Final Exam
Digital Archiving, Web Design, Media Literacy







Above is a Wordle glyph that features 34 topics that we covered this semester.

Your assignment (to be done in ZOHO Writer or Google Docs) is to:

1. Pick 15 topics and create an original glyph like the one above using Wordle.
Use the printscreen key to take a snapshot of your glyph.
Paste your screen shot in Paint, crop it, name it and save it as a JPEG.
Insert your finished glyph on ZOHO Writer or Google Docs.
(The layout of your glyph must be either horizontal or mostly horizontal)
Type the three topics/activities that you enjoyed the most three times so those topics appear larger.
Insert your Wordle Glyph in ZOHO Writer or Google Docs (Title document Final Exam Feb. 2010)

2. Write a definition/description (in your own words) of each of your 15 topics.
No one and two sentence definitions. Your definitions/explanations must be at least four sentences.

3. Add at least two or more hyperlinks to each definition/explanation.
One hyperlink must be a link to a related assignment of yours.

4. In two or more paragraphs, explain why you work as hard as you do to earn the marks that you receive? You must include hyperlinks - at least three.

5. Create a Wordle glyph from your two or more paragraphs.

6. Insert the Wordle glyph in ZOHO Writer, or Google Docs.

NOTE: You will need to use the PrintScreen Key together with paint to crop, save and then insert your images onto your document.

Create this exam in ZOHO Writer, or Google Docs.



Final Exam must be posted to WallWisher and sent to me via Twitter.






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2/2/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

10 places in America project due today.
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2/1/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.


10 places in America project due tomorrow.


Your WallWisher wall (with work attached) is an important part of your final grade. 

You have until Thursday to arrange your wall so that it resembles the image below.
You should have three walls for this class - a November, December and January wall.


 



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1/29/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

10 places in America project extended until Tuesday.

Please work hard today to finish any outstanding work on your slate.

Final Exam next week.  Exam topics include:

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1/28/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

10 places you must see in America project is due Friday 1/29/2010

If you are done or nearly done please take a look at prezi.com.
Prezi is a free online presentation tool that allows you to create dazzling presentations on the web.

See me for details on how to convert your slides to images and upload them to prezi.com.

Click to watch some of the prezi examples here.

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1/27/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Answer the questions below using ZOHO Writer or Google Docs
You must include hyperlinks and at least two pictures

1. Who is Steve Jobs and what is on his schedule today?
2. Would you ditch print and read books on an Apple tablet?

When done, post your article (with hyperlinks and pictures) on your WallWisher page.


3. Continue to compile the 10 places in America you must see project.

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1/26/2010 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

This week you need to compile a list of 10 places in America you must see before you die.  This is your last classroom project before the final exam next week.
This project must be compiled the same way you compiled the 10 places in Philadelphia project.

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1/22/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Ten Places You Must See In Philadelphia project is due today.

Share a link to your finished slideshow on your January WallWisher.
Click Do More in WallWisher and Share your wall on Twitter.



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1/21/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working on your 10 places in Philly project. It is due tomorrow.



If you did not do so yesterday, near the end of class today, share/publish what you have compiled so far and post a link to your slideshow on your January WallWisher.



You must include Google Maps directions from your home to each location you choose.
The "directions slide" must look like the image below, with directions on the left and a map route image on the right.

See me if you have questions about using the PrintScreen key, and Microsoft Paint tools to create and edit screenshots.




Here is an example of 10 Places You Must See in Philly...

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1/20/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working on your 10 places in Philly project.

You have until Friday to complete this project.
At the end of class today, share/publish what you have compiled so far
and post a link on your January WallWisher.

Here is an example of 10 Places You Must See in Philly...
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1/19/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today' assignment is to list ten places in Philly you must see before you die.

Use Google Presentation or ZOHO Show to complete this assignment:

Create 22 slides
Slide 1 is your title slide
Slide 22 lists the web sites for all the images you used in this assignment.

You must include a photo on each slide, hyperlinks on each slide and at least three to four sentences describing the places you select.

You must also include Google Maps directions from your home to each location you choose.
The "directions slide" must look like the image below, with directions on the left and a map route image on the right.



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1/15/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Click here to see a slideshow of student versions of the decade in review

Use WordPress, Blogger, ZOHO Writer or Google Docs to prepare the following document. Your document must include hyperlinks.

1.  What is Pageflakes and how can it benefit you as a learner?
2.  What did you learn/discover over the past three days, about the  earthquake in Haiti?
3.  What did you do in this class to stay abreast of the goings-on in Haiti?
4.  Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday is today. How old would he have been had he lived?  And if his birthday is today, why is Monday, the 18th, the  holiday?
5.  Make certain every assignment you completed this week is posted to WallWisher.
6.  Share WallWisher work on Twitter.


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1/14/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Use WordPress, Blogger, ZOHO Writer or Google Docs to prepare this document.  Document must include hyperlinks.

What is being done locally to help earthquake victims in Haiti?

What things are needed the most by the earthquake victims?

What if anything are you, your family and friends prepared to do to assist in this humanitarian effort?

What role has technology played in keeping the world informed about the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti?

Who is Pat Robertson? What were his comments on the earthquake disaster?
Do you agree with his comments?
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1/13/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Follow Wyclef Jean on Twitter.
What are some of the Haiti relief efforts that are being discussed on his Twitter page and on other related Twitter pages? 
Use Twitter to report out on at least three different relief efforts being discussed on Twitter.
Include the #hashtags or keywords in your responses.

You may also follow Yele Haiti on Twitter for additional information
InternetHaiti is also a site with some valuable information
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti
Updates on Haiti  earthquake
World News from Mail Online

More work with Pageflakes

Pageflakes: Add a new page in Pageflakes and call it Haiti Watch


Below is a screenshot of my Haiti Watch page in Pageflakes




Add the same feeds to your Haiti Watch page as I have in mine.
Browse Flakes to pull in the other feeds.
(Twitter feeds may be a little tricky to add)

Publish your Haiti Watch page as a Pagecast


YOU MUST SAVE CHANGES

Copy Web Address (URL) of your Pagecast

Post to WallWisher.

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1/12/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

More work with Pageflakes

Add the following Pagecasts:

Click View Pagecast to select pagecast

Click Watch Pagecast to add to your page.

Google Tools
African Diaspora Books
African Diaspora History
TWIT Netcasts
NPR (select the pagecast with my picture)
African Diaspora Fashion and Beauty
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Add the following widgets to your Pageflakes Technology Page:
Web Radio
Engadget
Gadgetster
CNET Tech News
ABC Technology Headlines
This Week in Tech


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1/11/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.1. Finish and post to WallWisher any outstanding work from last week.  See last week's classwork below if you are missing work.


1. Finish and post to WallWisher any outstanding work from last week.  See last week's classwork below if you are missing work.

Pageflakes is a personal start page.  Personal start pages allow you to organize your web holdings in one convenient location.



2. Create an account at Pageflakes.com


                                             

3.  Add the following pages to Pageflakes: Home, News, Technology, podcasts,
Sports (optional), Fashion/Beauty (optional), podcasts, Video





4.  Add specific content to each of your Pageflakes pages



5.  Home page must include the following widgets:
Dictionary, e-Mail, Twitter, Wikipedia, Local News, Calendar

6.  Add the following RSS feeds to your Education page in Pageflakes
http://feeds.feedburner.com/readwriteweb
http://www.edtechtalk.com/node/feed
http://plethoratech.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/feed/
http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/feed/
http://khokanson.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://connectedtalk.wordpress.com/feed/
http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/feeds/index.rss2
http://songhaiconcepts.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
http://hopecharter.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default







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1/8/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Copy your list of significant events of the decade and the three things you learned over the holiday break and paste all of that text inside of Wordle

Use the Print Screen key to take a snapshot of your image. 
Paste the image in Paint
Crop image
Save image as a JPEG file
Post image on your blog
Upload image to Twitpic.com
and post image to January's WallWisher.

Share WallWisher content via Twitter.









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1/7/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.


BLOG POST: (if you do not have a blog use ZOHO Writer or Google Docs)

What does your list of significant events say about your world view?
Click here and download one earth image to your picture folder.

Once downloaded, open the earth image in Paint

Add numbers - 1 through 10 on each location on the map that you chose as a significant decade event.

For example if one of your significant events was the war in Iraq, then place a 1
where Iraq is located on the map.
If one of your significant events was the passing of Michael Jackson, then place a 2 where Los Angeles is located on the map. etc.

See Paint example below



After you create your numbered map, give it a smart name, and save it as a JPEG file in your picture folder.
Next, insert your numbered map to your blog.
If you do not have a blog, insert your image to ZOHO Writer or to Google Docs.

Write a short paragraph explaining what your numbered map says about your
world view.

Post a link to your blog post or ZOHO/Google Docs document to your January WallWisher.

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1/6/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Finish compiling your list of the 10 most significant events of the decade.

Post your list on your January WallWisher wall.
Use the Do More/Share feature in WallWisher to post your wall info to Twitter.




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1/5/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

 Today, finish compiling your list of the 10 most significant events of the decade.

Once you are done compiling your list, post a link to your list on WallWisher.
Also send me a list via Twitter.


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1/4/10 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

It is 2010... Happy New Year!

Prepare this document in ZOHO Writer or Google Docs and post the link to this document in Twitter.

1.  Explain three things you learned/discovered over the holiday break.
Please give details.

2. What in your opinion were the 10 most significant events of the last decade?
 
Use smart keywords in Google's search engine to find the answers to the above question.  Also use hyperlinks generously in this document




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12/22/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Create a three picture "comic" strip on the topic below (USE THE SAME BIRDS ON A WIRE PICS YOU USED YESTERDAY)

Today's topic is "English Class: The semester in review.
(This strip must involve the "birds on a wire" discussing English class, novels,vocabulary, plot, characters and reading/learning strategies you learned over the last semester.

If you completed your 3 picture strip from yesterday, create a 14 slide slideshow using ZOHO Show or Google Presentation.

Slides must be plain white with black text or black slides with white text.

Slide 1 - Birds On A Wire
Slide 2 - Type "The Importance of Education"
Slide 3 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 1
Slide 4 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 2
Slide 5 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 3
Slide 6 - Type "On Mathematics"
Slide 7 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 4
Slide 8 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 5
Slide 9 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 6...

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12/18/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Create a three picture "comic" strip on the topic below (USE THE SAME BIRDS ON A WIRE PICS YOU USED YESTERDAY)

Today's topic is What I learned in math class this term.
(This strip must involve the "birds on a wire" discussing math terms, concepts and formulas you learned over the last semester, you may include problems, answers and good strategies for being successful in math class.)

If you completed your 3 picture strip from yesterday, create a 14 slide slideshow using ZOHO Show or Google Presentation.

Slides must be plain white with black text or black slides with white text.

Slide 1 - Birds On A Wire
Slide 2 - Type "The Importance of Education"
Slide 3 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 1
Slide 4 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 2
Slide 5 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 3
Slide 6 - Type "On Mathematics"
Slide 7 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 4
Slide 8 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 5
Slide 9 - Insert your "bird on a wire" pic 6...

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12/17/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

All Digital Archiving students will wrap up the 2009 school year in a lighthearted way by creating a comic strip using bubblesnaps.com

All students will create one strip per day for the next four days.
Each day the theme of your strip will change.

You must create a three picture "comic" strip on the topic below
Today's topic is The Importance of Education.
(Why is education important, especially in 2009, what a decent education
do for you in the future, why it is important to work hard now if you want to "chill" tomorrow.)


First, save three of the Bird on a Wire pictures to your picture folder/screenshot folder.
Pictures must all be the same color. (sepia or color)

If you do not have a picture/screenshot folder, please create one now in My Documents.

Next, upload one picture at a time to bubblesnaps.com and add bubble captions to each picture.
Click this link to select the pictures



Quick tips on using Bubblesnaps...



Make certain all your words are spelled correctly before you click FINISH

You will need to use the PrintScreen key to take a snapshot of your finished strip.

Paste your finished snapshot in Paint, crop it and save the image to your screen shot folder.  Give each image a smart name "education1, education2, education3.

Shortcut keys:
Ctrl+V = paste
Ctrl+C = Copy
Ctrl+N = New







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12/16/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

All students build a wall in Wallwisher.com for the following weeks.
11/16/09
11/23/09
11/30/09
12/07/09

Please add a digital sticky note for every assignment you completed for each separate week.
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12/15/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

See 12/14/09 classwork (below) if you were absent yesterday.

Post all completed work for today on your Wallwisher.com page for 12/14/09.

All students should have a Wallwisher.com account

We are using Wallwisher like it were an online bulletin board where you  post digital sticky notes with links to works completed and works in progress.

You will build a new Wallwisher wall every week.

IMPORTANT: Your report (from yesterday) on hyperlinking is due at the end of the class period.

If you need more time to prepare and publish a report on hyperlinking you may use today's class period to do that.

All reports should contain at least three hyperlinks.

If you completed your report on hyperlinking, then "build a wall" in Wallwisher.com that includes "digital sticky notes" to all works completed for the week of 12/7/09.
Title: YourFirstName's Digital Bulletin Board for 12/7/09
Subtitle: My classroom bulletin board
Include a picture

Repeat the above steps for week of 11/30/09, 11/23/09, etc.
 

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12/14/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

If you did not do so on Friday, all students create an account at Wallwisher.com

Students who have Wallwisher.com accounts need to build a new wall for this week.
You will build a new wall - "digital bulletin board" every week.
The wall will contain notes and links to your work for that week.


Edit your title: Songhai's Digital Bulletin board
Add a subtitle My classroom bulletin board for 12/14/09
and choose a URL for the week (songhaisboard121409)

 
Use ZOHO or Google Docs to prepare a brief report on hyperlinking:

1. What is hyperlinking and hypertext writing?
2. What hyperlinking activities have you worked on over the last 3 weeks?
3. What distinguishes hypertext writing from ordinary text documents?
4. How would you rate your hyperlinking skills - proficient, good, unsatisfactory?
(explain all of your answers)

You are encouraged to use hyperlinks when preparing this document.

Post a link to this document (even if it is incomplete) on Wallwisher.com and share your digital bulletin board via Twitter.

Note: any slideshow work from last week that I do not have must be completed on your time.
Once you complete the slideshow post a link to your Wallwisher.com page and post to Twitter.





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12/11/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today, all students create an account at Wallwisher.com

You will need to supply the information in the picture below to create an account.



Once you create your account you need to "build a wall."


Build your wall by clicking the "Build a wall" link on the toolbar
You must name your wall. 
Name it:  "Your first name"'s Digital Bulletin Board
Subtitle it: My classroom bulletin board 
Add a picture: Wallwisher supplies you with clip art to use if you do not have a picture available. You must have a picture to create your account.

Give your wall an original web address
for example: songhaisboard121109


Select a wall THEME and click done.

Double click on your wall to make posts.

Click the DO MORE link on the toolbar to share your original wall on Twitter




Slideshow versions of Ka Ba due today!


REMEMBER: Landscape pictures only, all color or all black & white pics.
No spelling errors. (check your version against the original poem)
I will not accept any work with spelling errors!

Don't forget to include a brief biographical sketch of the author: where he was born, note his books, plays, awards and discuss what he is doing today.

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12/10/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today I want you all to test out WallWisher.
Mark yourselves present with WallWisher and explain where you are with the Ka Ba project.

Deadline for slideshow version of Amiri Baraka's Ka Ba is Friday 12/11/09

REMEMBER: Landscape pictures only, all color or all black & white pics.
No spelling errors. (check your version against the original poem)
I will not accept any work with spelling errors!

Don't forget to include a brief biographical sketch of the author: where he was born, note his books, plays, awards and discuss what he is doing today.

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12/09/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Deadline for slideshow version of Amiri Baraka's Ka Ba is Friday 12/11/09

REMEMBER: Landscape pictures only, all color or all black & white pics
No spelling errors. (check your version against the original poem)
I will not accept any work with spelling errors!

Don't forget to include a brief biographical sketch of the author: where he was born, note his books, plays, awards and discuss what he is doing today.
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12/8/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Please wrap up any outstanding work related to Baraka's "Ka Ba."

You should have submitted a ZOHO Writer or a Google Docs version of that poem.
ALL WORDS OF THE POEM MUST BE SPELLED CORRECTLY!

Final presentations of that piece must be compiled in either Google Presentation or ZOHO Show.

See me for specific details.
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12/7/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Please wrap up any outstanding work related to Amiri Baraka's "Ka Ba."

Final presentations of that piece must be compiled in either Google Presentation or ZOHO Show.

See me for specific details.

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12/4/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

All hyperlinked versions of Ka Ba are due today.

At the end of your hyperlinked version of the poem include a short biographical sketch of the author of Ka Ba, Amiri Baraka.

Where was he born, list several of his books and plays and what is he doing today?

Send me a link to your hyperlinked version of Ka Ba with the Baraka biographical sketch included via twitter.
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12/03/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

The deadline for adding hyperlinks to this poem is Thursday, December 3rd.

As you wrap up hyperlinking this poem, keep in mind that poetry is filled with deep and hidden meaning.
There is much more to a poem than meets the eye. 

You must read  between the lines to get the deeper meaning of a poem. 
Think carefully about what you read.
What does the line you just read represent - what's it look like?
You must see through the literal.


As you wrap up this exercise, think about what each line or passage in the poem is saying and find the perfect picture synonym to match it. 

Do not put the exact line or passage into your search box.
That will only get you what the student next to you gets.

Be bold in your thinking.
Do not be intimidated by Google or other search engines.
Type exactly what you mean in the search box to get what you want.

STYLSTIC NOTE: Please keep your images consistent - use all color images or all black & white images. 
Also use landscape images only - no portrait pictures.

Click here for list of lines and passages to be hyperlinked


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12/02/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

If you did not transcribe Ka Ba on Monday, then please type the poem up in ZOHO Writer or Google Docs today, from the original.
Find the original poem by doing a Google search for "Ka Ba by Amiri Baraka"

If you transcribed the poem "Ka Ba" yesterday, then start saving the images you plan to hyperlink to your picture folder. 
Create a folder in your picture folder called Ka Ba Pics. and save all images there.
NOTE: Hyperlink the pics first, then save them to your picture folder.

STYLSTIC NOTE: Please keep your images consistent - use all color images or all black & white images. 
Also use landscape images only - no portrait pictures.

Click here for list of lines and passages to be hyperlinked

The deadline for adding hyperlinks to this poem is Thursday, December 3rd.

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12/01/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

If you did not transcribe Ka Ba yesterday, then please type the poem up in ZOHO Writer or Google Docs today, from the original.
Find the original poem by doing a Google search for "Ka Ba by Amiri Baraka"

If you transcribed the poem "Ka Ba" yesterday, then start saving the images you plan to hyperlink to your picture folder. 
Create a folder in your picture folder called Ka Ba Pics. and save all images there.
NOTE: Hyperlink the pics first, then save them to your picture folder.

STYLSTIC NOTE: Please keep your images consistent - use all color images or all black & white images. 
Also use landscape images only - no portrait pictures.

Click here for list of lines and passages to be hyperlinked
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11/30/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today you will continue to practice adding relevant hyperlinks to an important piece of poetry of the 20th century.

As I dictate, you will type the poem in either ZOHO writer or Google Docs.

Later you will add relevant hyperlinks to the document.

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11/25/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Thanksgiving break marks the end of the first quarter of this school year.

In two or more paragraphs, assess yourself as a student in Digital Archiving class.  Note your progress and achievements from the start of the year to the present. Note what you have learned and what you still would like to learn. If this course were to end today, how would you evaluate yourself as a student?

Add smart relevant hyperlinks to your paragraphs.
Prepare this document on your blog, ZOHO or Google Docs.
Send me a link to your finished document via Twitter.
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11/24/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Wrap up any loose ends from yesterday's classwork.
1. Add eight hyperlinks to Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool"
(hyperlink each entire line for a total of eight hyperlinks)
2. Explain what the poem means to you
3. In a separate document explain what transpired in the short Kevin Ross video we watched yesterday.  Explain the lessons to be learned from the Kevin Ross story?
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11/23/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today we will watch a short video clip on the life of Kevin Ross and you will write a reflective piece on that video. (Add hyperlinks throughout the document you type)

After you watch the video I will dictate a short poem by Gwendolyn Brooks and you will transcribe the poem either on your blog or on ZOHO writer. Add relevant hyperlinks to every line of the poem




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11/20/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Please complete yesterday's exam.  Click this article to access exam.
You can view your responses and your classmates' responses here.
You may have free time after you complete the exam.

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11/19/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today you will take a 10 question exam on the topic of Thinking Critically When Surfing the Net.  Please read this article and click on the exam link at the end of the article.
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11/18/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Today is the last day we will devote class time to the Cosby document.
Finish adding hyperlinks to the document and send me your finished product via Twitter.

If you have not already, copy the linked article below to your writing application and add smart relevant hyperlinks to all the underlined words.
 
Read this article concerning the state of Black America.

Digital Archiving students who are done the Cosby document should be working on liner notes for Pandora compilation #42.
See me for instructions.


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11/17/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.


Today is the last day we will devote class time to the Cosby document.
Finish adding hyperlinks to the document and send me your finished product via Twitter.

If you have not already, copy the linked article below to your writing application and add smart relevant hyperlinks to all the underlined words.
 
Read this article concerning the state of Black America.

Next, on your blog (or ZOHO or Google Docs) explain what Bill Cosby is saying to Black America. Explain in detail why you agree or disagree with his statements?


Your hyperlinks may link to pictures, maps, definitions, statistics, etc.

See me if you have questions.

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11/16/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Over the next few days we will practice inserting relevant hyperlinks inside of text documents. 
Read this article concerning the state of Black America.

On your blog (or ZOHO or Google Docs) first, explain what Bill Cosby is saying to Black America. Explain in detail why you agree or disagree with Mr. Cosby?

After you write your opinion on your blog or ZOHO or Google Docs, Copy the entire article and paste the article onto your blog as a New Post.  If you do not have a blog, copy and paste the article in ZOHO or Google Docs as a New Document.

Your assignment is to add relevant hyperlinks to all of the underlined words in the text.

Your hyperlinks may link to pictures, maps, definitions, statistics, etc.

See me if you have questions.



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11/13/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

If school were to end today - forever, that's it, no more school, given what you have learned in this class and in all of your other classes over the years, what kind of job would you qualify for and what kind of an asset would you be to any company/organization or a business of your own? Answer smartly and intelligently in either ZOHO, Google Docs, Blogger or WordPress. Be specific and give details.

Answer in three paragraphs or more include at least 4 smart, relevant hyperlinks and include at least two smart, relevant pictures.

You must send me a link via twitter to your responses.
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11/12/09
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Use today to get caught up on any missing work from the past week.

Students who are caught up and who have finished creating their liner notes can proceed to creating a movie version of their liner notes in MovieMaker.

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11/10/09
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.


1.  Today you will make a word glyph from the articles you wrote yesterday.
Go to wordle.net.
Copy your responses to yesterday's questions (all the text) and paste your words in wordle.net




Go to Twitpic.com - send me your new word glyph.

Do the same thing with delicious if you have a delicious account.
Follow the instructions in wordle.net


2.  Digital Archiving students who have completed Pandora Compilation #42 should be wrapping up creating their liner notes in either ZOHO Show or Google Presentation. 

After creating your liner notes, you will need to use the Printscreen key to take screenshots of your slides.
Paste the image of your slide in Paint, crop the image and save as a JPEG.

Once you save all the screenshots as JPEG files I will show you how to import the images into MovieMaker.

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11/9/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Last week's SEPTA strike was an unfortunate inconvenience for students and teachers alike, nevertheless, students enrolled in this class are always able to access the classwork for this course online if you choose to do so.  

If you did not attend school last week please prepare this document in 3-4 paragraphs on your blog (Blogger or WordPress). If you do not have a blog, create this document with ZOHO Writer.

You must add at least four hyperlinks to this document

1.  Did you attempt to access any of the classwork from home during the SEPTA strike? If so explain what you did.  If not explain why you did not. (answer this only if you were not here last week)

2. What do you want your teachers to do? (for example - what do you want your barber or hairdresser to do... what do you want your mother, your father, or your guardian to do?)

3. What do you think your teachers expect you to do?




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11/6/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Our Internet connection problems have pretty much been solved.
YouTube is blocked.  Too many students were spending way too much time on YouTube when they should have been doing classwork.

By now all Digital Archiving students should be working on Pandora Compilation #56. 

You should have completed or started work on Liner Notes for Pandora compilation #42.  If you have questions.  See me right away.

1. On your blog (Word Press or Blogger) explain the following in two or more paragraphs:

"What do you want your teachers to do?"
"What do you think your teachers want you to do?"
(send me a link to this blog post via Twitter)


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11/4/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

PUT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON YOUR BLOGGER OR ZOHO... WORDPRESS IS NOT VERY RESPONSIVE TODAY.


Feel free to use ipl.org or any local television or radio news sources for your information.

Use Bubblesnaps to add a caption to this picture.
SAVE THE IMAGE AS A JPEG, NAME IT AND INSERT IT ON YOUR BLOG OR YOUR ZOHO DOCUMENT.


Upload this pic (or the pic below) to Bubblesnaps.com and add a caption relative to the SEPTA strike.


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11/2/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

If you did not finish the Bubble snaps activity from Friday, please do so today.

Get pictures from newmediaenglish.pbworks.com
Pictures include "birds on a wire," "first family," "Gordon Parks, American Gothic"

Upload pictures to bubblesnaps.com and add captions.
Caption topics include Education, The World Series, Being Safe Online

After you create captions for the three pictures sign into twitpic.com and
post the images on Twitter.

Continue working with Pandora editing tracks and liner notes.

Digital Archiving students you should be completing work on Pandora Compilation #56 and finalizing you liner notes for Pandora Compilation #42. 

See me if you have questions.
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10/27/09 Digital Archiving

I DO NOT APPRECIATE STUDENTS USING MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK OR WATCHING YOUTUBE VIDEOS DURING CLASS TIME!  YOU WILL NOT BE GRADED ON ANY OF THOSE.  KEEP THAT IN MIND. USE THEM DURING CLASS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Wrapping up Pandora Compilation #42:

Over the  next few days you will need to put together a liner notes document that features all the tracks from Pandora Compilation #42.

Create the liner notes in ZOHO Show or Google Presentation.

Notes must include hyperlinks, biographical information and album art.

See my blog page for examples of liner notes: see Posts from March 10, 2009 and March 4, 2009.


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10/26/09 Digital Archiving

I DO NOT APPRECIATE STUDENTS USING MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK OR WATCHING YOUTUBE VIDEOS DURING CLASS TIME!  YOU WILL NOT BE GRADED ON ANY OF THOSE.  KEEP THAT IN MIND. USE THEM DURING CLASS AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Wrapping up Pandora Compilation #42:

Over the  next few days you will need to put together a liner notes document that features all the tracks from Pandora Compilation #42.

Create the liner notes in ZOHO Show or Google Presentation.

Notes must include hyperlinks, biographical information and album art.

See my blog page for examples of liner notes: see Posts from March 10, 2009 and March 4, 2009.


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10/23/09 Digital Archiving

If you borrowed headphones yesterday, please return them.
The two remaining headsets will be lent out on a first come first serve basis.

All students are encouraged to purchase their own headphones - some headphones cost under $2.00.

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Audacity audio editor.

All students should be working on Pandora Compilation #42.
(See me today if you do not have Pandora Compilation #42)

Cut/paste and export individual tracks as .wav files inside of Audacity.

Name and save each track that you cut and save track to your classical music folder.

Number each of your tracks

Click here to see my slideshow on using Audacity audio editor.
(start slideshow at slide 8)


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10/22/09 Digital Archiving

If you borrowed headphones yesterday, please return them.
The two remaining headsets will be lent out on a first come first serve basis.

All students are encouraged to purchase their own headphones - some headphones cost under $2.00.

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Audacity audio editor.

All students should be working on Pandora Compilation #42.
(See me today if you do not have Pandora Compilation #42)

Cut/paste and export individual tracks as .wav files inside of Audacity.

Name and save each track that you cut and save track to your classical music folder.

Number each of your tracks

Click here to see my slideshow on using Audacity audio editor.
(start slideshow at slide 8)



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10/21/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Audacity audio editor.

All students should be working on Pandora Compilation #42.
(See me today if you do not have Pandora Compilation #42)

Cut/paste and export individual tracks as .wav files inside of Audacity.

Name and save each track that you cut and save track to your classical music folder.

Click here to see my slideshow on using Audacity audio editor.
(start slideshow at slide 8)


Audacity Screenshots
Highlight and cut individual track (below)


Paste the cut section onto a new track (below)



Create a new track


Paste cut section onto new track



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10/20/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Audacity audio editor.

All students should be working on Pandora Compilation #42.

Cut/paste and export individual tracks as .wav files inside of Audacity.

Name and save each track that you cut and save track to your classical music folder.

Highlight and cut individual track (below)


Paste the cut section onto a new track (below)



Create a new track


Paste cut section onto new track




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10/19/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Introduction to Audacity audio editor



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10/16/09 Digital Archiving


Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with the Aviary Image Editor to create a CD Cover/postcard featuring the two audio tracks that you created with the Aviary audio editor. (See yesterday's classwork instructions)

Post your finished image to Twitter (FaceBook and MySpace if you choose)
Insert/embed it on your blog (with a brief description)


PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES TO CLASS NEXT WEEK!

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10/15/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Explore the Aviary Online Image Editor.
(you must have an account and be signed in)

Open the Aviary Image Editor (aviary.com)

Select Start From Scratch

Choose a background color, a choose a background text color, then try to recreate a CD Cover describing the two tracks you created with the audio editor.

Save your image in your picture folder and upload it to twitpic.com














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10/14/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Please complete Twitter Literacy Survey #2

Click here to continue with survey

After you complete the survey, you must post the two tracks you created in Aviary Online Audio editor to your blog and to Twitter.

See me if you have not or do not know how to post your tracks to your blog and to Twitter.

If you already posted your two tracks to your blog and to Twitter then start to explore the Aviary Online Image Editor. 

Write a short blog post on what you discovered experimented with using the Aviary Online Image editor.
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10/13/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

All students take Twitter Literacy Survey #2

Click here to take survey
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10/8/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Two original tracks are due tomorrow.  The tracks must be mixed down, saved, described, tagged and you must download the tracks as MP3 format.
Save the tracks to your music folder.

If you are using blogger - copy the embed code and paste it inside the edit window.
If you are WordPress add the URL link to a new post.

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When you click Save As you will see the screen above asking you to
give your track a Title, Description and Tag

The image above is the Mixdown prompt.
After you mixdown your track you will be given the option to download your track as an MP3 file.



The above window contains MP3, Copy, Embed and Twitter options


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10/7/09 Digital Archiving
Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Aviary Online Audio Editor.  You must produce two tracks by Friday.
Each song/track you create must be either 32, 64 or 96 measures.
See me if you have questions about what measures are.

After you assemble your track, save your track, mixdown your track and download it as an MP3.  Save the file to your music folder.

See me during class if you have any questions.

Also explore the Aviary Image Editing program.  You will need to create a CD cover for your tracks.


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10/6/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

Continue working with Aviary Online Audio Editor.  You must produce two tracks by the end of the week. 

After you assemble your track, save your track, mixdown your track and download it as an MP3.  Save the file to your music folder.

Also explore the Aviary Image Editing program.  You will need to create a CD cover for your tracks.




10/5/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

All Digital Archiving Students take the Digital Archiving Survey #1
Click here to see DigiArc Survey #1

If you complete the survey then explain this quote from "TheTeacherPage"

Answer in one or more paragraphs.
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10/2/09 Digital Archiving

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present in twitter.

1.  Digital Archiving Students: please follow these 8 people on Twitter.
    From your main Twitter page, click Find People


               1. mrich1911, 2. tweetgrid, 3. garystager, 4. screenr, 5. TheTeacherPage, 6. Oprah, 7. ItsOurCity, 8. Shareski



    (type the letters exactly as they appear (below) inside the Find People box in Twitter)




2.  Finish working on your audio track - aviary.com
3.  Name and save your track
4.  Write a blog post about what you did this week using aviary audio editing program. 
5.  Send me a link to your blog post via twitter


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10/1/09 Digital Archiving (#digiarc)

Please remember to include the class hashtag (#digiarc) when you mark yourselves present. Use the (#digiarc) hashtag in all your twitter transactions to me.

Complete any outstanding work from yesterday, Tuesday and Monday.
Including your review of TweetGrid which needs to be posted on your blog and the three web sites you needed to tag in delicious.com.

Continue assembling an audio track using the Aviary online audio editor.

Send me a link to your review of TweetGrid via Twitter. Use the #digiarc hashtag when you send work to me via Twitter.

9/30/09

1.  Bookmark the following sites in delicious
http://tweetgrid.com/
http://blog.twitter.com/
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-09/st_thompson

2.  Go to tweetgrid.com and explore the many twitter search options.
Scan through the How To, FAQ and Search Tip information.

Choose a 1x3 search grid and enter three keywords in each search box.

3.  Write a blog post about explaining what tweetgrid.com is and how it could possibly benefit you in the classroom. 

What do you think is the difference between tweetgrid.com and a typical google search?
Is tweetgrid.com information oveload?


4.  Continue to work and experiment with the Aviary online audio editor.



Today explore the intro and ending options and try to place those sequences
accordingly on the track. 

Save your musical production so you can return to it tomorrow.





9/29/09 Digital Archiving

 Digital Archiving students:  Go to Aviary Online Audio Editor site.
Watch the demo video.
Create an account
Test out the site. What can the audio editor do?
Write a blog post explaining what the site is and how it
could benefit you in this class.

Complete any outstanding work from yesterday.



9/28/09
Digital Archiving Students

1.  All students must now include the hashtag for this class with every tweet you make over the twitter network.  The hashtag for this class is #digiarc

2.  Delicious:  Bookmark the following sites:
http://www.sociableblog.com/2009/07/30/100-serious-twitter-tips-for-academics/
http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania/2009/09/25/953/
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2009/09/hundreds-of-math-and-science-video.html
http://delicious.com/edtechtalk/20090920

New Blog Post ( On your WordPress or Blogger page, write a short description for each web site that you bookmarked)

Begin your post something like this:  Today in Digital Archiving Class, I tagged/bookmarked four education web sites.
The sites I bookmarked were...

3. New Blog Post Why is delicious a useful tool for students and educators?

4.  Complete any unfinished work from last week.







9/25/09
Digital Archiving Students

Bookmark the following sites in your delicious.com accounts

Two of the links below are videos.  Watch each video and write a brief reflection on the theme of each video.
Write your reflection on your WordPress or Blogger web page.
Give the New Post an intelligent title and write at least one paragraph for each video.


http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3615

http://readerszone.com/internet-explorer/download-delicious-add-on-for-internet-explorer.html


Complete any unfinished work from this week:
TV Executive in charge of programming
Create a Movie Complex in your community





9/24/09
Digital Archiving Students



1.  Create an account at Vodpod.com
On your blog, explain what vodpod.com is and why is it useful?

If you were unable to add three TV shows to your blogger blog or your WordPress blog yesterday.  Please add three today.


2.  If you were a land developer and could build a movie complex
in YOUR Community, where would you build it and why.
What would you call your movie complex?

Use Google Maps, to identify a location in YOUR community where you would
erect a movie complex.

Use the PrintScreen Key together with the Paint program
and insert an image of the location on your Movie complex on your blog.

Use either vodpod.com or hulu.com to add three movies to your
newly erected movie complex.



9/23/09
DIGITAL ARCHIVING STUDENTS

1. Finish any work you were unable to complete from yesterday.

Answer the following questions on your WordPress or iGoogle blog page.

2. What is hulu.com - what can you find and do on this web site?

You are a TV executive in charge of programming.

3. Create a prime-time TV lineup and embed a series of TV shows on your blog.
(prime time is between 8PM and 11PM)