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Per 1 and 3 - Rich Media
Announcements

• Current Grades are posted

Daily Journal
Go to the Atomic Learning tutorial on iMovie; view the tutorial in the Audio section, #9, fading audio in or out. You will need to log in with username: nsba05; password: atomic.

Classwork
View PSA's of your classmates (location: Courseware/resources/webapps/rich media/RM_p1_PSAs; copy movies to local!); write an original paragraph summarizing the class PSA's. Write about: list all subjects of the PSA's, most memorable PSA and why it was memorable, tips for improving PSAs, etc. Write about two lessons you learned from the PSA's.

• put in your projects tab
• title the page: PSA summary; make sure your name is on paper
  

New Project: Create a short movie in iMovie about a historical person who changed the world; your short movie should tell us why the person was significant and how they changed the world

Details:

• Create a new iMovie project – save in Local! Name: student_name_bio
• length: 45-60 seconds
• opening title
• narration with your voice (voice must be clear and audible)
• tell us why the person changed the world
• music – at least 5 seconds of music made in garageband
• credits page listing who made the movie and others who helped

Pictures:
o use clear pictures - not blurry pictures; check size before downloading
o Use at least 8 pictures from the internet
o use Ken Burns effect on at least 5 pictures
o use transitions between all photos (can be the same transition)
o use at least one effect on a picture - don't overuse effects!
o use enough pictures to get your message across
o allow pictures to show for at least 4 seconds

Resources:

• http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/
• atomicLearning.com
  

Per. 5 Adv. Web1

Daily Journal

• Go to the Atomic Learning tutorial on iMovie; view the tutorial in the Audio section, #9, fading audio in or out. You will need to log in with username: nsba05; password: atomic.
  

• Current Grades are posted

Classwork

Set up iChat camera.

TJ Distance Learning Project

• kickoff with TJ magnet; set up iChat accounts
  

New Project: A Day/Week in the life

Cameras: these students need to download their pictures into iPhoto and turn in cameras to teacher: Danz, Beverly

All students:

New Project: compose new iMovie about your day or week using iMovie; your movie should show us what happens on your day or during your week; movies will be posted to internet

• Create a new iMovie project – save in Local! Name: student_name_day
• opening title
• o Transitions – use wisely

· narration with your voice (voice must be clear and audible)

o Yes, I want to hear your voice!

· music – at least 10 seconds of original music made in garageband

· credits page listing who made the movie and others who helped

· Pictures:

o use Ken Burns effect on at least 5 pictures

o use transitions between all photos (can be the same transition)

o use at least one effect on a picture - don't overuse effects!

o use enough pictures to get your message across

o allow pictures to show for at least 4 seconds

o Use pictures from the internet if you need to help tell story

Resources: http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/