Week 2: Lab 2

Here's some info to follow up from last class and prepare you for class tomorrow....

Answers to the first Current events quiz:

1. Senator Kirk
2. Joe Paterno, Penn State
3. Chile
4. Number 2
5. In a 57 year old woman's suitcase at a KC bus station.

Quiz grades have been posted to blackboard

Tomorrow: 

Remember to bring the cameras and a memory card to class. Have you done all the readings for class? These will help you prepare.

We'll do a photo assignment where you and a partner will practice taking photos. Make sure to try out the photo simulator before then.

Be prepared to present three ideas for your community issues project, although your proposal is not dune until Thursday evening.

We will review AP Caption Style

Due by the end of this week:

Two tweets and a blog post by  Saturday at 5 p.m. if you have questions email me before noon on Friday. If you need a topic to blog about talk about the difference between using a DSLR camera and other cameras you have used in the past. I'll be posting a blog roll of your classmate's blogs this weekend so you can keep track of each other. I'll also be posting a list of twitter handles.

Make sure to complete WordPress tutorial on Lynda.com on ways to enhance your site. (Required chapters: 2,4,5,6 and 9). You will need to complete the 50-question WordPress quiz in Blackboard before Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. There will be no extension. You can take the quiz as often as you like to increase your score up to the deadline.

Your community issue Project Proposal deadline is Thursday, January 26th at 11:59 p.m. Please send me an email with your proposal. Come prepared to present three ideas for this tomorrow in class, but the final proposal does not need to be email to me until Thursday night.  

Make sure you have taken the Readings Quiz that was announced in class on Tuesday. 

For next week: 

Have three photos for your "Seeing Red" Assignment. These should be turned in by Monday's class (5 p.m.). Please post them in Blackboard in the designated folder. If they come in after the beginning of your first lab, you will lose a letter grade. See grading policy for a rubric on how we grade your first assignments.

We will  be working with these photos during Lab 2 of week 3. Toning them in photoshop. Read over assignment for Week 3 on the Convergence Site.