Photo Editing

The program I used is called Pixler Express. It can be used on iPad or computer. My little sister just got married, so I had fun messing with her wedding pictures.

Image #	Tool or Filter	Results
1- Phone Booth	1- Focal Point- circle of blur 2- Color Boost- saturates the color in the circle 3- Sharpen 4- Add sticker- wedding rings 5- Add text- and they lived happily ever after
2- Bridesmaids	1-Crop 2-Sharpen 3-Raise saturation 4-Smooth 5-Add text- Bridesmaids 6-Add border- soft 7-Add sticker- girl’s night out
3- Ceremony	1- Crop (to rule of thirds) 2- Super Saturate 3- Liquefy- morph the sky 4- Splash- make picture black and white except for the sky 5- Saturate the sky more 6-Adjustment- overlay and image; another ceremony picture 7-Raise the contrast 8-Focal blurring in a circle
4- Sisters	1- Added overlay- Twinkle 2- Raise the saturation 3- Add Border- Clean vignette 4- Text- there were never such devoted sisters
5- Silly Sisters	1-Crop 2- Effects- Light writing love 3- Effects- clip art teehee 4- Stickers- halo 5- Stickers- peas in a pod 6-Border- white ripped 7-Overlay effect- twinkle 8-Stickers- tiara
6- Taylor	1- Raise saturation 2- Borders- Vignette 3-Splash filter- photo black and white except for bouquet 4-Reduce lightness

Photography Rules

http://prezi.com/vf3didjjdjvv/photography-rules-of-composition-and-framing/

Rule of Thirds

Framing

Avoid the Middle

Leading Lines

Texture

Symmetry

Patterns

Rule of Odds

Control Your Background

Point of View

10 rules of composition. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2013, from MOHS Graphics Lab website: http://graphicslab.wordpress.com/10-rules-of-composition/ 

10 top photography and composition rules. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2013, from Photography Madwebsite:http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/10-top-photography-composition-rules 

Meyer, J. (2012, December 4). 10 rules of photo composition and why they work. Retrieved November 27, 2013, from Digital Camera World website: http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/12/10-rules-of-photo-composition-and-why-they-work/

Rippy-Sigman, K. (2012, April 10). 10 photographic rules of composition and framing http://www.slideshare.net/krippysigman/10-photographic-rules-of-composition-and-framing

Animation Cross Curricular

Students will begin in Science. Objective- I can discover different constellations using my iPad. They will be exploring the animated skies with the SkyView iPad app. They will use the iPads to meander about the sky and learn information about many different constellations. They will also use the app to create their own constellation. This is a fantastic way for students to see something (the complete night sky) that they don’t normally get to see. Seeing the stars make patterns in the sky will give students a much better understanding of constellations than just looking at pictures of dots on a printed piece of paper. They can see the stars in the context of where they are in the sky. Then the focus switches from science to language arts. Objective- I can create a myth or legend about my constellation using my iPad. Students will be using Toontastic to create a live animated version of the myth they make up for their constellation. This is not only a writing project, but also a lesson on a new technology tool. Incorporating these technologies is a great way to teach students 21^st century skills. Making up these myths will show students what people did thousands of years ago to make sense of what they saw in the sky and it will help students connect to those ancient astronomers. The final project students would submit would be a picture of their constellation along with the animated video of their myth that students could present to the class. This is a great project because even students who are shy and don’t like speaking in front of the class could still be stars of the show with their projects.

Google Sketchup

I want to throw out there that I feel like I’m an architect in an Inception dream: I want some stairs here and a house there and… ;-)

It definitely took some time to figure out this program, but what a cool free resource! I watched the introduction tutorials, which were helpful, but as I started creating I found myself searching youtube for videos on how to do specific skills. Youtube is always a great resource for things like that.

This tool absolutely aligns with 21^st Century Skills and TPCK. It is getting student familiar with new digital resources and giving them easily transferable technology skills. It also isn’t just technology for the sake of technology. It is easy to incorporate many other subject areas creating cross curricular ties.

The curricular model I chose to create had to do with geometric shapes. It is very difficult for my third graders to grasp the concept of 3-D geometric shapes just looking at a picture printed on 2-D paper. This is awesome because it allows students to manipulate space, essentially turning the geometric solid over in their hands. In this model, I made the different categories of geometric solids different colors. I also played with the 3-d text to label the categories. Because it is important for students to understand that geometric solids are named for their bases, I made all the bases red and added an upside-down label that said bases. I love the three dimensional space you have to work with in this program.

I honestly don’t think that I would have my eight year olds creating things in Google Sketchup. Most of them are not developmentally ready for a program such as this. I could see it being an after school club or a gifted extension activity though. I also did some research and found out that students can view Google Sketchups on iPads using the app SightSpace 3D. This is something that I would use with my kids where I create the sketchup and then allow them to view it on iPads. That makes this program much more accessible to my third graders. Another thing I can do with this is creating models of shapes for math to teach volume, so students can actually see the empty space inside a 3-D shape.