Class Recap for Thursday 4th

We began class by viewing the second Animoto videos you made. They looked good! I enjoyed the variety of music that you all selected.
I also demoed LightScribe labeling technology. LightScribe is a labeling technology in which special disks are laser etched on the flip side of the data side. HP includes LightScribe enabled disk burners/recorders on many of their computers. I really like the look of the results. They are relatively low contrast, but they have a very unique look to them. Since not a huge amount of people use it, they still provoke interest in people who haven't seen them before. I always use it to label disks I am sending out to exhibitions or jobs which require images on CD.
Everyone also created a Google account to have use of Google Docs. Google Docs is a free Google cloud computing application which provides an alternative suite of office productivity apps for free that can be readily access on only computer with internet access. I use it all the time to access notes and create documents. It include apps which are roughly equivalent to limited version of Word, Power Point,  and Excel. You will be using it to create a slide show presentation on the theme of "A Day in the the Life". This weekend you should take photos documenting what you do over the course of a day or a weekend. I encourage you to get creative with with. Last semester, a student did a presentation on the day in the life of her socks! It was really funny.
Lastly, I introduced you quickly to Mozy.com and asked that you create a free 2GB account and back up all your Word documents to it. We will go over this again on Tuesday so if you have trouble with it don't worry about it. I will also show you how to take screen grabs.
The remainder of the class will be spent creating your presentation which we will view as a class on Thursday.