HW updates for Monday, Jan. 31st

Computers 8I/8M: Your first photo edit ("Public Market") is now due, as both classes have had a full period to work on the assignment, plus the first class in which we practiced the selective colouring technique. Just a reminder that you are welcome to experiment with additional photo effects, as long as the final product shows that you have changed the background to black and white, and that you have selectively coloured all of the lettering/clock hands and numbers back on.

Science 7: As we had 7 absences from our class this morning, we used our time to clean our desks and lockers, recycle old papers, tidy up our spaces, and work on homework from our other classes. We have just begun the Particle Theory of Matter, and it made sense to use our time for other projects rather than re-teaching the new concepts when the rest of you return.

IP 20/30: We are in the process of analyzing and editing our preliminary yearbook pages (class photos/individual portrait pages, staff photo page, etc.). We will be continuing with candid pages today. If you have any photos that need to be uploaded, from any grade level, please do so asap so that those pages can start to develop - there are several blank ones at this point.

Band (all levels): Your January practice charts are due by this Friday. Every month I have at least 1 or 2 people panicking on Friday, as they forgot their chart at home. Please hand yours in asap so that you do not have any last-minute panic moments! They can be handed in to me personally or to the basket on my desk starting today. I already have a few, so keep them coming!

Narnia: We are officially 1 week away from our first show! It's definitely "crunch time" but I have faith that we will pull it off. PLEASE memorize your songs if you have not already - we need to focus on our characters rather than our lines, lyrics, harmonies, etc. It's your show - let's present a performance that we are all proud of! :o)

2 completely unrelated musical photos

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend! One of my friends shared this photo with me and I thought it was too ridiculous not to pass on to all of you.

Chew-BACH-a. GET IT?!?!

(Ridiculous, but I still laughed out loud!)

And, in my own personally exciting news, I bought a soprano saxophone yesterday! This expands my collection now to soprano, alto, and bari. The only common one I'm missing is of course tenor, but that may come in time. I'm so excited about this purchase - I'm playing in a sax quartet at Music Festival this year and I've wanted to own my own soprano for a while now. YAY!

(Disclaimer: Any Kenny G jokes will result in immediate failure of your band mark for the 2010-2011 school year.) :op

Career Ed 9 - My Career Brainstorm

Brainstorm and jot down answers for the following categories:

1. Jobs/careers I would LOVE to have:

2. Jobs/careers I would HATE to have:

3. Jobs/careers I think I would be good at:

4. Jobs/careers that interest me, but I don't think I could do (and why?):

Once we get thinking about possible career paths (which, of course, may change several times in the coming years), we will focus the majority of this course on developing our organizational skills, goal setting, and other skills that prospective employers will look for.

The..... clarrotnet?

Check out this cool video I found on YouTube. Perhaps a future band project? :o)

Public Market demo photo

Computers 8 Picnik intro

Hi Computers 8! Here is the order of business for today (and continuing):

1. Begin editing the "PUBLIC MARKET" sample picture from www.picnik.com that I showed you on the "Share Screen" feature. Remember, we are practicing our selective colour painting techniques, which means that we want to change the entire picture to black and white and then paint back on the red lettering by using the circle brush tool. If you try to paint back on the original red and it's not working, chances are you accidentally saved it mid-process and now the computer thinks that portions of your original are black and white. You may have to restart this project.

Please save your work as Last name, First initial, Public Market and submit to the hand-in folder (drop box).

For next class:

2. Choose a picture of a brightly coloured flower from Google image search. Daisies work well for this effect, as there are some great photos out there of high quality close-up images of vibrant daisies. If you would rather choose a different flower, that's ok too, but please choose an artistic photo rather than just a snapshot of a garden. Using selective colouring again, paint back on the most vibrant colours (likely the petals, and depending on the composition of the photo, maybe some green as well). In this instance, often less is more. Once you have finished the selective colouring, use the text adding feature to add the name of the flower pictured (i.e. Daisy, tulip, chrysanthemum, etc.). You may choose the font, colour, size, and positioning of the text, as long as the text is clearly visible. Be creative with your choices - choose a font that complements your photo. Also, remember that you can increase the saturation of colour on the original photo before you change it to black and white so that the vibrance of the colours is more intense against the black and white. Try playing with colour saturation and/or the "Boost," "Orton-ish," or "Lomo-ish" effects. You can also alter the percentage/fade of the effect by using the sliding bars if it's too strong (or not strong enough).

3. If you have any time left over, choose another photo from Google image search to edit using the same techniques (selective colour effect painting, and text addition).

****** MAKE SURE YOU ARE SAVING YOUR WORK!!!! You will hand in these photos to my drop box when you are finished, so please label them with your name as well. The easiest way to submit your work may be to save the file to your desktop and then drag and drop from there to my drop box. ******

4. Bring a favourite picture from home or from Google image search for next class. If you want a photo that you have on facebook, you must put it on a USB before class, as we will not be signing into our facebook accounts to retrieve pictures.

Food for thought as you go boldly into midterms week...

Sending everyone plenty of good thoughts for this week's exams. Now is the time for your hard work to pay off!

As Sr. Mary would say, you are celebrating your learning!