In Class Thur Sept 27th

Check out video

Photoshop
--- Layers
----- Mode
----- Opacity
----- Fill
----- Lock
----- Moving Layers

work on project

Donkey Kong Made with Legos

In Class Tue Sept 25th

*Image Qualities

Image Color manipulation tools
Color correction
--- Levels
--- Curves
--- Hue / Saturation
--- Histograms

Flatten Image

work on project
Due on Thursday the 27th

Digital intervention

Thousands of hyphens perish as English marches on

By Simon Rabinovitch Fri Sep 21, 10:57 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.

And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby).

The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.

"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.

Another factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words.

"Printed writing is very much design-led these days in adverts and Web sites, and people feel that hyphens mess up the look of a nice bit of typography," he said. "The hyphen is seen as messy looking and old-fashioned."

The team that compiled the Shorter OED, a two-volume tome despite its name, only committed the grammatical amputations after exhaustive research.

"The whole process of changing the spelling of words in the dictionary is all based on our analysis of evidence of language, it's not just what we think looks better," Stevenson said.

Researchers examined a corpus of more than 2 billion words, consisting of full sentences that appeared in newspapers, books, Web sites and blogs from 2000 onwards.

For the most part, the dictionary dropped hyphens from compound nouns, which were unified in a single word (e.g. pigeonhole) or split into two (e.g. test tube).

But hyphens have not lost their place altogether. The Shorter OED editor commended their first-rate service rendered to English in the form of compound adjectives, much like the one in the middle of this sentence.

"There are places where a hyphen is necessary," Stevenson said. "Because you can certainly start to get real ambiguity."

Twenty-odd people came to the party, he said. Or was it twenty odd people?

Some of the 16,000 hyphenation changes in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, sixth edition:

Formerly hyphenated words split in two:

fig leaf

hobby horse

ice cream

pin money

pot belly

test tube

water bed

Formerly hyphenated words unified in one:

bumblebee

chickpea

crybaby

leapfrog

logjam

lowlife

pigeonhole

touchline

waterborne

kids and digital media

In Class Thur Sept 20th

Photoshop Selection tools
--- Marquee
--- Lasso
--- Crop
--- Magic Wand
-- Move
*Appropraition & Culture Recycling in Digital Media

--- Dodge / Burn
--- Blur / Sharpen

--- Eyedropper and color picking

--- Mode

In Class Tue Sept 18th

Intro to Photoshop 7 day 2
-Photoshop Overview
History / Undo function
* File Types
Zoom / Hand tools
Image size / Canvas size
* Digital Image Resolution
Preferences

Photoshop Tools
--- Erase
--- Foreground/Background Color
----- Eyedropper
--- Paintbrush / Airbrush
--- Paint bucket / Gradient
- Selection tools
--- Marquee
--- Lasso
--- Crop
--- Magic Wand
-- Move
*Appropraition & Culture Recycling in Digital Media

Join the college Newspaper

Your College Needs You!

Hilltops, the print voice for Hartwick College students for the last 76 years, is currently seeking writers, photographers, news junkies, opinion mongers, insomniacs, know-it-alls, and the obsessively curious to form it’s 2007-2008 staff.

Hartwick’s student newspaper is looking to fill the following positions:

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Your involvement in Hilltops can leave a lasting mark on Hartwick College, your resume, and you. If you have a good eye, a need to know, or an axe to grind, join us today! Hilltops needs team players of all sorts to create an active and engaged student voice that will be heard across Oyaron Hill and beyond.

A general interest meeting will be held tomorrow, Tuesday September 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hilltops office on the third floor of Dewar Union in the Communications Suite. Attend!

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_______________________

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Connecting the Classroom to the World

opportunity

View As Web Page

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CALLING ALL PAINTERS AND/OR DRAWERS!

(and other creative peoples: you DO NOT need to be an art major)

Last semester I started a volunteer project working on painting murals in the local Fox Pediatrician’s Office (located near Price Chopper) and I am seeking volunteers to help me continue the project! Last semester we were able to complete 5 rooms but we still have 6 to go, so any help would be great.

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In class fri Sept 13th

Google MAps and "Street View"

Questions about privacy? surveillance? a new point of view?


Google Earth
& Google Sketch up


Check out Project 2


Intro to Photoshop 7
-Photoshop Overview
Setting up your work area
Open / Browser / Save
History / Undo function
* Digital Image Resolution
* File Types
Zoom / Hand tools
Image size / Canvas size
Preferences

In Class Tue Sept 11th

Check Out Project 1

The RSS feed review

POP URLs

Yahoo Pipes
the Data Re-Mix
- check out the videos
- how does this change our connection to the rest of the world?
- lets play



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Pac Pizza

Analogue Pac-Man?

In Class Thur Sept 6th

MAc BAsics
gettin used to the machine

What is an RSS feed?
check out del.icio.us
whats a podcast
a calender RSS feed


Personal network and the feed:
why?
how can it help?


To do in class.
get a Flickr account
get a YouTube account
get a Ziki Account

Hangin in class first daY.

Hello class it was great to meet you today!


and again

Digital Media Examples