Building Our Capacities to Write in the Public Interest Agenda for 3/3/09 & 3/5/09

Working as Organization For the remainder of the semester we will be following work patterns typical of workplaces and organizations: Teams tasked to solve problems you’ve identified Class time used to build your capacities and to facilitate group work Status reports offered every TH Group reports to the class will be made later this semester in presentations.

Working as Organization For the remainder of the semester we will be following work patterns typical of workplaces and organizations: None of us will be working on same schedule of due dates Your abilities to tell me what you need as learners/writers are crucial (hence the survey!) Each group must: create a schedule of work, due dates, and reviews needed in the proposal

Proposals Please see the ppt. on proposals that has been loaded to the 331 website under the assignments section

Schedule Due 3/3 Class Capacity Building /Peer review Due 3/5 Capacity Needs paper due/ Proposals workshop in class T: 3/17 Proposals due/ C N A due/ Photoshop intro TH: 3/19 Photoshop intro T: 3/24 Photoshop adv TH: 3/26 Class cancelled: Instructor Duke University T: 3/31 Intro to video editing TH: 4/2 Intro to video editting 4/7: Group Updates to class 4/9: Intro to video editting T: 4/14 & 16 Video advanced and export T: 4/21 Camtasia intro TH: 4/23 Presentations T: 4/28 Presentations/ Portfolio workshop TH: 4/30 Portfolios/ Evals

Instructions for C N A Review Peer Review for the Capacity Statements 1.List group’s name and reviewer group 2.Each group download the working report from Angel, open in word, and track changes. 3.Cut and paste the questions in the notes below into the document you’re reviewing. 4.Submit these comments as a group-- coordinating your comments onto one document. 5.Upload your group’s comments to Angel

Survey Results

Photoshop 1 Matching file format to delivery mode Image sizing Introduction to layers/history Introduction to text Playing with text Transforming data/images Trimming pixels

Photoshop 1: File format Matching file format to delivery mode PSD = photoshop file (only up to 2G) TIFF = High res, data saturated image for printing, down stream remediation (graphic becomes logo), and archiving. Only good to 4G/file. PDF = portable document file for printing

Photoshop 1: File format Matching file format to delivery mode JPG = Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format is commonly used to display photographs and other continuous-tone images in hypertext markup language Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is the file format commonly used to display indexed- color graphics and images in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Photoshop 1: File format Matching file format to delivery mode PICT = PICT format is used in Mac OS graphics and page-layout applications as an intermediary file format for transferring images between applications. PNG = Developed as a patent-free alternative to GIF, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used for lossless compression and for display of images on the web.

Photoshop 1: Image Sizing Matching file format to delivery mode File>New> will use presets in your chache to image size Can be reset to your needs pixels: online points: data points/square inch inches: print/paper size presets: for various deliverables.

Photoshop 1: Layers Make sure you can see layers pallete toolbar>windows>history and layers Layers allow you to build your image in separate sections as though it were a collage. Each layer is manipulable. Make sure to preserve transparency for extporting. Hisotry allows you to see the moves you’ve made and quickly step backward if you’ve made a mistake.

Photoshop 1: Text All text comes with a new layer Make sure you name your layers to correspond to content of layer for easy of transfer to colleagues All text can be manipulated in the tool specification bar Select font, size, style, color of text from the spec bar

Photoshop 1: Text Once you’ve written text, click the move tool to exit the text tool. Next go to edit>free transform The Tranform tool allows you to warp, wrap, rotate and skew your layer (be it text or image). Note: when you transform these, you’ll likely need to adjust canvas size: increase the pixels to contain your text: got to move tool>image>trim>transparent pixels.