Ms. Mordoh's Period 7/8 : March 2013

Friday, March 22, 2013

Your Second Blog

For the rest of the semester, you are going to be working on a second blog. This blog will be about a subject you are interested in. Your first assignment is to choose a topic for your blog, give your new blog a name that has to do with the topic, and invent four information pages to add to this blog.

My new blog will be about...wait for it...the Dodgers! Here is how I would do it:

Blog Topic - Dodgers Baseball
Blog Name - True Blue Dodger Fan

Pages:

Dodger Stadium
The Players
Championships
Spring Training

Be sure to pick a topic you are really interested in because you will be writing about it for 8 posts. Please get your blog set up and designed while you are on Spring Break.

Spring Break Video Edit

Your Spring Break homework is to edit the Similes and Metaphors video you made in the 7th grade. In class we uploaded your video to your Google Drive... I'm sorry, I couldn't get the screencast video to work, but here is how you edit your video:

Download your video from Drive to your desktop.
Open YouTube and create an account.
Choose the Upload button next to the search window.
Upload your video.
Choose Video Manager.
Choose to edit your video.
From this screen you can change the name of your video and write a description.
Choose Enhancements at the top of the page.
From this screen you can trim any dead or boring time from the beginning and/or end of the video, just use the scissors that say "Trim."
On this screen use Autofix and Stabilize to improve the quality of your video.
Save and take a break.
After it has "processed," Try the Video Editor.
This is where you can add a "CC" to put your title on, add a Transition to go from your title page to your video, add your video, Transition again to a "CC" to put your credits on. Suggested Credits would be Credits, Written by, Acted by, and you must have Edited by...

If you have any questions, email me at andrea.mordoh@gmail.com, and I will answer as soon as I can. Have fun!