Calling All Heroes!

Students are working on the Heroes Project this week. They need to select a famous person in history, research the person, create a 10-15 slide presentation, and present to the class. In addition, students need to create a newsletter using Word on their hero also.

Making Movies!

This week has been spent working with the programs Audacity and Movie Maker. Audacity is a simple audio editor available free on the Web. Movie Maker is the basic video program that comes standard with Windows. Students are currently working on creating a one minute movie on the topic of their choice. It needs to include digital pictures, graphics, at least one video clip, and sound effects or music. The finished product can be played on Windows Media Player.

Back from spring break!

Welcome back from spring break! Before we left, students were working on finishing up a unit on PowerPoint 2007. We were focusing on such things as slide transitions and custom animation. Each year students move up to the high school knowing more and more about creating slide shows with PowerPoint and it is getting difficult to find things to keep them excited, but we will keep trying.

Now that we are back, we worked on creating Top Ten databases for our top ten favorite songs and movies. Students had to create separate tables for each with a variety of related fields. We even included CD cover art that displayed in our database forms.

The rest of the week we will work on graphics editing using Fireworks. We will learn how to touch up digital photos with a lesson called "Zits and Red-eye." We will also introduce Movie Maker and a sound editor called Audacity. Fun stuff!