Building Our Capacities to Write in the Public Interest

Agenda for

3/3/09

&

3/5/09

Working as OrganizationFor the remainder of the semester we will be

following work patterns typical of workplaces and organizations:

Teams tasked to solve problems you’ve identified

Class time used to build your capacities and to facilitate group work

Status reports offered every THGroup reports to the class will be made

later this semester in presentations.

Working as OrganizationFor the remainder of the semester we will be following

work patterns typical of workplaces and organizations:

None of us will be working on same schedule of due dates

Your abilities to tell me what you need as learners/writers are crucial (hence the survey!)

Each group must: create a schedule of work, due dates, and reviews needed in the proposal

Proposals

Please see the ppt. on proposals that has been loaded to the 331 website under the assignments section

Schedule• Due 3/3 Class Capacity Building /Peer review

• Due 3/5 Capacity Needs paper due/ Proposals workshop in class

• T: 3/17 Proposals due/ C N A due/ Photoshop intro

• TH: 3/19 Photoshop intro

• T: 3/24 Photoshop adv

• TH: 3/26 Class cancelled: Instructor presenting @ Duke University

• T: 3/31 Intro to video editing

• TH: 4/2 Intro to video editting

• 4/7: Group Updates to class

• 4/9: Intro to video editting

• T: 4/14 & 16 Video advanced and export

• T: 4/21 Camtasia intro

• TH: 4/23 Presentations

• T: 4/28 Presentations/ Portfolio workshop

• TH: 4/30 Portfolios/ Evals

Instructions for C N A ReviewPeer Review for the Capacity Statements1. List group’s name and reviewer group2. Each group download the working report

from Angel, open in word, and track changes.

3. Cut and paste the questions in the notes below into the document you’re reviewing.

4. Submit these comments as a group--coordinating your comments onto one document.

5. Upload your group’s comments to Angel

Survey Results

Survey Results

Photoshop 1

• Matching file format to delivery mode

• Image sizing

• Introduction to layers/history

• Introduction to text

• Playing with text

• Transforming data/images

• Trimming pixels

Photoshop 1: File format

Matching file format to delivery mode

PSD = photoshop file (only up to 2G)

TIFF = High res, data saturated image for printing, down stream remediation (graphic becomes logo), and archiving. Only good to 4G/file.

PDF = portable document file for printing

Photoshop 1: File formatMatching file format to delivery modeJPG = Joint Photographic Experts Group

(JPEG) format is commonly used to display photographs and other continuous-tone images in hypertext markup language

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is the file format commonly used to display indexed-color graphics and images in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

Photoshop 1: File formatMatching file format to delivery modePICT = PICT format is used in Mac OS graphics and

page-layout applications as an intermediary file format for transferring images between applications.

PNG = Developed as a patent-free alternative to GIF, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used for lossless compression and for display of images on the web.

Photoshop 1: Image SizingMatching file format to delivery mode

File>New> will use presets in your chache to image sizeCan be reset to your needs

pixels: onlinepoints: data points/square inchinches: print/paper sizepresets: for various deliverables.

Photoshop 1: Layers Make sure you can see layers pallete

toolbar>windows>history and layersLayers allow you to build your image in separate

sections as though it were a collage. Each layer is manipulable.

Make sure to preserve transparency for extporting.Hisotry allows you to see the moves you’ve made and

quickly step backward if you’ve made a mistake.

Photoshop 1: TextAll text comes with a new layerMake sure you name your layers to correspond to

content of layer for easy of transfer to colleaguesAll text can be manipulated in the tool specification barSelect font, size, style, color of text from the spec bar

Photoshop 1: TextOnce you’ve written text, click the move tool to exit the

text tool.Next go to edit>free transformThe Tranform tool allows you to warp, wrap, rotate and

skew your layer (be it text or image).

Note: when you transform these, you’ll likely need to adjust canvas size: increase the pixels to contain your text: got to move tool>image>trim>transparent pixels.