Blog #2-Links

I have a few websites that I love to navigate. The first on is a discussion board on http://archwired.com. It is a message board where people go to discuss the trials and tribulations of getting braces. I will have to make that journey in about three weeks. I just joined a couple of weeks ago but it is a very informative site. The only thing I don't like about this site is the front page. The text is kind of small. They don't have too many pictures on the site but they could use a few more.

The next site I love to navigate is http://stuff4greeks.com. It is a site where people in sororities and fraternities can purchase merchandise and have it customized. The layout of this site is perfect to me. They have a photo gallery section where it seems like the photos are digital. All the pictures are crystal clear. It is set up like a book and you can just click the page number and go to that image. All the other navigation keys are on one side of the site and they have pictures to correspond to the section you are going to enter.

The last site is http://blackexpressions.com. It is a book club that has a lot of African American fiction and history books. I like that they have a picture of the cover of the book under the name instead of just listing the name but on the other hand it makes the site look a little crowded. The layout is has the type of books on the side and when you click on one that book type appears in the middle of the page. I think that they could have used the space on the side instead of putting ads there.


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Blog #1-Introduction

It's me again, here in Fawn's class for a third time! I guess a third times a charm, right? I am considered a senior in the Techincal Education and Training program here at OSU. I hope that I only have a few more quarters until graduation day. Then I hope I am admitted to the Workforce and Development Masters Program here. I know I have said this before but this is all new to me. I have been to several sites but I have never created a site of my own but I do have a page on facebook. I don't know yet to what extent I will be using websites once I get out into the professional world of training.

The picture you see to above is of my sorority Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. I love it to death. I work very hard especially with my sisters servicing the community. If you want to learn more about this wonderful organization click on the name above! Last but definitely not least I have to mention the best singing group ever....112! I love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are a couple of pictures of these wonderfully talented men from the ATL!

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Blog #9-Understanding

I don't think that I will ever know what I am doing when it comes to photoshop. That is supposed to be an easy program to learn but for me it was very difficult. I would think that making a video would be hard but it wasn't. All the skills and applications I won't know by name but if I tryed to do them in class I think that it will come to me. I am a very hands on person and I have to actually attempt things with my hands to fully understand the concept. I just hope that none of the photoshop information comes up in my next class with Fawn!


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Blog #8-Use of video

I must say that the video that Eric, Cindy and I made was very good. I thought that this project would be extremely hard but it was not that bad. It was very time consuming with the editing. Our video is of my sorority's step team and a performance that we did in June 06'. We (the sorority) thought that if we had an intro we could use it to send to other schools that were looking for step teams for their step show. We have been finding out that the majority of the committees for step shows want you to have a video or dvd of a past performance. For myself I made extra copies of the show with the intro to give to members of the team and I used Bill's expertise to make a cover for the dvd! (Just as an extra note, Bill is so wonderful to work with. He is very patient with people like myself who are technically challenged LOL)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Blog #7-Video

Our group came up with something simple, like making cookies. Since all of us are in corporate training we won't get to use this new tool unless it was in our personal lives. I know I have been working with Bill in the computer and he has been helping me edit my step show video and that has been rough (just like photoshop!). I have a lot of different versions that start in different places and end in different places. I finally have the correct version and all we have to do is put our taped intro (Thanks Eric!!) in front of the previously shot footage and we have a video. I may actually get to use this for shows that we may enter that will require us to have taped footaged.

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Blog #6-Creating your video

The process of creating this video is to me like the process of learning photoshop. Since this is new for me I feel like a total idot! Lucky I have people in my group who are very laid back. The people in my group are Eric and Cindy. They are both in the same program as myself (Corporate Training). I suggested to them that we take a video that was shot of me in a step show performance this past June and add an intro to the front to introduce the show. I am very thankful for Bill (computer tech) for helping me learn some of the trick of the trade.
Eric, Cindy and myself are working very well together. We all have three class together this quarter and some from last quarter. So I am luck that they asked me to be in the group.
Unfortunately, since the snow has the school shut down for a couple of days and my God son about to be born, time is of the essence. I still need to find time to finish the editing and shoot the intro with my group members.

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Blog #5-Contemporary literacy and learning

I think that graphic design and page layout plays a big role in learning. Some adult learners may be visual learners. They may see the pictures next to a story and get the jist of what the story is about from looking at the pictures. You as the creator can tell a story by using only pictures. Children disfuse stories by the way a book is constructed. When I was a pre-school teacher I would have my children read to me and the other students in the class. Even thought it was obvious that they did not know what the words were but they felt as thought they did because they were looking at the pictures and telling the story.
When I think of constructing a newletter or graphic homework assignment, I think of what items are similar and I group them together because they are relivant to each other. I think once I am fluent in photoshop, I will have a better handle on putting designs together instead of cutting and pasting all the time.

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