Posts for category ‘For Everyone’

Everyone knows what Google is. However, everyone doesn’t know how to find things most effectively, or all of the hidden tricks that are under Google’s hood. Finding exactly what you’re looking for on-line quickly and effectively is an important tool for academic, professional and personal success. One business consultant who works with the DSA told me once after I asked him what he was looking for in an employee, “Just give me someone who can find things using Google! I can’t find anyone who can get me what I need when I need it.”

Today we’re going to examine the work of George Boole, the inventor of Boolean Logic. Boolean Logic forms the basis of all modern computing and database systems. Primarily we will explore the effect the boolean operators “and”, “or” and “not” have on our searches of the big database that forms the foundation of Google search.

In addition, we’ll look at a cool resource called the Google Cheat Sheet that can help us get the most out of Google. (Did you know you could use google as a calculator? a dictionary?)

Finally, we’ll do some practice with our search skills by doing an Internet Scavenger Hunt.

Hopefully, we’ll be on our way to being able be better students and wasting less time wading through the dredge and gunk that clogs up so much of the web.

Check out these sample resumes from Monster.com’s sample library. While these people have more experience in many areas to you, what I really want you to focus on is how they describe their qualifications. Think about, as you write your resume, how to make your own experiences stand out in this way.

Graphic Designer | Film Production | Art Director

For reasons discussed throughout the site, the DSA is recommending our students create accounts at Vimeo for sharing video online. To begin sharing videos, first create a free account. Your free account allows you to upload up to 5 GB of video per week (certainly a lot for our purposes). You can also create channels and groups to organize and showcase your videos.

In order to make your videos play as smoothly as possible on-line, please follow the following Vimeo guidelines for compressing your video. (These compression guidelines will work for those of you uploading to YouTube, too.):

In Final Cut Express:

1. File>Export Using Quicktime Conversion
2. Check that the format reads “Quicktime Movie”, then click the “Options” button.
3. In the Movie Settings dialog, click Video Settings and make the following choices:
   • Compression Type: H.264
   • Key Frames Every 30 Frames
   • Data Rate, restrict to 2000 kbits/sec
   • Compression Quality: Best
4. Change the Video Size to 640 x 480, make sure to check the box “Deinterlace Source Video”
5. Under Audio Settings make the following choices:
   • Format: AAC
   • Channels: Stereo
   • Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz
   • Target Bit Rate: 320 kbps
6. Save it. (Note that exporting can take a long time. Sometimes as much as 3 or 4 times as long as the movie you’re exporting.)

The resulting .mov file will be well adapted to streaming on-line.

Upload them. Organize them. Embed them in your blog. Woot.

So, here’s the rules for the quiz. Take the three images and combine them similarly to the way I have using layers, masking, layer adjustments, and cloning. You have practiced and know all of the skills necessary to complete this image. The key is to plan and think about how the layers and masks will combine to get you the image you want, get the layers oriented how you need them and then begin executing the changes.

Easy Peasy.

To get the images to your computer, click on each, then right click on the larger images and save them to your desktop. When you are finished post the images to your blog and describe, in order of steps (use a numbered list) what you did to get the final image.

You can assist each other verbally as much as you wish, however only you can manipulate your image.

I was originally thinking I could run multimedia specific stuff through the main digitalsafari.org blog, thereby avoiding the need to manage multiple blogs, but I can’t. So, here goes a second blog. I’ll use this to keep our daily work in Multimedia posted.

Maybe.

At any rate, my intentions are good. I can always delete it later.