Friday May 18, 2012



Today's Agenda - Web Design

For past assignments look at the assignments-w tab

Final Project Due Dates:
- Seniors - try for May 24
- Everyone Else - try for May 31

This gives us time to individually present, gather comments, and fix up the sites before grading

  • Continue: Final Projects
    - get your first page working and looking the way you would like
    - then just create the other four pages from that - you want your site to have the logo/menu in the same place on each page


Today's Agenda - Technology Tools Class

Tips for iPad Movies:
- you can save images to your camera roll
- you can create a short video with the camera, save that to the camera roll, and insert into your movie project
- iMovie allows you to make a voice recording, set a design theme, and include music
- iMovie allows you to add simple text
- if you need to move parts around you can click and drag them
- Extras for iMovies allows you to create and format text slides - you just need to save them to the camera roll and then add them to your movie
- Extras for iMovie does not work from school but will work at home (I am trying to get this fixed)
* mostly it takes some playing with to learn the program but it is very useful and you can create a high-quality product - ask me if you have questions - don't wait until the end to try and complete this in a day!

* If you are using Movie Maker in class, do not wait until the end to try and finish it up. Remember that these projects cannot be done on another computer once you have started here. If you are using a computer program from home (iMovie, Sony Vegas, Windows Live Movie Maker) then you need to let me know that. The due dates are the same.


Tech Vocabulary

P2P - peer-to-peer - a communication method where the computers are equals (hence the term peer) - the users each have a networking software (such as Limewire) installed

Encryption - the conversion of data into a secret code so it can be passed to another computer safely

DRM (Digital Rights Management) - a system of copyrighting data by putting an encryption or other type of code on it. Apple does this with iTunes songs that you purchase.

Denial of Service Attack - when someone tries to disrupt services needed to conduct daily work - this can be physical damage but can also be internet services needed by a user or business

Driver - software that allows your computer to communicate with hardware (for example: a printer) - you generally need the drivers to install a new piece of equipment - they are often included on a CD or you can get them online

Gold Farming - playing computer games to harvest virtual gold and other goods that can be sold for real cash - particularly prevalent in China

Sexting - the act of sending a text message that explicitly describes sexual acts, desires, or emotions or sending sexual photos or videos. This can put the sender or anyone in possession at risk for prosecution of child pornography - which is considered a felony

Spider - a robot program that fetches web pages and feeds them to a search engine - also known as a webcrawler

W00T - Wow Loot! - an expression of joy - named "2007 word of the year" by Merriam-Webster Dictionary - significant because it is considered a word even though there are no vowels in it - they may look like the letter o but these are zeroes


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