Working with Audio - Workshop Fall 08'

12/11/2008
5:00 PM
Working with Audio
Michael Byrne

In this workshop Dr. Byrne introduced the class to a program known as Audacity. It can be used for podcasting and all around recording. He explained the many different effects we can apply to our projects and showed us how to save them as .mp3's to store in our itunes library. This can be helpful for teachers because they could record their lectures and post them online for students to listen to. Teachers can even listen back to their own lectures and see what they liked/disliked about their lesson. We created our own projects and combined background music and vocals to get the idea of how the program worked best.

Embracing Our Differences: Photography, Technology, Conversation II - Workshop Blog

10/25/2008
11:30 AM
Embracing Our Differences: Photography, Technology, Conversation II
Bette Schneiderman, Allyson Uttendorfer, Bill Grabowski, Martha Hanley

This workshop took place at the Huntington Museum of Art. It was the first time I had ever been there and was pleased with everything it had to offer. Allyson showed us how to create panoramic photos of places of interest (such as a museum) and import them into a program to create virtual tours. This is very useful for teachers to incorporate into their teaching because it allows students to "visit" places they would not normally be able to see with such detail and control. As an Earth Science teacher and avid traveller, I could take a succession of photos of science related sites and show them to my students without having to actually take them to the site.

Adobe CS3 Dreamweaver Refresher with CSS - Workshop

10/4/2008
1:00 PM
Adobe CS3 Dreamweaver Refresher with CSS
Cristina Abreu-Perkins

This past summer, I had decided to create my own website to display my portfolio. I decided I would use Dreamweaver to accomplish this. I read many books and watched countless tutorial videos on Dreamweaver CS3 and eventually came to the conclusion that accomplishing what I wanted was not going to be easy. Christina answered many questions I had regarding CSS and cleared up many of the confusing elements to it. Most importantly, I learned that Sans Serif is the best font to use on the web when looking to add lots of text to a site. If I wanted to create text with more flare than Sans Serif type fonts, I should do so in Fireworks and save them as jpeg or gif files. I look forward to taking more workshops with her in the future.