Well, I had good intentions to stay away from my blog for the rest of the day. However, I came across this video at AT&T's website while I was looking at technology grants. This link- http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=6209 takes you to the AT&T Multimedia Gallery. I thought it was a great place to visit for inspiration. Please check out the 1st video clip starring Martin Scorsese. It is an advertisement for banning phone calls in the movie theater.
So my point here is...corporate websites have a lot of inspirational multimedia videos and training demos. Most sites also have education pages. These pages have ideas for technology lessons. One of my favorite sites that offers lessons on using Adobe Photoshop Elements is at Adobe.com. I am providing the link because it is not easy to find. Follow this link to the Digital Kids Club, Lessons and Activities.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Storyboarding with PowerPoint 2002 to 2007
I had never thought about using PowerPoint to create storyboards before today. I found a great article at this link. The article is titled, The Future Story(board) of PowerPoint by Cliff Atkinson. Going further in exploring Atkinson website/blog I found this page that has a free Storyboard Guides, Storyboard Formatter and 4-Row Story templates to download. They all should open in PowerPoint if you have it loaded on your computer.
Monday, May 12, 2008
http://www.squidoo.com/browse/homepage
Squidoo.com is a Web 2.0 tool that lets you construct simple webpages about something you are passionate about in life. Before you explore it as a tool, take a look at its layout. It is clean, cool, colorful and well organized. Notice the soft gray text and table containing the picture images.
The curious thing about it is that it claims to make a contribution to your favorite charity if you make a squidoo. You'll have to go there to read and find out how.
When setting up an account, one gets to give your lens a catagory & a rating. As a parent I like this feature.
This is a great place for educators and students to create a webpage on their favorite topic. Squidoo's focus is a "show and tell" on the WWW. It is very appealing to families, educators and children.
The curious thing about it is that it claims to make a contribution to your favorite charity if you make a squidoo. You'll have to go there to read and find out how.
When setting up an account, one gets to give your lens a catagory & a rating. As a parent I like this feature.
This is a great place for educators and students to create a webpage on their favorite topic. Squidoo's focus is a "show and tell" on the WWW. It is very appealing to families, educators and children.
Friday, May 9, 2008
Great place for Colour! www.colourlovers.com
While working on my Information Commons' webpages, I came upon the http://www.colourlovers.com/ website. I use to just go to Webmonkey.com to refresh my webmastering skills and pick web safe color codes but this time I was interested in discovering more color hex codes. Anyway, this site is wonderful. Here you have a way to: explore color patterns used by other artisitic types; see what webdesign professionals are choosing for their color palettes and do some creating of your own.
Be sure to check out: Website Color Trends, Magazine Colors, Lovers, Palettes, Patterns and Colors. If you want to create your own color- scroll your mouse over the Palettes, Patterns or Colors tabs at the top of the page to Create New. Here you can try your hand at color mixing, creating patterns and palettes. Every Graphic Design and Web Design student should check this out.
Be sure to check out: Website Color Trends, Magazine Colors, Lovers, Palettes, Patterns and Colors. If you want to create your own color- scroll your mouse over the Palettes, Patterns or Colors tabs at the top of the page to Create New. Here you can try your hand at color mixing, creating patterns and palettes. Every Graphic Design and Web Design student should check this out.
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