Week 15

Today we learned about the IPad, Windows Movie Maker, and Flip Cameras

What I learned about the technology was the IPad could be used like a laptop or used with a pen and you handwrite out what you want to say and it puts it into print. Windows Movie Maker can be tricky and the one that we were using stopped responding and closed out and we had to restart all over again. The Flip Camera can pick up sound and can record what is going on in one area. Also using Windows Movie Maker and the Flip Camera we put together a video promoting Owens Community College’s Business Department.

How can it be used or is being used in your academic or personal life? The IPad I could handwrite out my assignment and then they would print in regular type. Windows Movie Maker can make movies out of pictures and videos that you create using a Flip Camera. The Flip Camera can be used to record video and sound that you would like to record and make a movie out of.

How can it be used in your intended career or job? The IPad would make it so I could take notes faster and then print them without having to type them over again. Windows Movie Maker I could make videos promoting either products or other departments where I may work. The Flip Camera can make it easier to record what I want to put in the video promoting the product or other departments.

What work will I do before next class? I will practice for the presentation on Monday.

Week 14

What we did today in class was adobe X pro and IPad.

What I learned about the technology I learned that adobe allows you to put stuff on the web so that others cannot make changes they can comment but they cannot make any changes to the document. The IPad I learned could be fun. The only problem with the IPad is that you have to look hard to find certain buttons that on a laptop or regular computer is right in front of you.

How can it be used or is being used in your academic or personal life? Adobe could be helpful with putting my resume out there to future employers so that no one can change any of my information. The IPad could be of use to take notes in class or even record notes for classes so that I could pay more attention.

How can it be used in your intended career or job? Adobe can make it so we can send files to one another. The IPad could record meeting so that I could play them back and know exactly what was said at a meeting.

What work will you complete before next class? I will submit this blog, I will do the prep for next week’s rotation, and I will rewrite my podcast #3 script.

Week 13

Today we used the notebooks, Google docs, open doc, Skype and webcams

What I learned about the technology on the notebooks we used the Google docs they were hard to save on the notebooks to our flash drives, we also used open doc on the notebooks they were easier to use than the Google docs. We did not get the opportunity to do the Skype with the instructor. We are doing it next week with the other group.

How can these be used or is being used in my academic or personal life? Well the open docs I may use more than the Google docs if I did not already have Microsoft word installed on my laptop. I do not see myself going out to buy a notebook when I have a laptop already. I would use the open docs just as I would the regular Microsoft office things. I use Skype when I communicate with my husband.

How can it be used in your intended career or job? Well I may use the open docs to prepare files and documents if Microsoft office is not on any computer that I may use at the job site. If they have a notebook I really do not like using the notebooks I am much happier using my laptop I prefer it over the notebooks. I may use Skype to do meetings when travel is not possible.

What work will you do before the next class? I will post this blog, prep for rotation for next week and do the survey that my group created in class today.

Week 12

Today we used Adobe Photoshop, and the Wacom tablet.

What I learned about the technology was how to layer things in Adobe Photoshop. I used the Wacom tablet to erase the background on one of my pictures that I used in my Decade project.

How can it be used or is being used in your academic or personal life is that I can use Adobe Photoshop for my whole Decade project. I can use the Wacom tablet to get in close to the objects that I want to cut out of the picture.

How can it be used in my intended career or job:  I can use Adobe Photoshop when putting together flyers or something similar to distribute to people.

What work will I do before the next class? I will post this blog, I will do the Photoshop test, I will prepare for week 2’s rotation, and I will finish the commercial for my decade project.

Week 11

Today we covered the Wacom tablet and Adobe placing layers

What I learned about the technology was that the Wacom tablet is just like a mouse. And Adobe placing layers was that you can place layers in adobe so that the other layers are not harmed when you are editing something else.

How can it be used or is being used in my academic or personal life. Well I do not see myself personally using a Wacom Tablet but Adobe can help me create a college of the different photos that I have on my computer.

How can it be used in my intended career or job it can be used in my intended career or job buy making it so I can cut close to pictures to get rid of stuff that I do not want? And Adobe can help me place photos in collages.

What work will I do before next class I will post this blog, get the rocker assignment done and upload it, I will get the computer equipment project done and upload it, I will start to work on my decades project.

Week 10

Today we covered Adobe Photoshop.

What I learned about the technology was that you can edited photo’s further and even shrink their size down farther using Adobe Photoshop. I also learned how to feather a border for a picture.

How can it be used or is being used in my academic or personal life I can use this to fix some of my photo’s that I have on  the computer that need to be shank down in size.

How it can be used in my intended career or job I could you it to fix photo’s for PowerPoint presentations to make the photo’s better in quality or even use it to fix photo’s for advertisements.

What work will I do before next class? I will do  my tweet, I will do lab 1 and 2 for chapter 1 in Adobe Photoshop. I will also post this blog.

Week 9

Today we covered Scanning and Adobe.

What I learned about the technology was that you may have to scan a document more than once to get it right. Adobe I learned about the various buttons on the screen when you start an adobe project.

How can these be used in my academic or personal life scanning I use it to scan various things into the computer. It saves me from having several papers lying around. Adobe I have not really used in either my academic or personal life I could use it though to fix some of my pictures.

How can it be used in my intended career or job I can use scanning to scan something to send to someone else through e-mail or even instant messenger. Adobe I can clean up pictures and make them so that I can use them for reports.,

What work will you do before the next class I will post this blog and find my pictures and famous quote from the 1970s.