Educator, Geek, Photographer, Motorcyclist, Lifelong Learner
This is an incredibly inspiring video that will appeal not just to the videographers in your classroom but the photographers as well. In my Communications Technology class, students are asked to watch the video and share a few inspirational quotes or messages they gleaned from it. I often create a Word Cloud with the results, …
Continue reading “Light and Shadow — Greatest Cinematographers of the World, Interviewed”
This video will show you how to save URLs into your project folder. This is necessary when creating and submitting projects that use assets from the Internet. Always give credit where it is due!
This is a great video for beginners to Affinity Designer as well as vector graphics in general. It provides an overview of starting Designer and walks you through an activity that teaches about: creating drawings, drawing rectangles, layers (locking and positioning), CMYK and HSL foreground and stroke colour selection, manipulation of object nodes, the use …
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Use Photoshop to recreate any image from this Flickr account. Note: in most cases the owner of the account will have provided links to the resources she used. Submit the following to the handin folder: your final PSD file a 1024 pixel jpg export of your file a shortcut to your inspirational image the assets you …
Just for fun, I attached a GoPro camera to the handlebar of the Kawasaki KLX 250 I was renting from Moto Tour El Salvador back in March 2016 and set it to take pictures every 10 seconds. With the roads and trails being so rough I was amazed at the photos the camera captured. The quality of …
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Linked below is a Job Interview assignment I use with my students in various classes. Other teachers are free to adapt or use it for their own classes. The assignment is also available at my GitHub account here. Source: Job Interview Questions Assignment – Google Docs
Leave it to a graphic designer to clearly visualize the complicated inner-workings of your digital camera in a way that actually makes sense. Source: A Beautiful Visualization Of How Your DSLR Camera Really Works | Co.Design | business + design
To my Communications Technology students, this is where you will find the outline of your ePortfolio requirements: TGJ3M ePortfolio Requirements (2017-2018 link) TGJ4M ePortfolio Requirements (2017-2018 link) At the time of this writing the outline is not complete. I will be adding one or two items every few days, so as not to overwhelm you. Organizational …
We used to use the old Google Sites for our ePortfolios, but, even with the current limitations, will now use the new Google Sites for our ePortfolios. Each student shares their ePortfolio with me as an editor, so I can edit their site if necessary, or when the feature gets added, to add comments to their site. For students …
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(Previously posted here on September 20, 2015) A quick photo repair this morning. I’m not entirely satisfied with the final result, but I’m hoping the person I’m doing this for will still be happy. If my Photoshop skills were better I’m sure more could be done to improve it. Which do you like best? The black …
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