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Following our Pivot Animator assignment to create a storyline in which the main character has to interact with the image's surroundings in a way that involves meeting obstacles and overcoming them (or being overcome by them), One of our students made this outstanding version she calls
"Waterfall - Fail".

Using Celtx to Create a Podcast Storyboard

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Celtx should already be installed on your lab computer, and you can download a free desktop version for use at home here.

The purpose of Celtx is to organize and automatically format a script or storyboard for a presentation, play, radio show, podcast, etc.  It is very good at this once you get comfortable with its workflow.  We'll go over the basics in class.

For the state podcast you're going to be finishing later, write your script into the Storyboard section of Celtx. Split up the sentences you've written into different shots to go with different pictures. You should have a different picture for every different detail you mention in your script. Don't start collecting your pictures until you've entered your sentences into Celtx.

  • Finish script
  • Copy sentences into different shots in Celtx storyboard
  • Organize the sequence, moving from general topics to specific topics
  • Start looking for pictures to fit what you've written
  • Place pictures into the storyboard image holders
  • Make sure your picture goes with what you're saying in it's connected box

So, after you have finished your script and entered all your sentences into the storyboard, if you haven't already done so, you should organize your podcast by starting with a "big picture" of your state - a map image is a good idea. This shows where your state is located in the country, and, if you haven't done so already, perhaps you can talk about which states are on your state's borders.

After that, organize your statements about other things in the state in general, such as the state flag, the state bird, and so on. You should  be able to use a picture of each of these things you mention. If you talk about the main products of the state, or its geography, or other things it's famous for (in general) just be sure that these are things that you can show in a picture, and that you include the picture as you speak about it.

Later, you should begin getting more specific about your state, such as talking about specific cities instead of the state as a whole.  Make sure you keep your talk focused on things that make your state interesting.

Keep your organization of your podcast clear - Don't include general things about the state when you're talking about a city, and don't include things about a single city when you're talking about the state.

It's important that you have the right picture showing on the screen when you talk about it, so make sure your storyboard is accurately organized. Choose pictures that clearly show what you're talking about.

When you have fully organized your storyboard with text and images, submit it below.


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Palette
Here's how your final Color Palette should look except for the three boxes on the upper right row.
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It's time to master the keyboard. You have two goals in front of you:
  1. Know where every key is located and which finger is supposed to press it;
  2. Be able to type without looking at the keys.

To do this, you're going to have to memorize the key positions on a standard QWERTY keyboard and then practice moving your fingers from their resting position ("Home Position") to the key you want to type. That's really all that learning to Touch Type entails. You have to keep in mind, though, that being able to do it without looking at the keys is the only thing that matters. In other words, ACCURACY is far more important than SPEED.

We will begin with drills to help you learn where the keys are.  We've done some of this before, but now we're doing it in earnest. Your first drill, for example, is simply to practice returning your hands to the Home Position whenever you use a keyboard. Everything builds from this one skill, so practice it well and make it a Good Habit. Later on, you will also use a typing program I like that helps you practice finding the keys with your fingers and not your eyes - more Good Habits.

You will need to demonstrate progress, and to maintain a level of accuracy that is no less than 90%. Your final test will be a timed test to see how accurately you can type a passage without looking at the keys.

Explore.

Human vs. Technological Vision-
The Ability to "See"

The word RESOLUTION is a concept that you will encounter whenever talking about visual technologies. I want you to understand it from a general perspective that the higher the resolution, the more detailed the image can be - but also recognizing that the higher the resolution, the larger the image file will probably be.

Resolution uses several units of measure, and all have value within their own contexts. DOTS-PER-INCH is a measurement usually reserved for printing technology and printed images. PIXELS-PER-INCH is a measurement used for camera views and photographic images, and LINES-PER-INCH is often used to describe the height of a visual display, such as a TV or theater screen. These are exact measurements of the smallest image elements, and can generally be thought of in terms of the size (thickness) of the dots or pixels or lines lined up side by side or stacked up within an inch. The larger the number of elements per inch, the smaller the size (thickness) of each element - you can cram more small elements than large elements into the same space.

The problem is that, at some point, your eyes and brain simply don't care how high the resolution is. Your experience tells you that it's basically "close enough" because the brain "knows" what it is seeing...but some day, visual devices are going to exceed the capability of the eye and brain, and when they do, the world will get even stranger - because how will you be able to see what is real compared to what is merely a picture?
Will we think that a real tree is less interesting than a picture of that tree?

Newer technologies often advertise their new levels of resolution compared to what was available before. You now have a little more information to help you decide if that higher resolution is worth buying.

Often, you also hear another set of numbers, such as 3.1 megapixels. This is not so much a resolution as simply a count of the pixels that are found in a rectangular area. The pixels can be of different sizes and shapes, which alters the final meaning of resolution. 

Think of it this way - imagine you're looking at the distant landscape through a window screen.  The screen is made of threads going horizontally and vertically. You can see the far off view through the evenly-spaced openings between the threads. If you count the number of openings you're looking through in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, say 2048 holes wide and 1536 holes tall, you could multiply those two numbers and get 3,145,728 holes altogether, which is roughly 3.1 million. If we call those openings pixels, we'd have over 3.1 million pixels, which can be shortened to megapixels (because mega is the prefix for a million, remember?)

So, the pixel count is usually about how many separate things can be seen in one view - in a 3.1 megapixel image, the camera senses over 3 million separate zones and puts them together to make a picture. An 8 megapixel camera would see over 8 million separate areas of the picture.

Another phrase you hear is aspect ratio. This is a comparison of the number of units of width vs. the number of units of height. A 4:3 aspect ratio is 4 units wide by 3 units high. If the units are 100 pixels, a 4:3 aspect ratio is 400 pixels by 300 pixels. If the units are 400 pixels, then a 4:3 ratio is 1600 pixels by 1200 pixels.  These are usually written 400 x 300, and 1600 x 1200 pixels. even though they have a different number of pixels, they have the same 4:3 aspect ratios.

LOOK AT: Megapixel Overview Chart

READ:  The Eye and the Camera and
            The Camera vs. The Human Eye

ANSWER THIS: What aspect ratio is 2048 x 1536 pixels?

ANSWER THIS: Can you calculate how much better the human eye is than the best cameras? (IF YOU SEE AN OUTSIDE LINK IN AN ARTICLE, YOU MAY NEED TO FOLLOW IT.)
and
ANSWER THIS: What is the most obvious difference between a photographic camera and the human eye (besides binocular vision)?

Type your answers on a single sheet with your name, and submit them above (on the left).

GEEK JOKE: There are 10 kinds of people in the world -
                       - those who get binary, and those who don't.

COLLECT

Using Hexadecimal Values to Make a Color Palette

Create the Color Palette shown in the picture below (on the left).

To put the correct colors into each box using Fill, convert the RGB hexadecimal pairs into decimal values and enter them into the appropriate Red-Green-Blue field as needed. Remember that the digit in the left column of the hex pair is multiplied by 16 and then added to the digit in the right column of the pair.

Example: FF = (F x 16) + F, and since we now know that F in hex is the same as 15, we would change the values above this way:
               FF = (15 x 16) + 15
               FF = (240)      + 15
               FF = 255, which is the decimal value you would enter into the Fill box.

You can look on the right side of the image to the left and see some of the common decimal values used in the hex color numbers.

When you have finished everything but the top three boxes, show me your palette, so I can check off your progress.  Then, go to this site and choose three color names you like that have not already been used on the palette. Be sure to add their names in the same way they appear in the other boxes, and to add their hex color values below each box.

EXPLORE

How Do We Grasp the Biggest Numbers?

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If you could stack millions of pennies in nice neat stacks, how much space would you need?

For example, if you stacked pennies in the space of 12 inches by 12 inches by 12 inches (a cubic foot), you would need a little over 49,000 pennies to do it.

Take a look here to see what even bigger numbers of pennies would look like - the MegaPenny Project

View Class of 2015's Fifth Grade Podcasts here

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