Thursday, July 2, 2009

portraits





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

My photo using "gimp" combining 3 shots




Kathleen Barnes

Joanna D.



These are two self portraits I made in the Free Tools class. Thanks for the fun class, Jon! and Angie!

Our Walk!


View Larger Map

By: Megan

Old church around the corner from Marwen.

Here is our group picture


This photo was shot in the morning of 07/02/09.

tracks

Halsted St.

Panorama


Sorry, three different layers have different color temperature.

"What should I do today?"

Chicago Avenue Bridge


My panoramic experience. July 2, 2009

cobblestones and cigarettes

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

we are the web

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html
The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people.

Free Culture


Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they’re inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation.

All creative works—books, movies, records, software, and so on—are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible—technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the First Congress in 1790 was 14 years, renewable once. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we’ve forgotten?

Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can’t do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What’s at stake is our freedom—freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.

FLOSS Is Not Just Good For Teeth


FLOSS is not just good for teeth

Free, Libre and Open Source Explained (finally) in Simple English!


"Why do they call it 'FLOSS' when it doesn't clean your teeth?"

Are you a non-nerd, a human being who happens to use computers without living inside them? Does that make you curious to find out what the buzz regarding open source and free software is all about? What's in it for you? Does it work? Is it fun and easy to use? How is it made and who makes it? And how 'free' or 'open' is it, really? Have you looked long and hard for answers to questions like these in plain English? If that's the case, 'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' could be just what you are looking for.

Impress your techie buddies with the fact that you care for your kernel, and open yourself to a whole new world of concepts that offer challenging and exciting ideas about creativity, collaboration and coding. 'Floss' geeks, make yourselves understood to other human beings - download and distribute 'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' to friends, family and colleagues, so they can finally know and appreciate what keeps you awake while they sleep.

'FLOSS is not just good for teeth' is a collaboratively produced introduction to the concepts that underlie free and open source software, written specially for the non-technical reader, at the Sarai Programme (www.sarai.net) of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.


http://www.sarai.net/publications/occasional/floss-is-not-just-good-for-teeth

End of the Day 01 Notes

[Notes and amendments to Jon's open syllabus - generated by class members in realtime]

I like the idea of Linux because you can download this system on a flash, then use it without having to install it on the computers at school. Our programmer has set up our computers where you cannot download anything without the administrator's key.

Is this communication handled by appletalk?

I need this class badly.

I am glad I am in this class.Free stuff!

First day of class - July 1st
Second day of class - July 2nd

I like this even if I can't find my name!
Hi, teachers, are we having fun yet!
Hello.
Marwen is cool. This is my 3rd Marwen class. mine too.
Great to be here.
This is going to be a trip!

July 1, 2009
Wednesday

Begin at 9AM with DVD REVOLUTION OS
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Revolution_OS/
00:00 - 00:13

RECAP -
Eric S. Reymond
(REV OS) Confronts MS employee in elevator "I'm your worst nightmare
Author:"The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
-represents difference between open source and private corporation software.

Linux
What is LINUX?
Linux is an OPERATING SYSTEM
What is an OS?
An OS is the interface (low level and GUI)
Linux was developed as the glue between a number of FREE SOFTWARE programs

Forks and Iterations
UBUNTU: http://www.ubuntu.com/free; can run on older computers. download to a disk and then it will guide you. There are communities to help you. Ubuntu studio for video... Look for your machine type.

EDUBUNTU: http://edubuntu.org/ educational; targeted for learning;

Dynebolic: http://dynebolic.org/lightweight multimedia operating system; save on a hard-drive;

Indiana initiative 1:1-one computer for child!! using linux. Not payng license fees.
Indiana high schools save state $1m by running Linux: http://education.zdnet.com/?p=107
Implementation Study #2: Indiana Desktop Linux: http://www.k12opentech.org/implementation-study-2-indiana-desktop-linux

Linus Torvald-text base
The Engineer
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds/

Richard Stallman
Author: "Free Software, Free Society"
Author: GNU
The Hacker
The Philosopher
http://stallman.org/
(REV OS) Social hack in the MIT Media Lab to subvert passwords

Home Brew Computer Club - Open Letter by Microsoft
1970's - Microsoft was influential in Closing Source Code

Explanation of Proprietary VS Open
Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org/ educational material 4 free software.

GNU, BSD, ETC.

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Intro to course
Intro to each other

* Start Class by opening teacher notes in SUBETHA EDIT (shared, open, and editable)
Open Source rests upon principles... basic human principles of openness
"Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer."
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
The freedom to copy, the freedom to use, the freedom to modify, and the freedom to share.

Just to confuse things:
the idea of open-source beer has been around since the 1990's as a joke: http://humorix.org/articles/1998/08/beer/
The Danish Hacker/Artist Krew SuperFlex did it for real:
http://www.superflex.net/projects/freebeer/ intro. concepts of open source & sharing; making things better;
http://www.superflex.net/
http://www.freebeer.org/blog/

Power in numbers
There are tons of people participating in this culture (Developers, Teachers, Students, Makers, and Consumers)

Why do people do it?

DVD HACKERS - WIZARDS OF THE ELECTRIC AGE
07:20 - 13:00

What do you think of when you hear the word hacker? creative problem solver; interesting solution 4 a problem; an artist;
http://is.gd/1jDEf

Artists and Hackers are similar they creat things with a differnet perspective.
Artists as Hackers
Artistic Hackers
Hacker Artists
Art Hackers
Huh?

Both hackers and artists are creative problem solvers.

work 20 and 80 rule means use your right side and left side of the brain to solve problems. (work less (20% and get the job done).

Contemporary Cyber-Media (if that's even a term) is similar to the Open Source ethos.

MUSIC/VIDEO
REMIX mix info.
William Burroughs used the cut-up technique developed by Brion Gysin to remix language in the 1960s. take sample writing; cut it; & remix;
Pop-music artists like Radiohead, NIN, Beck, and Bjork have adopted Open Source Approaches for various projects.
http://www.radioheadremix.com/ upload ur own music;
http://www.9inchnails.com/remixes/ pay what you will for albums; release files; or source codes 4 public to remix;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfout_rg PSA features remixes of the community
Shining

TOOL:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ best for sound (waveform editing)! free, free. great alternative to "garage band"
/ runs on windows; mac; manipulates sound; free and download; u can make loops;

Book -Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig-How does this work with copyright? copyright doesn't make sense; esp. if we agree with sharing;remixing; etc.

http://www.illegal-art.org/video/index.html
Negative Land

MASH UP putting 2 or more diff. sources to make a statement; tweaking;
Programming (the mashing of two data sources):
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Music and Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrpB4VOUuc8 (Audio:SoulWax, Video:COODOO) a mashing of 2 diff. musical scene (Nirvana vs. Destiny's Child)


Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture/ A shared culture -video--they host contests, remixing-for students


Mashups, Remixes, and maluable media IS THE REALITY our students are growing up within.
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CREATING IMAGES-
You Tube -
DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL GIMP
http://gimp.org - program - images manipulation
Vocab: Source Code, Compiled or Uncompiled / Porting a program, Download Mirror

Mac X11: http://developer.apple.com/Darwin/runningX11.html

GIMP 2.6
Download GIMP FOR MAC Binary http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

Introduction to GIMP
Mini-Project
Painting and brushes
SELF PORTRAIT (mirrors?)
Create new document
Create new layer (Transparency)
FACE
Draw with brushes
Layer color and size - just like painting
Change size and color of brush
CLOTHES
Select shape with Lasso
Create new document
Draw pattern
Crop and select
Fill with pattern
http://www.tartanmaker.com/ create or use patterns to edit pictures.
http://www.stripegenerator.com/ to make patterns with stripes to edit pictures

Add some text if you like:
http://www.dafont.com/

Intro to Layers
Choose or draw a background

google doc (part of gmail) - http://blogger.com/ to create a blog;
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc647jtm_3fnjjqkgz

When you save documents; u may want to choose what kind document png or jpeg;png=for images; jpeg= for photos;
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PhotoManipulation
Basic manipulation
Adjustments
Clone Tool
Water Bottle Demo

Dove, Evolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U --great example of photo imagining.

http://www.glennferon.com/ shows how images are edited
Photoshop Disasters: http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/ blog; people who made errors on photos;
Falsification of Images: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~hick0088/classes/csci_2101/false.html
WTC Hoax: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blphoto-wtc.htm
SF BAY Hoax: http://www.sfbayadventures.com/helicopter_sharks.html

Create a Mashup:
Find two images and put them together.
Search Google or CC on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
http://images.google.com/

Select large enough images

POST MASHUPS and other images created on the class-blog. Create class-blog in class.

Web X.X for Teachers
Do you have a Facebook Profile? Get one.
Del.icio.us (openedu) http://delicious.com/
http://jonsatrom.com/edu/OpenOptions/
Flickr: Library of Congress and Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/
EFF: http://eff.org
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org
MIT OpenCourseWare: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
READ: FREE CULTURE by Lawrence Lessig: http://www.free-culture.cc/
http://www.tutorom.com/
http://moodle.org
http://answers.yahoo.com/
Twitter in the classroom: http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2008/twitter-for-academia/
Search Twitter: http://search.twitter.com/
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2699/a-professors-tips-for-using-twitter-in-the-classroom
TwitPic: http://twitpic.com

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