Editing images

The basic skills you should master:

1. Saving an image from the web
2. Compressing, saving in various formats (with different extensions)
3. Crop (ořez)
4. Changing brightness, sharpness, hue and other basic features
5. Making a part of the image transparent


Tasks:
1. Crop your image. Remember - the main part of the image should be taken by the main object (or idea, or situation)
2.  Use LEVELS to set the Lightning (Menu: Enhance - Adjust Lightning - Levels)
3. Adjust sharpness. play with blur :)

4. Use GIMP: Find two images and combine them into one, applying transparency (e.g. Donald Duck walking through Usti nad Labem :) )


TIPS
How to make things transparent in GIMP:
Layers – Transparency – Add alpha channel
Choose the background using the magic wand.
The simplest method is to use Edit → Clear

HOMEWORK:
Prepare 10 images which you will use in your vocabulary teaching HotPot project. Keep them in the original size + make the same set in web version (max size 40kb per image).


More information on image formats (in Czech) - HERE
How to make a good photography?

Roman Pihan - a whole web on photography, including tutorials, tips and galleries
Ondřej Neff - practiacal tips for all

Jednoduše na kompozici

GIMP online help (in English)

Creating a Webpage

TASK 1 - Your (first?) website
You can get some inspiration in the professional sites - any newspaper is a good choice, or BBC http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/, or many others. Keep the content in mind, and be creative :)

1. Draw the structure of your future web on a sheet of paper. Check the credit requirements  to get an idea what the compulsory parts are.

2. Open Notepad (Poznamkovy blok) and write the text you would like to publish in your site. Start with the content of the index page - the first page the user will see. Keep the Internet Safety Rules in mind – do not publish your personal data (the date of birth, phone number, credit card numbers …)

3. Open the WYSIWYG web editor New View (nvu.exe) and explore the possibilities of the software.
Above all, learn how to:
- modify colours
- insert images
- organise the page content using frames (tables)
- insert links into text and images
Of course there are more elegant ways of editing, but our main aim is to understand the principles of web creation. If you are safe in this field, feel free to apply your creativity and do more!

Learn more about web colours here - BARVY WEBU

4. Start new web at webzdarma.cz and upload your files (index.html, images...)

5. Publish the URL of your new web as a comment to this blog. :)


How to avoid troubles with image owners

How to write WEB? Easy and fast info

PC Skills for ELT

Computer Skills for Teachers

TASK 1  - How can we use ICT in English Language Teaching?
Enter your ideas into the comment to this blog. Write a few notes first, rephrase, think of more possibilities, then publish. You have approx. 15 minutes. Do NOT use MS Word, use Notepad (not-formatted text).

TASK 2 - Hotkeys
Go to http://pcskills.capsa.cz/
Download the file Hotkeys_Task.doc
Find out how to use the listed hotkeys :)

Which of them do you normally use?
Choose at least three more - those you consider most useful - and start using them regularly!

TASK 3 - Using Word
Download the file Word_Task.doc form capsa.
Find out whether you really know how to work with WORD!

Tasks 2 and 3 are your pesonal responsibility - they will not be "collected and checked". Ask in doubts, try yourself to learn something new, without the direct push from outside. Set your own goals; e.g. - "I will start using these new hotkeys, I will find out how to create automatic Content in word, because I need it for my BC thesis."

         
TASK 4 - Your (first?) website
Take a pen and a paper, and draw the layout of your website homepage. You can get some inspiration in the professional sites - any newspaper is a good choice, or BBC http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/, or many others. Keep the content in mind, and be creative :)

HOMEWORK for advanced users - Your Home installations:
Audacity (+lame for mp3 export)
Nvu (or any other web editor, not necessarily WYSIWYG)
Gimp (or any other image editor - Zoner, Photoshop Elements,IrfanView)
Hot Potatoes
Activ Inspire (reg.key is available at the board in 226)
Smart Notebook (reg. key available from the teacher)




CREDIT REQUIREMENTS

active participation, working on classroom tasks
80% attendance
Projects: (submission deadline May 10, 2013)
1. A personal website (includes: personal profile, photogallery of photos taken on your own, a page on your hobbies/interests including active links to references, HotPot index and exercises, links to all school projects and tasks)
2. Hot Potatoes project
3. Photogallery - choose an original and creative topic, take 12 images and present them; topic example: my town as I see it (not really tourist postcards, right?)
4. Your choice: either audiocomments to the images in the gallery, or a video of cca 5 minutes, English sound, with your subtitles and inserted instructions for the use in a lesson.