Day Two Notes

oPhoto stitching Exercise panaramic pics; stiching pixs together;
I do not like the Canon camera, it's too advanced for me. I prefer the fuji because it's more idiot or Robin friendly.

GimpShop
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
http://www.gimpshop.com/

Wikis, Blogs, RSS, and CMSs

Art 21: TIME
19:00 - 25:00



Delicious bookmarking tool with a twist; social bookmarking site; list of popular bookmarks that people are using; advantages you get a huge resource of information that have been tagged; socially driven; human powered; when you sign-up u can create a botton which lists all your bookmarks; and will appear in any computer (if you change computers).
http://delicious.com
http://jonsatrom.com/edu/OpenOptions takes feeds;
http://www.videojug.com/articles/video that help people (tutorials);

Blogs
http://twitter.com updates in real-time (search.twitter.com)
http://tumblr.com simple blogger; for first-time bloggers;
http://blogger.com
http://flickr.com (Lib of Congress)

RSS - Real Simple Syndication pulling information;from one place to another;

http://www.bloglines.com/
Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!

Bloglines is an Aggregator...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator

http://digg.com another social bookmarking;
http://www.stumbleupon.com/

WIKI WIKI WIKI like blog; u can add pages; community run site;
http://pbworks.com/academic.wiki
PBworks hosts more classroom workspaces than anyone else in the world, and lets you create a simple, secure workspace in about 60 seconds. Workspaces drive engagement and collaboration. A workspace is a live, evolving document – but gives you user tracking and access controls to monitor your workspace at all times.

http://wikipedia.org has community police to verify norms;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia


CMS
http://moodle.org/ open source community base tool for working in educaiton;
Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
can be used to update the schools website. has componets for posting classes .
Mashup Data
Yahoo Pipes

Embedding Data (Google Maps, YouTube, image, links)g


Who needs school?
Learning, Sharing, & DIY

http://www.tutorom.com/
Eduslide allows anyone to create educational content and deliver it online, free of charge. Within the system we offer different ways of presenting information, using testing modules, wikis, chat, blogs, slideshows, and more. We welcome requests to produce more lesson types

http://www.instructables.com/ community driven site; write instructions; and others can help u improve your instructions to do something;great for ideas in science fair; process driven; people make notes;


Instructables is a web-based documentation platform where passionate people share what they do and how they do it, and learn from and collaborate with others. The seeds of Instructables germinated at the MIT Media Lab as the future founders of Squid Labs built places to share their projects and help others.
http://readymade.com magazine with a blog; how to do magazine;
http://www.videojug.com/
http://readymade.com/

User Created Tutorials
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjuCM-UTXaQ gimp know how; check it out; using screen casting; to record what is occuring on the desktop; (snapzpro=program to purchase appx. $80.00)

Whoa... That's a lot...
Discussion

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gimp remake of photoshop (works on pixles)
creative commons- to remix music;
Inkscape
http://inkscape.org/ program (to purchase) focus on points and keeps things in scale when you want to expand a pix;
Inkscape is a free program.
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Open Office Org

Vector Graphics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

Blender
http://blender.org

http://www.osalt.com -- SITE WITH ALTERNATIVES TO COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE

dafont.com - font share