Here's a brief outline of the activities we'll be doing today and when we'll be doing them:

• Arrival
• Ground rules and housekeeping
• Create a desktop shortcut to the TIE Network License to Thrill website (File-->Send-->Select shortcut to Desktop)
  
• Register for del.icio.us and a free Google Mail account and related services such as
  • Calendar
  • Documents
  • Pages
    
  • Photos
• Explore examples of advertising techniques that can be adopted by educators for the purpose of increasing engagement in content-specific concepts
• Where and how to find free resources (like the TIE Network's collection of goodies or the Freeloader's Guide over at SEGATech) for creating educational advertisements
• Open Photo
• MorgueFile
• Archive.org
• Image*After
• NOAA Photo Library
• Open Video Project
• American Memory via the Library of Congress
• Uncle Sam's Photos
• Yotophoto
• Kitzu
• Using the GIMP (or GIMPShop)
  
  • Getting started, work environment, tools
  • Impatient? Ready to get started?
  • *Ahem* if you're downloading GIMP--remember to install the GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment before installing and starting the GIMP
  • Click here to download the GIMP
  • Click here to learn more about the GIMP
  • Quickie tutorials--knock yourself out!
    
  • The importance of layers
  • Selection tools
  • Tricks with transparency
  • If possible (that is, if we have extra time)
    
    • Placing images in text (via the GIMP Talk forum)
      
    • Blending in images (also via the GIMP Talk forum)
      
    • Drop shadow
    • Threshold
    • Color changes
    • Quick mask
    • Filters
    • Rendering
    • Tutorials
• Picasa
  
  • Basic fixes
  • Tuning
  • Effects
  • Geotagging
  • Web upload
  • Photo galleries
    
• Picnik
• MyBrochureMaker
• Online graphics generators such as Says-It and Motivator
  
• Creatw wall-sized graphics with Block Posters
  
• How to use Audacity and other resources to generate soundtracks and sound effects for audio presentations, slide shows, and videos
  • Archive.org
  • Freesound Project
  • CCMixter
  • Freeplaymusic.has content that may be used for educational, non-commercial use (limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom, non-broadcast projects)
    
• How to create a short educational advertisement video clip using Microsoft Movie Maker (it comes as built-in component of Windows XP--look in your Programs list)
  
• Impatient (again?)--click here to see how to use Microsoft Movie Maker
  
• Go on, get started using Microsoft Movie Maker
  
• What the heck--here's a link to Microsoft Photo Story, too
  
• Question and answer
• Evaluation
  

-jg