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__**Media Production Sites**__

The rule of thirds is a helpful piece of information. I have a friend (who teaches computer graphics and took our wedding pictures) that is always talking about this "rule". Now that I know how it affects the types of pictures that you take, I will be more aware of using it.

My favorite link was the Production Course 101. I loved watching all of the editing advice. In my mind, editing was always taking out the bad parts - not the ability to sequence shots. I was also amazed to find out that news castors use cutaways from separate shots to get the right effect or emotion from a scene. For instance, one of the clips showed a shot of a touchdown in a football game. Then, it cut - away to the band director that was jumping up and down with excitement. These two events were not related. The band director jumping up and down was shot at the beginning of the game, a half hour prior to the touchdown. Interestingly, it is okay to do these types of shots, if you are not trying to change the overall perception of what really happened.

__**Myths and Misconceptions**__

1. Why do seasons occur? The earth gets warmer in the summer and colder in the winter due to the tilting of the earth's axis as it moves around the sun. During the summer, the earth tilts towards the sun. During the winter, the earth tilts away from the sun. http://kidscientist.com/5/why-do-seasons-happen/ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_the_seasons_happen

2. Rosa Parks was an advocate for black rights. The slide show indicates that she was arrested for sitting in the middle of the bus. However, in other sources I found on the internet, she sat in the designated "black" section of the bus, which was the back of the bus. However, there was a rule stating that blacks must move even farther back if there were more white people than "white" seats. Rosa did not feel like accommodating the white people and moving back an extra seat, so she was arrested. http://americanhistory.mrdonn.org/RosaParks.html

3. "The color of blood always remains within the red spectrum. (bright red when oxygenated, and a deep red-maroon color when deoxygenated) There is no time in the human body when blood is ever blue." https://www.msu.edu/~kalinkat/professionalpages/TechMatrixMaterials/documentarybloodmisconceptions.htm

4. I would delete this e-mail without forwarding it. It looks like a hoax and it doesn't really say what the petition will do if it reaches 5,000 signatures. In a class last term, ECOMP7100, we had to research several e-mail messages to determine if they were worms, viruses, trojan horses, or just hoaxes. We didn't ever get info on snopes.com, though. This is a great site! I particularly liked how I just typed "MADD e-mail" into the search box, and it brought the incriminating e-mail message right up - along with information on how to properly handle it.

Truncating the URL of a website is one particularly helpful way to see if the digital media being portrayed is coming from a reliable, credible source. Students need to know that everything that they read on the Web should not be taken for the Gospel. It is our job as educators to show them how to research the information sources to determine their credibility. I really think that pictures and videos that have been edited are the trickiest to spot. . ..

__**MYTH**__ During an earlier Lesley class, we were instructed to go to this site about robots. Really, if you did a WWW search for robots, this is a site that might come up - http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html. It shows a lot of older pictures (1800s era) with robots pulling wagons, etc. However, if you truncate the URL, you find that the home of this "robots" site is http://www.bigredhair.com. All you really need to do is look at this website to know that their information on robots is not something you could document in a report. It shows a picture of girl with very large red hair and is basically a "spoof" site for a couple of people that are into picture editing and have great photo-shop abilities.

In this promotional brochure, I did not take all of the pictures. I did, however, do all of the editing on Adobe PhotoShop. It is a program that is only on my laptop, so I had to do a bit of transferring from computers.
 * __Photo Editing Assignment:__ TASK 24, 25, and 26.**

//**TASK 25 - Cropping & TASK 26 - Rotating:**// I cropped the tall rectangular picture on the top of page 3 to show just my husband and I. Originally, it was a picture of the whole band ( a bass player and a banjo player were cut out). I rotated this picture, too, as you can see. On page 2, I cropped the picture of my husband playing the guitar. This was at a flat picking contest and I cut out the person who was accompanying him and much of the background to get a closeup. //**TASK 24 - Re-sizing:**// The one picture that I did not do such a great job with is the one on page 3 where we are standing by the tree. I did re-size this and I didn't keep the proportions correct when I stretched it out - we look a bit taller and skinnier than we really are. . . . I did re-size many of the pictures to fit them in this brochure, though. Mainly from bigger to smaller size.

I am thinking of changing my key assignment to make a promotional photo story of my husband and I playing together. We have been thinking of hiring someone to do it, and I think that I can do it myself. I really would like to use the photo story tools in my classroom, too, and I am positive I will. However, things are so busy at the end of the year, that I don't think that I want to hurry to try and get it done. Next week, we have P/T conferences and I am slammed with 52 conferences to do. It will be a change of pace to do a project that is more on a personal level.