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Final projects are due on June 19.

Students are continuing to work on all of their final projects.  Video team one is story boarding and  scripting a short video on bullying. Team two is story boarding and scripting a video on Kingwood Middle School sports.  Team three is working on a short video about Team Vista.  When students are not working on their video projects they will be continuing to work on individual PowerPoint projects,  Quiz Lab quizzes, Scavenger Hunt 3, one month budget, and a rewrite of “Joe’s”:.

Students will be working on their final projects.  Video groups are working on creating a proposal for their videos.  Once the proposal is finished, the students in each group must pitch their idea.  If the proposal is accepted each group will script and storyboard their video.  If a student is not needed in their video group, she or he will be working on a PowerPoint slide show, quizlabs, scavenger hunt 3, one month budget, and rewriting “Joe’s:.

On Monday May 19th, the students had another Internet scavenger hunt. On Tuesday, we will start our final projects. These will include group video projects, a PowerPoint presentation, four vocabulary quizzes on Quizlab.com, Scavenger Hunt 3, a one month budget, and retyping of Joe’s Used Battle Ships. The video project will require the students to break up into movie making teams. Each team will submit a computer generated proposal describing their project. Each team will create a video that will help incoming sixth graders become acquainted with KRMS. Once the proposal has been written and accepted, The students will be required to script, story board, shoot, edit, and create music for their video.

Due date for the brochures is Wednesday May 14. On Thursday and Friday we will be doing another Internet Scavenger Hunt. Next week we will begin working on the final projects which will include a Power Point presentation and a video production.

During our last Saturday class, the students finished up their Photoshop collages.  On Monday we created a template for a brochure in Microsoft Publisher.  The students have saved their work on their individual computers, on the local server and on think.com.  For the next 5 days students will research a state or a country and create a travel brochure.

We are back from vacation. This week the students are working on digital photographic collages in Adobe PhotoShop. Don’t forget that we have Saturday classes this week to make up for our snow days.

This week the students will finish their slide shows in Microsoft Photo Story 3. They have been taking more digital pictures and are learning how to make collages from multiple images in Adobe Photoshop. They are also learning how to edit and manipulate photographs in Photoshop.

This week students will be learning some of the basic rules of photo composition, in particular the rule of thirds.  Then the class will create individual  photographic slide shows in Microsoft Photo Story 3.  Once the slide shows have been completed, students will create photographic collages in Adobe Photoshop.

Students started the week by taking a series of quizzes on www.funbrain.com. These are designed to help students become familiar with computer technology terms and are self correcting. Some students are finishing their personal timelines. Others are now taking digital photos that will be manipulated in Adobe Photoshop and then included in a Microsoft Photo Story 3 slide show.