Sharing photos

After a wonderful trip to San Pedro, I imagine you have lots of pictures and anecdotes to share.

I invite you to publish them in your blogs!

1. Visit this site: http://www.slide.com/
2. Open an account by clicking on "register"
3. Start creating.You can choose different effects, colours and styles for your pictures and  you can also add music.
4. Once it is ready, get the embedding code and post together with a description. (I've done one)
5. If at the moment of publishing your post, they show you an "alert" saying that there's an error, click on "Stop showing HTML errors for the body of this post" and click on publish the post again.

HAVE FUN!

I prepared this presentation from my last summer holidays. They're pictures from Los Reyunos, in San Rafael, Mendoza.
Los Reyunos is a dam on the Diamante river; the dam is used to generate hydroelectricity. This is done in a power station located below the level of the reservoir.
Los Reyunos Fishing and Nautical Club, along with private summer residences and a hotel, lies on the western shore of the reservoir and serves as a base for activities in the lake (such as windsurf, canoeing) and in the surrounding mountains (such as hiking).


The landscape is unbelievably beautiful and it invites you to relax!

Animation

The following site lets you draw a person and then turns your drawing to a bunch of dancing people having a good time.

http://roxik.com/pictaps/

Your task:

• Go to the site
• Draw a person
• Get the embedding code and post the animation in your blog
• Describe in writing what he/she is doing, what he/she looks like. It would also be interesting to say what is going on in the animation.
  

Here's mine:

Third and last activity: WANTED

I just read the following activity in Nik's Peachey's blog and thougt it might be interesting to work with it.

You'll have to create a "Wanted" poster with a photo of yours. You can improve your digital pictures and drawings with this collection of easy to use photo effects at this site.

It's really easy to use, you just upload a photograph and then write in your own caption. You can then download and print the images or add them to blogs or web pages.

Here's mine:


Just choose "wanted posters", create yours and download it into your computer.

After that, publish it in your blog and write a fictional story saying why you're being wanted (at least three paragraphs).

2nd activity of the first free week: Creating your own comic

Today you will create comic strips using the Make Belief Comix site.

Follow these steps:

• Go to: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com and click on 'Enter Here' below the comic strip.

• Wait just a few seconds. You will then see the comic creator. Try to imagine a dialogue. Use your creativity. The comic can have as many pictures as you need.
  
• You are ready to create a comic strip.
• Choose the first character you want to use, click on it. Then scroll through different emotions that you would like them to have by clicking on the red arrows.

• Once you have the one you want, just click on the person and they will appear in the comic strip. You can drag the person to the position you want them. Add other characters and text balloons for your dialogue.

• Click on the "talk baloons" or "thought baloons" and move them to the picture. Type the words.
• Notice you have some tools that will allow you to move the characters.
  
• Once you have finished you can print up or email the comic strip to your friends and yourself and keep it as a reminder.
  

• I sent an e-mail to myself so that I could get the code of my comic. I received the following:

Marina (...........@gmai.com) has sent you a Make Beliefs Comix! Click on the link below to see the Make Beliefs Comix that was created for you. If the link below does not work, please copy and paste the address into your browser.

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=21195525C118184

• Tell us about your experience and copy the link of your comic strip in "comments" so that we can all enjoy it. Here's mine:
  

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• HERE'S ANOTHER SITE WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A MOVIE, BY CHOOSING CHARACTERS, SETTINGS AND BACKGROUND MUSIC.

• ONCE IT'S FINISHED, EMBED IT IN YOUR BLOG BY COPYING THE EMBEDDING CODE.

THE SITE: http://www.dfilm.com/live/moviemaker.html