Week two and three

The first three days of school went off without a hitch. We took care of some important housekeeping items: acceptable use policy, usernames, passwords, Veracross introduction, and for students on "A" days, the syllabus and technology survey. If you haven't done so, make sure and electronically sign the syllabus that was emailed home.

Last week we jumped into our first project, Word of Mouth. If you Google 'word of mouth,' one of the first hits you'll receive is from Wikipedia. Their definition is: the passing of information from person to person via oral communication. For our purposes, we will be passing information from person to person orally - but this will be technology's version.

The first step in this process required that the students take a self picture using Photo Booth. This picture was saved to their 'home' drive and then later uploaded into Photoshop. Once in Photoshop, students were taught how to change the image size, use the shape tool, add text, and manipulate the opacity of a layer.

Week 3 - this week

Coming back from a restful three-day weekend students will move to the video portion of this project. Using smart phones, students will film a short video outlining some of their likes, hobbies, and what they love most about Kinkaid. This will then be uploaded to Youtube through the student's school account.

The students will then generate a QR code that will link the video to their picture making it come alive right before their eyes - and yours.