We are a class of Prep students, sharing all that's happening in our classroom. This blog was started by the first group of Gems, a Year One class back in 2007. We, the 2012 Gems are proud to continue on the conversation. You can read, watch and listen as we share our learning journey - a journey where we 'learn to blog' and 'blog to learn'. Please visit regularly to see what's new and join in the conversation - we'd love for you to be part of our learning.

Monday, 12 November 2007

PLAYING WITH NEW APPLICATIONS

Before we can start bringing our Superhero stories to life in Comic Life, we actually have to have some pictures!
So we have been 'playing' with two applications that will help us create great pictures.
They are PHOTOBOOTH and ART RAGE.
We've spent A LOT of time 'playing' with them.
That's how we've learnt what they can do and how to use them.

Our Macbooks have an inbuilt camera, so we can use PHOTOBOOTH to give our pictures 'special effects' like

comic book...

light tunnel....





and thermal camera.


There's heaps more effects. Taking pictures on PHOTOBOOTH is so much FUN!!

It's PERFECT for SUPERHERO and VILLIAN pictures.


ARTRAGE is a paint program that lets you create 'paintings' and 'drawings' that look like 'real 'paintings' and 'drawings'.

Here's one Mrs M did of a 'superhero'
It's really hard 'drawing' and 'painting' with a mouse but we're getting better.
You can get a FREE starter version of ARTRAGE.
Just click on the icon to go to the download page.
Email your ARTRAGE artwork to 1mgems@gmail.com
We'd love to see your creations!

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