Pranav Mistry and the Sixth Sense
January 21, 2010 at 4:26 pm | In tech | Leave a CommentThis video -and the technology that it showcases- is amazing. Be patient with the pace of the presentation. Then be amazed.
Academic Workshop – email your teachers
January 15, 2010 at 1:47 pm | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: academic workshop
Today’s mission: email each of your teachers to check in regarding your academic performance in the class. Include me in each email that you send – my email address is rmilstead@tamdistrict.
- teacher emails are first initial, lastname followed by @tamdistrict.org: rmilstead@tamdistrict.org
- identify yourself
- explain that you are in Academic Workshop
- ask them – using please and thank you- for any time that they can spare
Ask each teacher to reply to you AND to CC me (rmilstead@tamdistrict.org).
Web Design Blogs – commenting
January 15, 2010 at 10:38 am | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: web design
Now that you have some posts running on your blogs it’s time to work with comments. If posts are the skeleton of a blog then it’s the comments that give it strength. Working with your commenters is critical to your blog’s success.
Visit two of your classmates blogs and make an intelligent comment on one of their posts. Here’s the list of blog URL’s that I have. If yours’ is missing let me know:
| http://awm2010.wordpress.com |
Try SCRATCH
January 14, 2010 at 2:03 pm | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: programming
SCRATCH is a new programming tool developed by MIT. It’s comparable to Carnegie Mellon’s ALICE tool that you used last semester. I’d like you to give it a try.
Get started here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Get_Started
Web Design – web critique
January 11, 2010 at 11:50 am | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: web design
Answer the following questions in a blog post.
1. What makes good web design? Remember, I am not talking about content. Just how easy the site is to use and navigate. Give me your thoughts.
2. Find two websites that have good, appealing design. Don’t worry about the content and information on the website. Just think about how easy it is to use the site. For each website list the following:
-the URL of the website – make it a link.
-describe why you think the website has good design. Consider how easy it is to find information on the site (navigation), how well the colors work together and how well images and/or flash are used.
-what elements stand out as good design to you?
-how and why is the design appropriate to the content of the site?
Your web design blog
January 6, 2010 at 11:09 am | In tech | Leave a CommentBlogging is a critical skill for any web-user, whether you are a web designer, content creator, content content consumer or all of the above.
Today you will create a blog for use in this class. Your blog will:
-be the forum for you to offer web design critiques
-a place for you to share your new web-design discoveries, useful tools and thoughts about making web pages
-a place for you to comment on your classmate’s work
Some things to keep in mind Continue reading Your web design blog…
Graphics- the last project
December 14, 2009 at 9:34 am | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: computer graphics
Remember way back at the start of the semester? You made some great posters to advertise the Drake Maker Club.
To wrap up the semester I’d like you to make a flyer (8.5×11) that promotes Computer Graphics to Drake students. Show off your work, your technique and your skills. Use color. Make sure that you set the resolution to 180 so that it prints well.
Details:
-landscape or portrait
-8.5×11 with 180 dpi resolution
-use the phrase “Computer Graphics”
-make it clear that they are signing up for a class
-consider using your own work
Joe’s Non-Netbook
December 4, 2009 at 10:42 am | In tech | 1 CommentToo funny and too real. Where’s my digital textbook?!
Time shares their vision of a 2010 digital mag
December 2, 2009 at 10:57 pm | In tech | Leave a CommentTags: digital magazine, future, gadgets, tablet, touchscreen
Check out this video and join in the rumor mill. Lots of folks think that this demo is a barely concealed, 2010 Mac tablet. Or not. The next 12 to 18 months in the tabler market are going to be very exciting. I wouldn’t by a black and white e-reader now. There’s too much on the horizon.
The first video clip shows the magazine interface in action on an HP touchscreen notebook.
The demo below is also compelling (aside from the creepy hands) and indicates that this tablet/interface will be more than an e-reader.
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