29 Jan
Posted by drtech as Assignment, Authenticity, ITGS
On Tuesday – you will receive feedback on your latest Paper 2 assignment, we will go through some Graphics content and also a main discussion on Authenticity of photographic media in the digital age! After this the following four classes I am either away on the Drama trip or involved in Options Meetings. So this puts alot of responsibility on yourselves to independently work through the following assignments at your own pace. Note as always you can follow through in which ever order you would like:-
Mini-Assignment 1
You have been using iPAD’s for a couple of weeks now – so time to return to blog what you have learnt and evaluate how things are going so far. So as before use your WordPress app and in “…iPAD or not to iPAD…” blog – write a post that discusses your experiences in the following areas :- explain where you have used the iPAD within a classroom setting, evaluate two of your favourites productivity/educational apps so far and why they are so, discuss your views on participating in the training of both students and teachers thinking through IT terminology and social and ethical issues. Make sure to include a photo/picture and correct paragraphs and grammar – this weblog is read by the world!
Mini-Assignment 2
Finish notes on the Graphics chapter of “Tomorrow’s Technology and You” using Notability or similar and share with me through a GDOC. Then translate this into a simple mindmap including the main definitions using Popplet Pro. Yes another app you will need to download – note if you are clever you should be able to colloborate on one mindmap between the four of you?
Biggie-Assignment 3
Well you have read about graphics in your computer confluence so now its time to play around with the well known Photoshop CS3 to see practically what can be done and what you might think is ethical and unethical in terms of digital manipulation. First you need to practice and understand many of the processes and tools that you have access to that enable you to alter photographs in CS5. Yes you will need a laptop to practice these I will provide some tutorials (please see the Firstclass conference setup for you – yes I know it is a bit old school but the this still works for the time being) – of which you must do these three at least – Wound Tutorial, Balloon Tutorial, Aging Tutorial. But most of you will need to use your own video tutorials as well etc that you find. These should include the use of the following tools:-
More tools than you thought..huh. Well now you have practiced with them it is time to use them to change some photos to see what you believe is the difference between ethical and unethical. You must first take your own digital pictures of as many teachers around the campus as possible. This could be group photos, portraits, action in fact whatever you would like to take. As a group from the photographs, choose which two you will all use to manipulate. From these photos you need to change and manipulate the two photos in two ways:-
You will need to use as many of the skills that you have practiced that are listed above ad maybe need to practice or improve with new skills. Remember Photoshop has untold features and power. Both the photos should on initial glance look untouched, the more professional the better grade you will receive. Be original and creative…and have fun!
P.S. To get you thinking further take the hoax test, and then think about which stakeholders of these photographs might have found the fakes as unethical (thanks to Coolness 16 for the website)?
Mini-Assignment 4
It is finally time to introduce you to the Major project so first of all go to the Project part of Wiki and Eghs – this is the wiki you will also be using for your Paper 3 Case Study – so you might as well shortcut this to your desktop. Then read through all the documentation so you get a good idea of what you will need to do.
Then construct your pitch – 2) Going to the Construct ICT Board to Pitch the Main Project Ideas as a Keynote presentation that you can show on your iPAD. We will talk a little about iCloud beforehand so you can either construct on your iPAD or on OSX.
Assignment 5
Finally – now (we will do this on Tuesday) that you are sorted with your feedreader app – Mr. Reader and Diigo – you must socially bookmark at least five websites that you either tag with ITGS or with iPAD that you believe are relevant to either weblog you are part of. Remember these will automatically become part of a blog post so choose well!
Adobe Photoshop
apocalypse
Book
brain
cells
Chrome
Copyright
digital
Digital Immigrant
Digital Native
Education
Facebook
Fats Million
Firefox
Google
Image editing
Intellectual Property
ITGS
Jaron Lanier
Lawrence
Lawrence Lessig
Lessig
Marc Prensky
networks
of
people and machines
Photoshop
prensky
Privacy
Protocols
rat
Remix
robot
Schneier
scientist
Security
Spreadsheet
Trust
tweets
twitter
warcraft
world
wow
You Are Not A Gadget
YouTube Artificial Intelligence (36)
Arts Nd Entertainment (12)
Assignment (62)
Authenticity (11)
Blogroll (3)
Business/Employment (12)
Case Study (5)
Control (14)
Database (8)
Deadlines (4)
Delicious Links (212)
Education (28)
Equality (6)
Examinations (5)
Globalisation (14)
Health (10)
Integrity (8)
Intellectual Property (17)
IT Systems (37)
ITGS (982)
Just for Fun (36)
Models and Simulations (3)
People and Machines (45)
Policues and Standards (13)
Politics and Government (13)
Portfolios (5)
Presentation No Show (7)
Privacy (30)
Quiz (1)
Reliability (24)
Science Nd Environment (8)
Security (26)
Surveillance (4)
video (3)
Web 2.0 (13)
Wiki (2)
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