Rome again!

Today I worked on a new tutorial for Layout and Formal Text. This one was actually really easy because basically all you do is create a bunch of text boxes and then just change the fonts and text however you want. Adobe ROME is getting a lot easier now that I know some of the basics. Here's the layout one I did about biking. It was kind of fun because I wrote a bunch of random things about biking around the world, so you should read it! It's really funny, well interesting haha.

After this, I worked on trying to make certificates for the talent show winners. I was only able to make one certificate, but here's the design for it.

Short Day!(:

Today I worked with Adobe Rome again and I followed a tutorial to do a logo. Most of it was easy but some steps were a little confusing. I think Rome takes so time to get used to, but after a while you get used to it and it becomes a lot easier, kind of like photoshop. Here's the logo I made with my initials. I messed around with the gradient tool to make it different colors.

Adobe Rome

Well today I finished my wiki article, and the link to it is on another post. After that, I looked at some other articles people did for their web 2.0 tools and some of them were interesting. I learned a couple of new things. Then, after viewing the wiki articles, I tried out Adobe Rome. I followed the step by step tutorials and overall it was really easy. The only problem was some of the instructions were kind of confusing, but I was able to figure it out. I think it's a cool program, and the adjustments are quick and easy since you can just scroll your mouse over most things instead of clicking. Here's the one I made...

Here's the citation for the picture I got:
Petrov, Marina. "Stock.xchng - Coloseo (stock Photo by Mpetrov)." Stock.xchng - the Leading Free Stock Photography Site. 9 Mar. 2010. Web. 18 Feb. 2011. <http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1266307>.


That was basically all we did today, and at the end of class, we saw the last of the presentations for the web 2.0 tools. Everyone did a good job because I didn't get super bored from watching like 25 presentations.

Wiki

Today we got our rough drafts back, and we turned them into actual wiki articles online. It was actually really easy, and I liked the overall outcome. This is basically all we did today, besides seeing other people's presentations for their web 2.0 tool. Here's my wiki article for Blogger!

Wiki Article

What I did today/ Text Animation

Today we first had to write a sample for multimedia. We were supposed to write about our web 2.0 tool and write it like a wiki article. It was a little confusing trying to word it like a wiki article, but I managed to write a well developed sample. By this point, I can basically talk about my web 2.0 tool in my sleep...

Other than that, I finished my text animation!! I'm so happy and it was a lot of fun! I exported the keynote as a quicktime onto this post. I'm hoping that it will work. If it doesn't, then I'll probably just have it on google docs. Next time I guess we'll be discussing what's happening in Egypt and I already have some information about it on an earlier post. That's basically all we did today. Here's the video to my text animation and hopefully it will work. If it doesn't here's the google docs link, and just download the keynote:
The Real Princess

Text animation Day 2

We were supposed to finish our mini project today. I'm really close to finishing it. I just need one more slide. Overall, I really like mine because there are a lot of cool animations. I'm not really sure how to post it onto the blog though. Next time, I'll definitely be done with my keynote. I just need to add some finishing touches. It's actually really time consuming though, but it's fun.

TEXT ANIMATION(:

Today we had a project where we have to create a slideshow that had text animation. First I chose a story off of Project Gutenburg (a website where you can download books for free) and looked up fairytales because that seemed like a fun story to use. I chose the book Andersen's Fairy Tales By: Hans Christian Andersen. After that, I chose one of the stories in the book called The Real Princess which is basically like the Princess and the Pea. After watching the example, I kind of got an idea on what text animation is. The tutorial was kind of confusing, and instead of using it, I kind of learned how to do the animations on my own. It's actually really fun and easy. This is one of the projects where you get to be creative. In order to do different animations, you would have to use several different text boxes to do different animations, and each one you have to do a separate text box, which was kind of time consuming and annoying. Other than that everything went smoothly and I got about halfway done with my presentation. Hopefully next time I'll get done, but I really like my outcome so far.

Surveys

So today more people presented and I was able to take surveys of people that had their survey uploaded correctly. I already took the survey for...

-Alaan 

-Rudy

-Isabel

-David P

-David K

-Deborah

-Randy

We also researched about Egypt social media and found some interesting information. Other than that, all we did today was take surveys, finish work from last time, and watched presentations. My presentation turned out pretty good, and it turned out the way I planned.(:

Egypt Social Media

I read an article about the problems with Egypt right now. It talked about how Egypt's connection to internet and cell phones were shut down. Many protestors would tweet or put on their facebook about the whole issue going on over there. They also talked about wether or not the social media is causing a revolution in Egypt. Even after they shut everything down, they still found way of communications to the outside world. Now that they have lost their internet and can't protest online, they're taking different actions, which is basically going out on the streets and actually doing something.