Week 6:

Basic Image Editing

Announcements

• No In-Class Meeting Next Week (Oct. 20)– Lab available online– Appointments

• Mid-Term– Due: 6:00 PM Oct. 23 (Fri.)– Post “Yes” on the “Ready for Review” column in

our course gallery page

Mid-Term

• Mid-Term (20%)• Basics of Portfolio Layout– About Me Page– Resume Page– Link to a Blog

• Can Add to “About Me” Page– One Technology Lesson Plan

• Lesson Plan with Technology Integration• Links to Mock-Up Examples of Finished Products

• All the Content should be Published as Web Pages– No Attachments (e.g., Word, PPT)

• Tech. Plan– Specifics

• Goal, Substance, Technology

• Copyright– Mini-Lecture– Copyright in CEP 416

• Class Lab– Image Formats

• JPEG, GIF, PNG– Image Editors

• Google Picasa

• Assignments– Lab– Blogging/ Commenting

• Individual Lab

• Individual Activity

• Min-Lectures

• Class Lab

• Assignments

• Individual Lab

This Week’s “Individual” Activity

• Open up your “Tech Plan” page• Specify the following:– Goal– Substance– Technology– References• Resources• Standards

• Post your lesson plan (if applicable)

Copyright Issues• Copyright

– Intellectual Property Rights• Issues

– Ownership of Student and Faculty Works– Use of Copyrighted Works– Licensed Software and Online Content

• Fair Use– A component of U.S. copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted

material without• obtaining written permission• purchasing the work,• paying the creator a royalty

– provides for the legal, nonlicensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work, and applies when they are used for such applications as scholarship or review

– http://www.edutopia.org/copyright-rules-teachers

Copyright Issues

• Creative Commons License– http://creativecommons.org/– Available to the public for free and legal sharing,

use, repurposing, and remixing– Images• http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/• http://www.globalgridforlearning.com/

• Purchase Loyalty-Free Images– http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php

Copyright Issues in CEP 416

• Fair-Use Guideline– Non-Profit– Classroom Use– Give Proper Credit

• Attribution in Creative Commons License

• Own WorkImage: 'What Have I Done?' http://www.flickr.com/photos/13948669@N07/3667880356

Blogging Assignment 1

• Issues in Educational Technology (250-500 words) – Write about the copyright issues in using online

resources from a teacher's perspective– Some of the topics you may want to address are: • Have you seen any school policy regarding copyright?• Have you used any copyright protected materials

before?• How would you deal with copyright issues when you

want to use online materials in your class?

Did you know…

VLC Media Player

• Open-Source Multimedia Player– Can play multiple formats• MPEG, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP4, MOV, Real, FLV,

etc.– Adobe Flash Player

• PC & Mac Versions

– http://www.videolan.org/

Image Formats

• Image Types Used on the Web– JPEG, GIF, PNG• Each of these formats compress images in different

ways, decreasing the file size, but also introducing distortions

– Image Quality + File Size

Image Formats

• JPG– Most common– “Photo-realistic” images

Image Formats

• GIF– Available colors 256 or less– Logos, picture of text– Transparency– Animation

Image Formats

• PNG– Newest of the three image types– “Lossless” compression format• Do not lose image quality when you save and re-save• Large file size

– Transparency– Issues with older version of Internet Explorer

Image Formats

Image Editing Tools

• Web-Based Image Editing– Google Picasa

• Google account– Picnik

• No registration required– Adobe Photoshop.com

• Desktop-Based Image Editing– Adobe Photoshop Element 6– i-Photo (Mac)

Google Picasa

• Download Picasa 3.5– PC: http://picasa.google.com/– Mac: http://picasa.google.com/mac/

• Picasa Library– Basic-Fixes– Effects– Tuning– Export

Image Editing Lab• In your Picasa library, locate one image you posted on your website

– Image on index (About Me) page• Do the following editing:

– Basic Fixes• I’m Feeling Lucky

– Effects• B&W

• Export the file– Image Size: 480 Pixels– Image Quality: Automatic

• Replace the old image with the newly edited image– Delete the old image– Insert the new image

• Add a link to the page on our course gallery page

Week 6 Assignments

• Due: Midnight Sunday Oct. 18– Reflective Blogging• Issues in Educational Technology

– Copyright issues in using online resources

– Post a link to your page that contains the newly edited image

• Due: Midnight Monday Oct. 19– Comment on your housemates’ blog postings

Individual Lab