Technology

It scares me too.  I thought we were going to come to one of these classes in the past couple of weeks, and learn in the lab how to animate our letters.  I thought this because we went to the lab before, to look at everyone's blog, and I thought when we wrote out the ditto's on what we know how to do, most needed help in this area, especially me.
I have a design background from undergrad in School of Visual Arts.  My Mac computer is from then, 1997, as are my design programs, and I also don't have a modem.  So, my current work is done on one of the four laptop/computers from my husbands' job, where I manage to pick up how to get done what I need to get done.  This includes using free programs like gimp instead of photoshop.
Therefore, these are programs I learned one can use to animate our alphabets.  Kudos to Claire for thinking of doing it in powerpoint, a program I learned on the fly last year to show my thesis.  You're Brilliant!

• slide share-works with music
• flicker
• slide rule
• iphoto>
• imovie(wholeness & pan)>
• quicktime
• audio hyjack
• preview
• acrobat professional
• rapid share (to do with flicker)
• drop box 

And this is how my skilled peers created their presentations.  Music, I think is absolutely necessary.  It would have made watching most of the same letters go by more individual and unique.  Critique leader, note taker, and time keeper were the jobs distributed again to keep the show moving.   Practice makes perfect, the show was more fluent this week then last, a show conducted by the class.

We finished the class with assembling our books.  The wax resistant designed paper became the cover over two heavy cardboard's, spaced out to allow for a binding of an accordion folded paper.  I wanted to learn more intricate bookbinding techniques four years ago, after a quicky demo in art ed undergrad, so I bought a book and taught myself.  But I'm always open to learn a new or easier way to do things.  I felt it was a nice, social experience.