Amanda Williams

November 25, 2007

Aims and Objectives: This week I wanted to complete the bulk of my assignments over the weekend before Thanksgiving break so that I could focus on developing my movie over break. I wanted to take some pictures for my project, and begin working on putting it all together. I also wanted to try to find some suitable music for my project, and look up information about the program Audacity, to use to merge audio files for it. I feel like I have accomplished my goals and I am excited to finish up my project and see the final result!

Declarative Knowledge: I learned that finding suitable music for my movie may be more difficult than I first thought, and putting it all together is going to take some serious time. I learned about the photo sharing application PicasaWeb, and about using my digital camera to upload photos to the program.

 

Procedural Knowledge: To upload photos onto the Picasa Web application, you must have a google account and pictures on your computer.

1. Sign into your google account, and go to the photos section. 

2. It will prompt you to download the application.

3. After it is finished downloading, open the program and click on “upload photos.”

4. Follow the instructions to select the file name and then click upload.

5. After the pictures are uploaded you can edit them using the photo editor and choose whether or not you would like to make them public or not. Then, photos you make public are available on your Picasa Web website. Mine is http://picasaweb.google.com/starra04

 

Conditional Knowledge:I will be able to use everything I learned this week to complete my project for CD 315. I will also be able to use my digital camera and photo uploading skills in the future for fun or to complete another multimedia presentation. I feel like I have learned to complete some valuable tasks, and every minute I spend on this movie is adding to my skills as a digitally literate American student.