Don't Summer-ize Quite Yet!

We're in the home stretch!

Time to finish up those last few assignments. 

We do not have finals in Computer Literacy or Image Design.

LAST DAY TO TURN IN ASSIGNMENTS:

Image Design - June 7

Comp Lit - June 12

Don't forget to comment on this blog for extra credit points!

Vamp is Blogtastic!

Have you heard the news? Vamp has finally created her very own blog! She is so excited, that she wanted me to share it with you!

Vamp's Blog of Awesomeness

If you are in Computer Literacy, you can use Vamp's blog as an example of Assignment 6S. She has everything listed on the assignment check off sheet. She decided to add a few extras, and you can too if you want. You can see the breakdown below.

 

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Here is the scoring guide, assignment instructions, and blog privacy info...

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If you would like to see student-created blogs from
first semester, click here. More to come!

Creatively Thinking

In school, many times you are asked to give the one correct answer to a question.  However, in life and on the job, it is important to find many solutions to a single problem. This leads me to believe, that we all need to practice thinking “out of the box” to strengthen our creative or “divergent” thinking skills.

Divergent Thinking: creative, open-ended thinking aimed at generating fresh views and novel solutions (many solutions to a single problem).

Convergent Thinking: thinking that brings together information focused on solving a problem (especially solving problems that have a single correct solution).

Put on your creativity hat and use your divergent thinking skills to answer the question below…

How many unusual and uncommon uses can you come up with for this mouse?

I look forward to your answers!

Masking Images

In Project 7, my Image Design students were asked to blur the background of an image while leaving the one part of the foreground perfectly clear. They used a technique called "masking" to pull this off. A mask is a special kind of layer that lets you hide or reveal previous layers.

Here is a video to help explain how to create this effect in Gimp...

Check out these student-created samples!

 By Yamilex

 

By Maria

 By Nick

 By Angela

Amazing work kids! I love the way you created one clear image within the photograph. Keep it up!