Monday, June 18:

Photoshop Elements Basics

Digital Images

Integrated Lessons and/or Personal Projects

Topics covered:

• Selection Tools
• Layers and Shapes
• Text and Filters
• Styles and Effects
• Drawing tools
• Digital Art

Tutorials:

• Castle Lesson
• Layers and Shapes Lesson

Topics Covered:

• Digital Images
• Photo Editing
• Digital Picture Repair
• Digital picture Art/Filters
• Composite Pictures
• Changing psd file formats

Files needed:

• Kansas field
• Old Photo
• Clouds
• Daffodil
• Space pictures: female1, male1, male2, shuttle, skyline, space
• Olympics pictures: bobsledding, curling, hockey, mens slalom, Olympics logo, Sasha Cohen

Tutorials

• Photo Editing and Backgrounds Lesson
• Digital Picture Art Lesson
• Composite Pictures Lesson

Topics Covered:

• Lesson Integration Ideas
• Practice with lessons
• Personal Integration Project
• Questions and discussion

Files needed:

• girl walking
• laptop
• English figures of Speech

Tutorials:

• Idiom Lesson
• Personification Lesson
• Alliteration Lesson
• Your Name in Greek Lesson
• Mesopotamia Poster Lesson
• Mother's Day Poster Lesson
• Science Diagram Lesson
• Graduation Cover Design Lesson

Tuesday, June 19

Digital Pictures: Handling, organizing and using

Topics covered:

• Taking, downloading and organizing pictures
• Quick fixes and editing digital pictures
• Printing and creating thumbnail pages
• Digital Creations-Slide shows, albums, photo books, greeting cards and photo galleries
• Creating picture galleries

Projects:

• Taking pictures and/or using pictures brought from participants
• Using those pictures to create slideshows, albums, etc
• Combine photos into composite, or collage projects
• Your "shoe" highlighted
• "Put yourself in another picture"
• Bookcover

Tutorials:

• Creating Multimedia Projects pdf
• Creating Multimedia Projects exercise files

Wednesday, June 20

Creating Multimedia Projects with Adobe Premier Elements

Topics Covered:

• Starting new projects
• Importing files
• Creating a Slide Show
• Title Screens
• Video Effects
• Animations
• Transistions
• Narrations
• Background Music
• Creating DVDs. QuickTime Movies, and Windows Media Videos (WMV)

Files Needed:

• Egg drop pictures: one, two, three, four, five, six
• Egg drop videos: V_one, V_two, V_three, V_four, V_five, V_six, V_seven, V_eight, V_nine

Projects:

• Culminating Project: Create a standards-based video presentation that integrates still pictures as well as video clips (from United Streaming and other sources) that can be used in your classroom (or locus of control) to instruct and /or demonstrate a concept.

Photoshop Elements Links

 Adobe Digital Kids Club-Lessons and Activities

Integrating Technology in the Sixth Grade Curriculum-Website developed in Educational Technology Masters Program

Sara's Portfolio