Objectives for 2008

1. Insert hperlink into a document.
2. Abobe Photoshop Elements.
3. Digital camera use.
4. Email: attachments, cc.
5. Manipulation of all objects in KidPix.
6. Kahoots- animation program.
7. Movie Maker.
8. Publisher.
9. Google advanced search.
10. Google Maps: plus Google Maps Pedmeter.
11. Google Earth.
12. HTML.
13. Blogs: explanation and participation (leaving a comment.)
14. Power Point presentations.
15. Screenprint- how to take one and use it.
16. Computer shortcuts.
17. Skype.

How To Make A Newsletter In Publisher

1. Find the Microsoft Publisher icon and click on it.

2. Go to the scroll bar and find newsletters and click on the one you like.

3. Click on the newsletter title and type in what you want your newsletter to be called.

4. To put in a picture from your pictures you need to click on insert, picture and from file.

5. If you wanted you could also write a story. Or you could write about it yourself.

6. If you wanted you could just write things about you like your favourite book or movie.

How to put a youtube on your blog

First find your youtube. On the right go to where it says Embed and click to the right of that where it says Customise.

Click on Don't include related videos and click on a colour. Click on Show Border. Go back up to where it says Embed, click on the box once then press Ctrl and C.

Now go to your blog and create a new post. Click on Edit HTML then press Ctrl and V.



Then press Publish Post. There you go!

Give your photo a warm glow

Double click on picture to enlarge it.

Give your photo a warm glow by using Digital Scrapbook Place designer Nicole Young's tutorial using PSE6. This is Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.

There are 4 steps.

Step 1 is to pick a photo.

Step 2 is to go up to layer and click on duplicate the layer, so that you have two duplicated photos on top of each other.

Step 3 (on the top layer) go up to Filter and down to Blur, then go across to Gaussian Blur and set it to 30. It will make your photo look very blurry.

Step 4 is to turn the blend mode (look on your layer palette on the right where it says Normal, to find your blend modes ) to Overlay or Hard Light (and Nicole suggests to scroll through them to create some unique effects). I personally use Soft Light and then drop the opacity if I need to.

Step 5 is to go up to Layers again and click on Merge visible layers.

You're done!

Treasure Hunt

1. Look up cat in Google- how many entries are there?


2. If you go to Google images and type in 'fuzzy caterpillar', what is the third image?


3. Use Google to find the correct spelling for this word - is it collum heater or column heater?


4. Convert 36 degrees Celsius to degrees Fahrenheit.


5. Find a musical instrument that starts with N.


6. Who wrote the poem that starts: The black cat yawns


7. What icon is used as a cookie cutter tool in PSE6?


8. Name two of Shakespeare's history plays.


9. What date was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen written?


10. What are the 4 most popular colour of Siamese cats?

Typing Teacher

Try this typing teacher!

Tint a picture using PSE6

Use this tutorial from DSP to tint a picture. It explains how to make it black and white, then to lift some of the original color back in.

Computing Test

Fun Computer Test:

1. What is an ISP?

2. What is your ISP?

3. What is your internet server?

4. Name three things that can be connected to your computer.

5. In a HTML on a blog, what do write to make a new window with a hyperlink?

6. What is a hyperlink?

7. Name three e-mail providers.

8. Name three different types of Microsoft Windows programs, for example, Word.

9. Give 2 examples of search engines.

10. What is the name of our homework blog?

11. How much RAM does it take to run Vista successfully?

12. What anti-virus program do you have on your computer?

13. Who invented Microsoft Windows?

14. What do the initials PSE6 stand for?

15. What two keys do you press to get a new page in Word?

16. How do you move a document from one computer to another?

17. How do you change the colour of a piece of writing?

18. What does Ctrl A do?

19. What does F5 do?

20. What does F11 do?

21. What is your operating system?

22. What is a USB?

23. What is a stat counter?

24. In IP address, what does IP stand for?

PSE6 Andy Warhol's Marilyn

1. Open PSE 6.
2. Google Andy Warhol images.
3. Go to page 4 to find the picture of the 4 Marilyn Monroes.
4. Save the large picture of Marilyn that you will find in the tutorial.
5. To do this right click on it and save it to your My Pictures.
6. Go to PSE 6.
7. Go to file, new, blank file.
8. Width and height 2400 pixels and click ok.
9. Go up to file then open the Marilyn picture.
10. Drag it down to your new grey and white checked picture.
11. Make it fit on one quarter of the screen by dragging corners.
12. Over to the right of your screen in Layers, right click on the picture of Marilyn which is layer 2.
13. Go up to duplicate layer. Press OK.
14. Go back to your main screen and drag the layer across to the right. Do this twice more so that you have four Marilyn pictures.
15. Make the four pictures fit into a square.
16. Crop around them to make them into a square.
17. Click on the move tool then click on the first Marilyn picture.
18. Use Ctrl + U to change the colour (or you can use the filter).
19. Do this for all four pictures.

Here is Trixie's treasure

An example of digital scrapbooking.