October 24, 2014 Digital Photography: Today we are completing the transformation of changing our friends into zombies. Your Task: Take a good quality zombie photo if you haven’t already. Upload it and begin to edit in Photoshop following the directions:  Zombify Directions When you are finished save as Zombify.psd and Zombify.jpg Post the jpg to […]

October 17, 2014 Digital Photography: Today we are finishing, posting and printing our posters. Objectives Finish editing photos in order to make them stronger and to complete the poster. Essential Question How can raising awareness about bullying help those being bullied? Focusing Task (5 min) Students will log on and open their photo in Photoshop. […]

October 2, 2014 Digital Photography: Today we critiqued our best photo and then commented on the work of others. Objectives Understand and demonstrate the qualities of a good blog comment. Understand and demonstrate the qualities of a quality blog post. Essential Question How can I use technology to enhance my learning and photography? Focusing Task […]

October 1, 2014 Digital Photography: Today we learned about how to comment on a blog; more specifically, what makes a comment good 🙂 or bad 🙁 Objectives Understand the qualities of a good blog comment. Essential Question How can I use technology to enhance my learning and photography? Focusing Task Students will view the blog […]

September 26 & 29, 2014 Digital Photography: Your homework from last week was to take a photo of your favorite anything.  Today you will upload your photo and write a blog post about it. Here is your task: 1.  Continue working on your About Me page and your Artist’s Statement. If you are having trouble […]

September 25, 2014 Digital Photography: An “About Me” page tells visitors to your blog who you are and why you have a blog.  Today you will add the content to your “About Me” page. Here is your task: 1.  Use the brainstorming activities that were completed last week to finalize your Artist’s Statement. Here is […]

September 24, 2014 Digital Photography: Today we discussed the Blogging Guidelines for the class; the contract will help keep us safe and help us to get the most out of our blogs.  We also learned how to log in, change the theme and create pages as well as how to import and organize photos on […]

September 19, 2014 Digital Photography: Ok my wonderful, understanding, and oh so patient Photo students… this laryngitis just will not quit!  I went back to the doctor yesterday and he prescribed one more day of rest.  I will not be contagious by Monday so voice or no voice I plan to come in.  If it […]

September 18, 2014 Digital Photography: The world of blogging has it’s own set of vocabulary and terms, today you will start to learn some blog lingo. Blogging 101 1.  Watch this video with your partner… try to keep the volume as low as possible as everyone will be watching this at about the same time. […]

September 17, 2014 Digital Photography: An Artist’s Statement allows people to more fully understand why you make the art that you make.  This will eventually be an important part of your blog so give this some time and consideration. Your task: Write the basis of an artist’s statement that will be posted on your blog. […]