Project Junction

Class,
Here’s some things you can expect to see on the test next week:

Are Hyperlinks usually underlined and a different color from normal text?
Be prepared to restate the keyboard shortcuts and what they do.
Be prepared to restate the HTML codes we’ve reviewed.
How can you reduce the file size of a PowerPoint presentation?

Picture Tools > Compress pictures
Send [...]

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Class,
Here’s your homework for the week.

Complete your resume project
Review “How to” PhotoShop tutorials:

PhotoShop Layers Tutorial.  Click Here
How to use the PhotoShop pen tool video.  Click Here
How to use the Pen Tool instructions.  Click Here
Crop a photo to a specific frame size.  Click Here
How to create a portrait studio background. Click Here
How to use Filter > [...]

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Class,
Here’s the results from our class survey regarding access to the computer lab.  Since many of you do not own either the MS office suite or the Adobe CS Suite, you absolutely need open access to the lab to put in the required 4 hours of homework per week.
This is clearly a problem.  I will [...]

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Class,
Here’s a few questions you can expect to see next Monday:

What does DPI stand for?  Enough people got it wrong this week that’s I’m gong to ask again.
What is a reasonable DPI for a web picture?  A:72
What is a reasonable DPI for professional printing?
Why is Delicious social bookmarking useful?  A:  watch the video in my [...]

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Class,
Here’s the lesson from last night:  computer-apps-lesson-3
Here’s your homework for the week.  Remember, if you have any trouble at all, call me or askyour question by posting a comment to this post.

Complete ABOUT ME project and upload to slideshare
> Notify me and your class “buddy” with URL
> Use your “buddy” to provide constructive criticism
Watch “What [...]

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Class,
For our quiz next Monday, you can expect to see these questions (and potentially a few more). Please put your super short term memory to work and memorize these answers:

I will ask [again] for the two architectural constraints of the web.  Many of you gave single word answers like “Schema”  … that’s not plain English.  [...]

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Class,
That fire alarm sure HURT tonight.  But stuff happens.  So let’s move on.
Here’s our lesson from tonight and last week:
computer-apps-lesson-1
computer-apps-lesson-2
Here’s your homework for this week.

We agreed by consensus to use the textbook for reference.  You do not need to read the textbook assignments in the syllabus!  Instead, I will post our lessons each week and [...]

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Class,
We will use this picture to learn Photoshop Basics this evening.  Specifically, you will learn:

Zoom Ctrl + / -
Image adjustments \ auto levels
Image adjustments Brightness \ contrast
Image crop
Clone stamp tool
Resize image

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In order to direct more traffic to my new blog, I need your help to “salt the tip jar.” The PM Nation visiting from inside of IBM already knows what to do. But for my novice readers, I’d like your support by sharing my posts on del.icio.us. This is a social bookmarking site that [...]

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Class,
It was great meeting you this evening and I look forward to discussing practical tips and tricks for getting things done.   Here’s your homework for the week:

Create a file folder called “System tools” on your desktop on your home computer.  Find conf.exe, disk cleanup and disk defrag applications and send them to the desktop.  [As [...]

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