Mrs. Donohue's Class Blog

Link to MI quiz

2011-12-01T00:15:08Z

http://www.jaconline.com.au/sosealive/home/mitest.swf
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Rookie Training for CSI

2011-11-29T19:18:41Z

http://forensics.rice.edu/
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Welcome to CSI!

2011-10-27T19:32:18Z

http://forensics.rice.edu/

Today is the first day of your training! Please copy and paste the
following link into your browser to begin your training!

forensics.rice.edu/
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Session Three

2011-10-27T15:18:53Z

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Ansel Adams questions

2011-04-28T13:51:28Z

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ViD3yTXNCEqpxb0pf1iZemP0xdacZTZ7RcerHAsqwWQ
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Nature Assignment

2011-04-15T12:56:47Z

3 - Excellent
2 - Some improvement needed
1 - Snapshot with obvious errors

30 nature photos that you took
In one folder labeled 30 best natures

Test grade
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TABLOID DAILY GRADE

2011-04-05T17:11:11Z

We will begin working on our ethics / journalism unit. By week's end we will
have made significant progress toward completing a "tabloid style" journal.
We will explore how photo alterations and the lack of fact-checking can
reduce the reliability of articles. We will examine ways to test what we
read for validity. We will also improve our Photoshop editing skills by
producing the tabloid product.

DIRECTIONS:

You have been hired to write for the Weird News tabloid. You are responsible
for writing 2 articles and creating the Photoshop graphics to illustrate
EACH article. All work will be done in black and white.

Here are some headlines that may help get your creative juices flowing for
your writing portion. *You may choose to write your own headline, but it
must be tasteful and school appropriate. Fellow classmates and Oak Grove
staff are not to be included.*

- "Dog Lands Plane After Pilot Has Heart Attack"
- "Man Wins $25,000 Bet By Swallowing Watermelon Whole"
- "Earth Is a Giant Egg"
- "Ravioli Worker Rolls In Dough"
- "Walking Catfish Eats Farmer"
- "Veggie-Eating Mother Has Green Baby"
- "Air Force Pilot Reports Seeing Flying Pigs"
- "Dog Eats Eight Wristwatches"
- "Talking Dolphin Predicts Future"
- "Burglar-Alarm Factory Robbed"
- "Man Collects 119 Pounds of Lint"
- "Metal-Eating Bugs Chew Through Car in Just Five Days"
- "Porcupine Falls Head Over Heels in Love -- With a Broom"
- "Elvis Opens Frozen Yogurt Stand on Jupiter"
- "Dog Missing Since 1940 Returns, Bites Master"
- "Your Remote Control Could Launch Nuclear Weapons"
- "Baby Grows Sideburns During Visit to Graceland"
- "Her Son Is a Werewolf"
- "Bodybuilder Explodes"
- "Aliens Wrote the Constitution"
- "Roaches Take Over New York City Bus"
- "Plumber Goes Down the Toilet"
- "Missing Baby Found Inside Watermelon -- He's Alive!"
- "Talking Parrot Fingers Hit Man"
- "Ads on Tombstones Cut Burial Costs in Half"
- "Bigmouth Swami Swallows Himself"
- "Champion Bullfighter Killed By Bulldozer"
- "Researchers Discover Language That Only Women Understand"
- "Dead Hubby Buried With Winning Lotto Ticket in Pocket"
- "Man Weds 20 Women in One Year"
- "Mom Trades Twins for Lottery Ticket"
- "Girl Gets Pig's Arm -- Becomes Bowling Champ"

checklist for tabloid grade

2011-04-05T17:08:00Z

https://docs.google.com/View?id=d6dvtcv_1558cxf6zpgv
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Idiom Intro and Examples

2011-04-04T18:21:00Z

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Jing

2011-03-31T18:42:03Z

http://blog.simplek12.com/education/how-to-use-jing-in-your-classroom/
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Photo investigation by city

2011-03-30T13:11:21Z

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1bo3LUJVJUq8KetfRIHS0a2z8tIuuPMBN5ctEJQ1T-GQ
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portrait tips

2011-03-23T18:41:46Z

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/10-ways-to-take-stunning-portraits
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retouching assignment

2011-03-22T18:54:16Z

Your job is to create an ad for a product that either improves the skin,
brightens the eyes or whitens the teeth. You will show a before and after
photo. You will also create a name for your product. You will use
Photoshop. You can layout your ad using a Powerpoint slide or MS Word.

*Grading (each component is worth 20%):*
Before and after photo (after photo is retouched by student)
Product has a creative, but appropriate name
Quality of retouching
Layout
Overall Design and Effort

Assignment for today - Thurs., Feb 24th

2011-02-24T12:49:08Z

Digital Photography Assignment

Ansel Adams

Complete this assignment ***after*** you have completed your emotions
project. The following written assignment is a 100 point daily grade.

Goals:

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To pay tribute to one of the greatest photographers of all time.
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To review works of art by one of the most well known photographers
- To review works of art by a black and white artist

Process: Using the internet, you will visit at least three websites about
Ansel Adams in order to learn about him. You will create a biography of
Ansel Adams. Please put this in MS Word. *Do NOT plagiarize, copy and paste,
etc.* Instead, paraphrase what you learn. You will also need to include the
addresses of the websites where you found your information. This biography
should be at least 1 and 1/2 pages long. You should use one inch margins and
double space. Twelve point font is required.

Turn In procedure: After making sure that you have saved your biography in
your student account, print out a copy and turn it in.

link for music

2011-02-17T14:06:14Z

http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/

Please note that you should use FireFox and customize your download to get
this in your student account.

In Firefox:

1. Go to tools
2. Options
3. about halfway down the window is a downloads option. Browse for your
student account.
4. Press ok.
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list of emotions

2011-02-14T19:34:22Z

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Zs71cOuzL9oqEcDuz4ApbiWzWWiJ3yUHUwiOI1PaGHA
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Check list for the emotions project

2011-02-13T19:11:16Z

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=10OLvBedwLdUMDBv54pdngX5qr3cNFTOIKuIix-xdmUg
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Friday assignment

2011-02-11T14:08:16Z

We are running about a day behind, so we will work on idioms on Monday. In
order for everyone to have time to get their project completed, we are going
to have a catch up day today. I realize many people are working hard, while
others are done or are near done. In order to progress to the next critical
step, we need to have all of our work completed by the end of the day today.
Any work that is not completed will need to be made up at an alternate time.
You may come early in the morning to make it up or schedule a time that is
convenient for both of us.

1. Your checklist should be complete by today

Once you are done with your checklist, you ***must*** clean up your student
account. To do this do the following:

A. Choose your best photos from your macro project and place them in your
portfolio. You should have a minimum of 2 that you want to keep as your best
pieces.

B. Open a PhotoBucket account. This provides online storage. You can do
that here: http://photobucket.com/

C. Load any photos you want to keep to your PhotoBucket account, and delete
any unwanted ones.

D. Do not delete any photos that are in your PORTFOLIO.

E. Do not delete your ABC movie.

Task completion list

2011-01-28T14:01:04Z

The following items should be completed today:

1. The Photoshop Questions that are on my blog -- many have already turned
in their hard copy
2. MacroProject - on PC, shown to class
3. bwcolor photo from Thursday should be completed
4. Select a tool activities from the textbook pages 1-19, 1-20. & 1 - 21
5. Show and hide palettes activity Photoshop 1-22
6. Read pages 1-24 and 1-25
7. Do Hide and display a layer page 1-26
8. Move a layer page 1-27
9. Create a subfolder in your Photoshop folder called PROJECTS. Work
project builder 2 on page 1-41 and save it here.

make up quiz link

2011-01-26T19:28:04Z

http://challenge.zoho.com/welcomeToTest.do?aId=26275000000031001&subDomain=oghstechnology
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