LAB 2 --- PART 1

INTERACTIVES:

Task: Explore museum interactive sites and takes notes (in your blog) on what you see

Some Science Centers and Museums with example Educational Interactives

http://nanozone.org/

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/kids/

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/PM.cgi?LM=Games&LANG=English&AP=vmc_search&scope=Games

http://www.mbayaq.org/lc/activities/default.asp

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/fun-games/index.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/online.html

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explotime.html (note authors on Adventures in Dry Creek module)

Play with some interactives. You are welcome to search for other interactives. Interactives (as opposed to straight web pages) are defined as requiring some form of user input besides clicking hyperlink text or pictures to move forward. Interactives may also involve use of animation, video, audio. For each interactive you spend time with, write down whether there were text, images, animation, video, audio, or other unclassifiable multimedia elements. Did the intereactive require a plug-in? Do you know which one? Flash? Shockwave? What are these "plug-ins"? Note which ones you played with, the types of media (image, animation, audio, etc.) presented, and what software you needed to play them in your blog.

LAB 2 --- PART 2

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY/COMPACT FLASH CARDS/COMMUNITY IMAGE DATABASES/IMAGE EDITING 1

Tasks: Take class photograph using digital camera, transfer files to computer, begin image editing. Play with online community photograph databases like Flickr.

Hardware: digital camera, compact flash card, compact flash card reader, computer

Software: Photoshop (intro)

Websites: http://www.flickr.com/

Add tags to the photograph

Add comments to the photograph

Add a map location to the photograph

Add a class photograph to our homepage on GooglePages