Computer Application 2015

Explore the possibilities offered by online browser-based editing tools. Start with Pixlr (pixlr.com) and try others like fotor.com, befunky.com, picmonkey.com or ribbet.com. Make a post on what features you used and appreciated offered by those online editing tools along with the result (image) with an explanation of the setup.

Editing can also be done online with video. Try wevideo.com, wideo.co and weavly.com. You can download any video from YouTube with a clip converter or downloader. Once completed embed the media to a new post called My first montage.

What have you learned during the Hour of Code ? Make a blog post with the different exercises you completed along with the Badges. Download them from the HoC website and copy them in your blog. What language have you learned and how would you use it in the future ?

Also include your Certificate of completion.

December 7-13 will be the international Computer Science Education Week. During it we will conduct the Hour of Code in class.

Website: http://hourofcode.com

Spread the word and be ready to experience programming!

Work: Create a blog post and write your expectations and what programming language you would like to learn.

To visualize the different effects possible with Photoshop we will create a mosaic. Make a new A4 landscape base background on Photoshop with a 72 dpi. Take a picture from the Internet that must be a square.

Fit five copies of the picture in vertical applying each time a new layer with a new effect. Choose each time an effect from a different category so that the surrounding pictures do not have an effect from the same category. You can use effects in the same category but you must use each effect at least once.

Once completed, upload the PSD file to Moodle and make a new post with a PNG copy. Name and describe starting from the top right of your picture each effect you used.

The following items must be on your blog by now:

1. New template. You can’t leave the default one.

2. New header for the blog with the conditions stated in my post.

3. Work category to allow me to filter the content.

4. Top navigation bar must not display “Sample Page”

5. Internet Safety post

6. Widgets and Plugins with one or several posts covering their use and how you integrate them in your blog.

7. Photoshop introduction post with four pictures.

If you are missing one of the points completed this by Monday 16.11.2015.

Photoshop allows to edit pictures with effects. Look at the instructions on CDL Moodle, under the topic number four:

http://moodle.cdl.ch/course/view.php?id=753

Upload the file once done to “Photoshop Effects”. You don’t need to create a Post on this exercise.