograph portrait, a group of four still photograph portraits and a video option).
• The center button is the shutter/record button. When you click it, you will take a photograph or video.
• The last button is an effects feature that allows you change backgrounds or the lens of the camera.

Taking a Picture

1. Turn on Photo Booth.
2. Select still photograph portrait or  a group of four still photograph portraits.
3. Click Shutter/Record Button.
4. Wait for countdown (3…. 2…. 1….)
5. Smile.
6. Picture will appear as a film strip on the bottom.

127 and 223, Week 20 Agenda and Assignments.

• LOG IN to your computer (User: Student)
• OPEN Class Website (Use Firefox to open website, writeichms.wordpress.com)
• OPEN your folder (Click on Finder “Smiley Face” icon in your Dock)
• OPEN your journal (Open your Pages file from your folder)
• Select a journal topic to write about from the class website reading the website entries tagged “Journal”.
• Or write about the following:

1. What is on your mind?
2. How you are feeling?
3. Something that learned
4. Or  ask Mr. Loreto for a writing idea.

• Check- in

Monday, February 1, 2010.

Welcome to February. Write in your journal today. Reflect on how January was and how February will be.
Today we will review Keynote and complete our first slide show. By the end of class, you should be done with your first slide show.

Lesson. Today we will review by table group, how to add transitions into your slides. You should complete your HW slide show by the end of class.

The following list is a guide to your slide show and what should be on each slide:

• Slide 1: Title and Heading
• Slide 2: 1st Journal Entry
• Slide 3: Photograph
• Slide 4: What is it?
• Slide 5: Photograph
• Slide 6: How did I get it?
• Slide 7: Photograph
• Slide 8: How did I get it?
• Slide 9: Photograph
• Slide 10: Tell A Story
• Slide 11: Credits
• Slide 12: Thank You
• Slide 13: Blank

Tuesday, February 2, 2010.

Start. Take this survey before you start your journal, 5 Fundamentals Student Survey.

In your journal, write using the prompt, “If I were President…” In the United States of America, we have a leader known as the President. Think about the responsibilities and powers that our President, currently Barrack Obama, possesses. What would you do if you had those responsibilities and powers?

Some powers and responsibilities the President has:
The President makes bills into Laws.
The President is the commander of the United States military.
The President proposes a budget that shows how the government will spend it’s money.

Lesson. Video on Photo Booth.
Read one of your journal entries on camera. That journal will turn into your next slide show.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

In your journal, write 5 things that you like and explain why. It can be anything, as long as it is a THING. It can not be a person, it must be a thing. It can not be a place, it must be a thing.

Lesson. We will be creating slide shows and adding video in the slide show.

Thursday, February 4, 2010.

In your journal, write using one of the following prompts and explain why that statement is true for you.
One thing I’ve learned….
One thing I would like to learn.

Lesson. Importing/Sharing slide shows to student folders.

Friday, February 5, 2010.

Today is a workshop day. You have an opportunity to finish any journals you have not completed, find a different one from the Right to Write blog and/or finish a slide show assignment. If you have any questions. Please ask Mr. Loreto for help.

Example for Homework Video

8th Grade Week 10 Agenda Creative Writing 2009-2010

Monday, November 9, 2009

INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING
1.Checkin/Introduction/Seating Cards
*Students take a seat at a computer work
station (they must choose carefully
because that will be their assigned seat)
*Introduction to Creative Writing Keynote
2. Expectations of Room 313
*Introduction to Creative Writing Keynote
*Students will be asked to GRRR!
(Respect yourself)
(Respect others)
(Respect your school)
3. Orientation to your iMac
*Introduction to Creative Writing Keynote
(Login)
(Opening Firefox)
(Introduction to class website,
writeichms.wordpress.com)
Pages/Journal
*Students create a journal document in
pages
*Save to a student created folder saved
on the computer hard drive
5. Save/Logout
6. Check out/Dismissal

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

STEP INTO PHOTO BOOTH

1. Login/Check Website/Journal
2. Checkin
3. Photobooth Introduction
4. TAKE 10 Still photos using various Photo Booth Effects
5. Save
6. Logout
7. Checkout
8. Dismissal

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

No Class in Observation of Veteran’s Day

Thursday, November 12, 2009

STEP INTO THE PHOTO BOOTH, II

1. Login /Check Website /Journal
2. Check-In
3. Complete 30 second interview
4. clips with Photobooth (Students will be asked to complete at least 3 different 30 second clips)
5. Saving Photobooth images and movies to your folder
6. Rename files of images and movies
7. Save
8. Logout
9. Check Out
10. Dismissal

Friday, November 13, 2009

STEP INTO THE PHOTO BOOTH, III

1. Login
2. Check Website
3. Journal
4. Check-In
5. Complete 30 second interview
6. clips with Photobooth (Students will be asked to complete at least 3 different 30 second clips)
7. Saving Photobooth images and movies to your folder
8. Rename files of images and movies
9. Save
10. Logout
11. Check Out
12. Dismissal