Week 3: Lab 2, follow-up

I sent out an email to you all and forgot to post it to the blog as well. So, here's some things from the email I sent out before class yesterday, and some things I spoke about in class concerning your Seeing Red Assignment...

1) The problem with Lynda.com not listing the Photoshop tutorial has been resolved. You should now be able to take the tutorial. The tutorial is long, but you can look at the individual chapters to figure out how to tone, quick edit and crop your photos. There is also a great tutorial for resizing. I went over all three of these along with the videos in class yesterday.

2) You will have until Monday to submit your Seeing Red photos for a second time. That should give you all weekend to tone, crop and take the tutorial. When you submit your photos it will be an additional attempt on Blackboard. I will take your last attempt as the assignment I will grade. Make sure that you include your edited photo captions (in AP Style) in a word document with your first and last name at the top of the left top of the document and label the captions with the corresponding photo document name, and then name the Word document with your last name and captions, for example: Perreaultcaptions.doc.

Also rename the photos as your last name and then 1, 2, 3. So if I was submitting pictures my files would be Perreault1.jpg, Perreault2.jpg, and Perreault3.jpg. NEF files should be converted into jpg files and the files should be the sizes specified in the Seeing Red assignment.

3) Some people wanted to know if they have to buy Photoshop Elements 9 if they have another version of Photoshop that they know how to use. No. But you still have to do the Lynda.com  tutorial and take the quiz. Complete the Photoshop Elements Quiz by  11:59pm on February 10. (Required chapters: 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7)


4) You must re-submit your Seeing Red photos in the format I asked for before class Monday. For each day it is late I will take a point off of the total assignment score.

We are starting the Audio Assignment next week!
Also remember to download Audacity  and view the online guide to learn how to use it. Check out the audio recorder before you come to class Monday. Also check out the audio assignment information.

Remember you must also have taken the WordPress quiz in Blackboard before Friday, February 3, 2012 at 11:59 p.m.

First Blog Assignment

Make sure to post your first blog by 5 p.m. Saturday after watching the WordPress Tutorial on Lynda.com.
Also you should be following me @mediatingmimi on Twitter.  See the below blog examples.

J2150 Lab 1: Intro to blogging

The skills you learn in this class will allow publish messages on multiple platforms. This is important whether you’re covering a news event, a feature story, writing scripts, press releases or using sound with still photography and video. See information about Week 1 here.

You'll be publishing two blogs each week and tweeting those to @MultimediaRice. You can tweet those to me too at @Mediatingmimi. Be sure to add the hash tag #J2150 and your section letter to each tweet (Section C: #J2150C).

You can use WordPress to set up a blogging site after watching the tutorial on Lynda.com. You should have received an email about Lynda.com earlier this week. You are welcome to use a pre-exisiting blog if you have one but be aware the blog will be public. Also, if you have not already, set up a Twitter account. Also follow these twitter links.

After you have set up a site and Twitter account please email me with the web address for and twitter handle at perreaultm@missouri.edu.  Please put J2150 Blog and your name in the subject line.

In your blogs try to include links to other blogs, newsites, multimedia work, photos, and other things you think the class might enjoy. 

Links to help:

Lynda.com
Wordpress.com
Twitter.com