1. Overview To Date

2. You Should have -- Awareness of “creativity”
Yours and others
Experience critiquing creative work
Peer Reviews
Insight into creative problem solving through --
–critical thinking and brainstorming

3. You should also have -- Understanding of –
Intellectual property rights
Copyright
Public domain
Creative Commons
Netiquette – you’re looking at a piece of hardware but there’s a person on the other end.

4. Proficiency in -- Use of PSU computer lab Windows operating system
File Management
Folders
Files
Create, delete, rename, copy, print files
Determine file properties
Send and receive with attachments
Use WWW – URL, Browse, Search

5. Set up a Web Page with Dreamweaver
Location -> M:\Home
Web Ex Menu – grid design (tables)
Setup Links
From my home page “students project page” -> your WebEx menu
From your WebEx Menu to your project
Insert Images
Format headings and links
Page and cell color background
Use basic css sheet

6. Image Editing with Photoshop
adjust brightness, contrast, colors, etc
Resize image
Crop
Selection -> magnetic lasso, quick selection tool, rectangular, elliptical, magic wand, spot healing brush with “Content Aware”
“feathering” edges with transparency
“cut and paste” between images –
move, rotate
Eraser, background eraser, magic eraser
Replace color
Text (size, color, font, warp, special effects)
Vary opacity
Save for web – select file format

7. Understand and use Text and Color Design

8. Access Illustrations and Tutorials from my Web Site or Other Websites Learn how to Learn

9. Blogs
Weblogs

10. What is a Blog? A Personal Presence on the Web
Generally speaking, it's an online journal comprised of links and postings in reverse chronological order, meaning the most recent posting appears at the top of the page.
Weblogs typically link to blog postings, and many allow readers to comment on the original post, thereby allowing audience discussions.

11. Some Definitions
blog - site authored with newest post at the top, usually based on particular opinion and/or subject. Analogous in many ways to a journal.
blogger - the people who run or contribute to blogs.
blogging – activity of updating a blog
Post – the blog managers entry
Comment – readers entry
Blog Glossary

12. How to Find a Blog Google Search for Blogs
Link

13. Lurk Before You Leap
Browse some blogs of interest to find some that you feel comfortable participating in.
Subject
Content
Tone
Audience
Update frequency

14. History of Blogs
Link

15. Educational Objectives of Blogging
To practice communicating clearly and effectively about issues.
To learn to use a new and growing communication technology.
To develop a distinctive voice on the Internet.

16. Legal and Ethical Issues
Do not attack other people.
Observe all laws regarding intellectual property rights.
Only publish facts that you believe to be true.
Link to any online sources used.
Properly cite all sources of information.
Disclose any conflicts of interest.

17. Blogging at PSU WordPress See the tutorial Blog Tutorial
Setting up a blog site – see tutorial
See the handout ( ) for a definition of the Blog Project