Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Week 4

Just to let everyone know...................QUIZZES done!!!!
BEFUNKY!!!
I like the BEFUNKY!! What a great little tool to have students engage with. Great for projects and manipulate their photographs. I chose my black & white wedding photo; and as you may see I managed to add some color.
I have a few photo tools on my mobile and I must say I really like this one. The most important thing I found when "playing" with it is to press the APPLY button when you have made changes to any image.
As I found, I love the black & white effect adding the color to enhance certain features. You cannot see them but my eyes are violet; they are usually hazel!





Features:
  • Drag the photo to where you want so you can work on it
  • great for black & whitew
  • change brush size to work on smaller areas
  • enlarge image by sliding the history bar across
  • wrinkle remover works a TREAT!
  • before dragging photo ensure you are not about to change anything otherwise it will give you color in the wrong spot.
I will keep playing with this ones because you can go into the effects tab and manipulate color, saturation etc. LUV IT!
Click on the image and you will not find one wrinkle............yes! I can look like I am 20 again. 
MOBAPHOTO................
I went in and had a play.............with MOBAPHOTO. Yep easy. I chose a couple of photos and re-sized them Simple. I went back into the properties section of the image and checked the sizes. Yes, they were different. Dimensions went from: 1504 (w) x 2256 (H) > 512 (W) x 768 (H). Will be great for students for projects. The benefit I found was a time factor: less time waiting for an image to upload. The negative I found was the initial download. It gave an option of external mirror 1 or 2. What does that mean?

I don't know if anyone else has had a problem but I just realised that if I don't tab down to the next line after the last word it will change my font. Do you know how frustrating that is to just figure that out????????
I read through half and skimmed the rest the Global Imperative: Report of the 21st Century Summit. OMGoodness.........why can they not just say,
"Todays youth are more in tune with the technology side of things than we are. We as teachers need to be able to learn it, engage with it and then teach it to our students. The 21st century learner already has the language and the ability to use these technologies and are waiting for teachers to teach them in a digital world. They are the Digital Natives and we as Digital Immigrants need to teach it to them or they will get bored". That makes sense to me!!!! There are so many reports for this and that and they are all saying the same thing!!!! Teachers GET WITH THE TIMES!!!! Am I right????

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkGaPZHJEUU&feature=youtu.be
 My first attempt at moviemaker and upload to youtube..............................ever! I must say; I am happy with my creation. The hardest bit was uploading to youtube. Once I figured that out it was ok. Safety when uploading anything to youtube is important. I was careful with what I included into moviemaker.









 

1 comment:

  1. It's such a relief to know they are done isn't it. Go us!!!

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