Day 33: 20 Questions

Compose 10 questions about yourself, and 10 questions about the world.
When you have composed your questions please type them up in a new google document, name your document yourfirstname20questions.
When you have finished and spellchecked your document, save it and SHARE it with me at:
ms.dryg@wjps.org

Day 31: Reflective writing on Movie Project

In three paragraphs or more describe the project that we have completed.
Discuss:

1. What you did
2. Successes that you reached, problems that you encountered
3. concluding opinions and questions that you still might have.

On your own type this writing reflection into your google docs account, name it "your first namemoviereflection" and when you have finished and spell checked it, email it to me here:

ms.dryg@wjps.org

Day 29: Final Cuts turned in and Midterm Evaluation

Today you are to transfer your .mov file to my thumb-drive for presentation and evaluation. Tomorrow the class will evaluate your project, and you will evaluate those of your peers.

Compressing Movie for web streaming
changing from .dv format to .mov format
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1. Open file
2. share menu
3. quicktime
4. web streaming
5. name it, save it in movie folder
   

Midterm portfolio and evaluation

Your midterm evaluation is a reflection of how you are doing in terms of meeting the standards and developing good habits for 21st century skills.
Click here to see the Middle School Technology Standards.
Click here to see 21st Century skills standards.
In your binder, folder, or sourcebook you must have the following items from our classwork:

• Table of Contents in correct format
• numbered pages for easy reference
• sourcebook entries
  
• original magazine picture or description of picture
• first draft of story line
• final draft of script
• reflective writing on the process of 1 minute play production and performance
• self-assessment rubric

Your ability to develop good habits of conduct as outlined in the first day's blog post and class discussion are also a criteria for evaluation. Having the above listed items in order and ready for Open School night later in the month is the basis for any discussion of your evaluation.

Day 21-24, Creating a Final Cut

We will work for a few days to edit and refine our 1st iMovie production. Remember this 1st project is just to learn the tools of movie production so we can make many more interesting productions!
Since Friday is the end of the marking period, we will evaluate our progress for this task.
Rubrics coming soon!

Part of your task is to write down in your notebook what you know how to do in iMovie and what questions that you have about things that you couldn't figure out. I will be checking this today before I do a demonstration and and answer these questions that you have.

Applying the "hamburger method" to this production:

• top bun: titles
  
• bottom bun: credits
• meat: the video project
• condiments(things that make it taste better): good editing,transitions, special effects, sound track
  

Day 20: Getting footage from shared DVD

You are to share the DVD with the raw footage for your class section. When you have your footage you are to figure out as many things about movie editing as you can to share with the class.

• When its your turn to get your footage, transfer your clip from the DVD to the movie folder for your class.
• Start a new iMovie project and import your clip into it
• See if you can figure out how to split clips to delete what you don't need, add titles, transitions, effects, and credits.
• After you have discovered some things on your own we will discuss these techniques in class.
  

Good Morning! Saturday...

I had to modify an email setting but your username@wjps.org email should be up and running now, maybe test it by sending mail to a few classmates...or me, ms.dryg@wps.org

you can read and send email from your wjps-Goggle start page or this link:
http://mail.google.com/a/wjps.org

See you Tuesday!

Day 19: Looking at Lines Part II

Today we observed some plain brown boxes stacked together, looking at the boxes we can develop our sense of space and how lines appear to behave in 3D space. When we try to draw the boxes we see that some horizontal lines appear to go up and down at angles. Vertical lines remain vertical in our drawings.
These boxes are examples of in-organic objects, as opposed to the things we saw in nature when we went outside to draw before, for looking at lines Part I. Can you describe some differences in how organic and in-organic objects look?

Day 17-18:iGoogle and Digital Reading Logs(DRL's)

Follow the steps that you recorded in class to sign in to your WJPS-Google apps. account. If necessary follow the activation instructions. Start your first reading log with the book you are reading now. You will need to have at least 25 logs completed this academic year to be meeting WJPS expectations and standards.

Here is what you need to record for each Fiction title that you read:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dnwpw33_30fn8gkc

You all have many great questions about the data you will be inputting for your books, like what is a theme? Until we discuss it in class lets leave it blank, the great thing about google docs is that we can go back later and add information when we have it!