Argentina

We took a brief survey about the student's knowledge about Argentina and some important leaders. The results are surprising.

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Brendan's Flash File

What do you think this Flash file creates. Notice the staggered start of various layers.

10 Step Star Wars

1. Create a background.
2. Create a new layer.
3. Make a text box with your first line of text in it.
4. Insert a keyframe at 80.
5. Use free transform to shrink and move the text to where you want it to be at its end.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 for your other lines of text each with its first keyframe 25 frames after the one before it.
7. Go online and find music.
8. Right-click and save to your file.
9. Go to Flash again and go to File > Import > Import to Library > Select the music file and hit okay.

Click the music from your library and drag it into the background

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Flash File( .fla)

Exam the two slides. If you would play this flash file, what would you see?

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Images

How to get images

There are many sources of images for your digital story that are not subject to the copyright laws. These images can be reused and modified

• Creative Commons, http://search.creativecommons.org/
• Flickr, http://flickr.com/creativecommons
• A common category for reusable images , Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
• FlickrCC, http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/
• Free images, http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
• Pics4Learning educational images http://www.pics4learning.com/
• Historic photos from the Library of Congress, http://www.flickr.com/commons

Photos Linked to Photos

Presented at the TED Conference...Amazing photos with the same meta data can be linked together

Technology and Friends

One thing that we are observing is how technology affects our world---school,work, love, family and play. Has the internet, email, social sites changed our definition of a "friend". Has it changed our relationships?

Microsoft Tries to Purchase Yahoo

In our last communication Yahoo had plans to restructure and become more like Facebook and other social sites. Now Microsoft has offered share holders a lot on money $44 billion to purchase Yahoo. Why do you think Microsoft would do this? What advantages do they see? Will this move influence the strategic plans of Google? Stay tuned. Things happen quickly on the internet?
What do you think?

Listen to conversation with Times reporter, Andrew Sorkin http://graphics8.nytimes.com/podcasts/2008/02/01/02backstory-sommer-sorkin.mp3