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Portable apps are wonderful!

If you want to be independent of the IT culture that you are visiting then you might like to try Portable Apps. These are nothing to do with mobile phones! But they are a suite of your commonly used programs which you carry around on a USB stick. The prgrams work entirely on the stick and any files produced can also be stored on the stick. So if you want an image editing program and the place you are visiting does not have one then simply use your image editing program in the Portable Apps package on your USB stick. The suite shown in the screencast has been tailored for the UnderstandIT project but you can download a standard suite from the Portable Apps site or make your own custom collection. The screencast shows you how to get the Portable Apps onto your stick and then how to use them.

How to post audio to Posterous

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In this minute and a half recording I explain in 45 seconds or so how to use posterous to share your audio recording.
 
Please add the link to your posterous site as a comment to this post so that we can all hear what you have done.
 
Music: Earth by David Schomburg from the album Quiet Life Vol 1

The AIDA Model - How far can it go?

Thursday September 3

 

Housekeeping

Tidy, fresh air and no food

Registration

Give out books

Fronter tour – be ready that I ask you to use external tools ‘in the cloud’

  • Avatars
  • Forum
  • Fælles document – shows Fronter is web 1.0 rather than web 2.0 so we’ll have to use something else
  • Dokument – How to sheets and videos (please contribute also)
  • Aflevering

Email problems? Get the DJES email to go to your private mail box – how? Depends on your email. Eg Gmail

H-drive – what does yours look like?

 

About learning

It’s about making new connections, the more you do the more connections you make and the stronger these connections become.

 

Eg. Group work mindmaps show pdf on paper

  • Activity (murder mystery)
  • Discussion
  • Summary
  • (external research)
  • Mindmap

 

Activities in Komm/IT are not optional unless it says optional (eg multi-tasking forum)

 

Communication theory

 

  • Put the 4 components of the AIDA model into the right order.
  • PPT
  • Identify the 4 parts on the posters if you can
  • Homework: When you give in work to a GTS teacher, are you using the AIDA model? Does your Fronter avatar help you give the right impression to your HTX teachers? Would the AIDA model help you to present your work effectively to your teachers? Read p. 35-36 in your books.

Remember that those who post first have the easiest job! Those who come later will be asked to research what others have said about the topic and those who post later still will be asked to make a summary and then a mindmap.

 

World statistics

In HTX you work a lot with numbers.

Show some examples that you have produced. Do they follow the AIDA model?

 

Homework:

Explore at least two of the following which are either showing the statistics you were asked to find or which are tools to show similar statistics.

 

In the forum World Statistics explain which you thought was the most effective and why. Can you apply the AIDA model to the state of the world?

 

About grades

Fill in the can-do checklist

In the interests of openness: Minimum for 7 is that you try everything I ask you to do.

 

Resources

Forum on AIDA and school work and avatars

Forum on world statistics

Fallback Internet location http://foxdenuk.posterous.com

http://tinychat.com

The state of the world

This is a challenge which must be completed before I see you again on September 3.

Find and present the following statistics to show the state of the world today.
1.       Distribution of population between Asia, Europe, N. America, S America and the Caribbean, Africa, Oceania
2.       How many males and females there are.
3.       How many live in urban areas.
4.       How many are disabled
5.       Distribution in numbers following different religions including Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, non-religious and other religions.
6.       How many have access to basic sanitation (kloaksystemer)
7.       How many have access to clean water .
8.       How the world’s wealth is distributed.
9.       How many are hungry or malnourished.
10.   How many can read.
11.   How many have been educated more than 6 years.
12.   How many have a computer.
13.   How many have access to the Internet.
14.   How many have AIDS/HIV.
15.   How much is spent on military activities.
16.   How much is spent on development aid.
17.   How many have a bed, wardrobe and a room to sleep in.
18.   How many have a bank account.
19.   How many live on $1 a day or less, $2 a day or less.
Decide the best way to find and present this information. Try and give suggestions why someone would want to present these statistics.

 

How to use the printscreen button to copy your screen

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This is a 2-minute video showing you how to use the printscreen button on your computer to copy what is on your screen if nothing else works.
 
By the way, you can also press Alt/Print screen if you just want to copy the active window instead of the whole screen.
By the way again, you can paste (sæt ind) the image into other programs such as Word or Photoshop.

Re-sizing digital image files

Re-sizing an image

 

Challenge: Add an avatar image to your profile in Fronter which fits the required dimensions of 73 x 110

 

  1. Using Photoshop

1.1  File/Open – Choose a picture from your computer

1.2  Image/image size – to see how close you are to the required dimensions (73 width, 110 height in pixels)

1.3  Use crop tool to get the right proportions (on left hand menu)

1.4  Use image/image size again to check.

1.5  File/save as in jpg format (PS reduces the file size automatically)

1.6  Upload to Fronter (click on your name)

 

  1. Using online image editor eg Fotoflexer, pixlr, picnik (no need to register)

2.1  Upload – Choose a picture from your computer (‘edit from my computer’)

2.2   Click on ‘resize’ to see current size. Eg 345 x 407 To get 345 down to 73 for Fronter you need to reduce by about 80%, so tick percentage and try 30%. This gives 104 x 122. Be careful, you might lose too much quality.

2.3   Now use crop tool so that the picture is less wide.

2.4 Click on ‘resize’ to check you are close to 73 x 110

2.5 Save (very important if you are not registered). The file size wil be automatically reduced.

2.6 Upload to Fronter

 

  1. Using downloadable program eg GIMP, Paint.net

3.1  File/Open

3.2  Billede/skaler billede (use baggrund at bottom to make bigger if the picture becomes too small) to get the picture close to the required height of 110

3.3  Værktøjer/transformerings værktøjer/beskær to get the proportions to 73 x 110

3.4  Check image size again through Billede/skaler billede

3.5  Save as jpg (Be careful that the file size is not too big, GIMP does not reduce it automatically)

3.6  Upload to Fronter

 

Additional challenges

  1. Prepare these instructions in Danish including your own screenshots.
  2. What is the difference between bmp, gif, jpg, png and tiff image file formats?

Group work principles

Good group work principles

You made the following points in the forum:

 

  • Leader role (ensures people talk or could talk too much)
  • Having fun is important
  • Finding right balance between fun and work
  • Other roles? Eg writer...
  • Better work when you know each other
  • Plan for what to do when a group member is missing
  • Copying good practice (remember to acknowledge/attribute)
  • Physical layout
  • Responding to other forum contributions
  • Use all available resources (or choose carefully if there are too many)
  • Work process eg iterative
  • Make a work plan

 

Use a tool like Mindomo at www.mindomo.com  or www.text2mindmap.com to make a visual plan of these points. Eg maybe use headings people, environment, resources, work processes

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