Digital Text

Digital Text
What forms/kinds of digital text do you see here?

How will we organize all of this data?

Look for 3 cool ideas and jot them down on an index card while you watch... then get ready to answer these questions on your first blog post.

Reminder: Correct format requirements apply to all writing in this class. You have a WIDE audience! Consider typing in Word first for help with grammar/spelling.

Getting Started on Blogs and Podcasts

1. Helps to operate in at least 2 tabs on FireFox: One for viewing and one for editing.
2. Blogs in plain English: Click here.
3. Get your Google Account (unless you already have one) Click here:
   
4. Set up your blogger account first: Click here.
   
5. How follow the podcast steps: Click here.
   
6. GarageBand Tutorial video steps. Click here.
7. Recording for Podcasts with Audacity. Click here.
   
8. Creating a Podcast with blogger YouTube. Click here.
9. How to publish your podcast on Blogger. Click here.
10. Blogger Help
11. Podcasting in Plain English
12. Embedding a YouTube video on your blog. Click here.
    

Challenge!

xtranormal.com

You should have enough information about your favorite junk food product to try this.

First, create your COUNTER AD for your product before playing with this. Remember that you will need a slogan, expert testimony, nutritional information and images "real photos".

Remember to TYPE UP your headings for your "Truth" Counter Ad.

You will present this on Tuesday and Thursday. You need to show your ad to the class. Be ready to pull up the commercial ad that you found for contrast to your ad.

Okay... then, if you have time, use the information from your notes to make an xtranormal movie with lego characters who talk about your junk food. They will be arguing, one for one against.

Read the directions. Notice that you can add gestures, change camera angles, and more!

Parody

Saturday Night Live? The Colbert Report? What is this type of "entertainment" Go here

Digital Nation

Digital Nation will tickle your brain with ideas. Consider these:

Geeks are normal now.

Technology = Oxygen This is not good or bad. It is powerful, though. What we do with it determines much.

We are consumed by that which nourishes us. Technology?!
Sonnet 73
In me thou seest the glowing of such fire
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
*Consumed with that which it was nourished by*



Do virtual worlds bring us together or make being alone more bearable? Do they "re-write the rules of engagement"?

PowerPoints on Blogger Through Slideshare

I googled PowerPoints on Blogger and came up with Slideshare. We are going to try this. Sign up right away.

We will learn together!