Make a collage of the same assignment. Include at least five "things" that will make your life successful or happy. "Things" can be people, places, material things, symbols that represent ideas. There is no maximum. You can use words and images. The only limit you have is time.
Here's one site to make a collage of pictures. You have to save images to your computer first. Then post the collage to your blog as an image.
You can use images directly from the web with this one. When done, embed it on your blog.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Effective Themes
Before:
After:
Today we are going to add effects to the theme pictures you selected last week. There are several great sites that let you alter images for free without an account or any downloads.
Use at least two sites and alter at least 15 of your 20 images. Make sure you remove words from all photos.
When you are done, put all of your images in one PowerPoint presentations. Set the transitions to three seconds per slide and save the presentations on your memory stick. Call the presentation name_theme; mine would be niki_theme.
Make sure you save some before and after pictures- we will use those tomorrow.
Here are some sites I recommend. Remember you have to use at least two and you have to redo at least fifteen photos:
Picnik.com
Lunapic.com
http://fotoflexer.com/
Phinxr.com
After:
Today we are going to add effects to the theme pictures you selected last week. There are several great sites that let you alter images for free without an account or any downloads.
Use at least two sites and alter at least 15 of your 20 images. Make sure you remove words from all photos.
When you are done, put all of your images in one PowerPoint presentations. Set the transitions to three seconds per slide and save the presentations on your memory stick. Call the presentation name_theme; mine would be niki_theme.
Make sure you save some before and after pictures- we will use those tomorrow.
Here are some sites I recommend. Remember you have to use at least two and you have to redo at least fifteen photos:
Picnik.com
Lunapic.com
http://fotoflexer.com/
Phinxr.com
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Magazine Profiles
Today we’re going to look closer at some magazines you’ve already chosen as interesting. Go back to your December 9th blog and decide on two of the three magazines you used for that assignment.
For those two magazines, do the following:
1) create a link to the magazine homepage on your blog
2) write the profile of the target audience for that magazine
(profile should include age, gender, race, income, interests/hobbies, and other information)
3) list five ads that either appear or should appear in that magazine
4) state whether or not those ads would appeal to the target audience
**If you finish early, link the name of the ad to the homepage of the product**
Here’s my sample (remember you have to do two):
Mental Floss is a magazine that is marketed towards people who call themselves “Knowledge Junkies.” More specifically, this probably means men and women ages 20-50 who spend a lot of time reading, seeking information and learning- people who probably surf the web a lot. They are targeting educated people with good jobs (or who had professional careers) who are interested in taking quizzes, and learning odd facts. The Mental Floss audience likes trivia, brain teasers, reading blogs and hearing about how smart people have created or done interesting things.
Here are three ads that appeared in Mental Floss and two ads I think they should run:
1) Keller Graduate School of Management: probably interesting to the target audience
2) American Express Gift Cards: might be interesting to the target audience, especially at Christmas
3) Progressive Auto Insurance: might be interesting to the target audience
4) Uncommon Goods: this is a really cool website of neat gift ideas that readers of this magazine would enjoy
5) OmgPop: this is a fun game site that people who read this magazine might enjoy
For those two magazines, do the following:
1) create a link to the magazine homepage on your blog
2) write the profile of the target audience for that magazine
(profile should include age, gender, race, income, interests/hobbies, and other information)
3) list five ads that either appear or should appear in that magazine
4) state whether or not those ads would appeal to the target audience
**If you finish early, link the name of the ad to the homepage of the product**
Here’s my sample (remember you have to do two):
Mental Floss is a magazine that is marketed towards people who call themselves “Knowledge Junkies.” More specifically, this probably means men and women ages 20-50 who spend a lot of time reading, seeking information and learning- people who probably surf the web a lot. They are targeting educated people with good jobs (or who had professional careers) who are interested in taking quizzes, and learning odd facts. The Mental Floss audience likes trivia, brain teasers, reading blogs and hearing about how smart people have created or done interesting things.
Here are three ads that appeared in Mental Floss and two ads I think they should run:
1) Keller Graduate School of Management: probably interesting to the target audience
2) American Express Gift Cards: might be interesting to the target audience, especially at Christmas
3) Progressive Auto Insurance: might be interesting to the target audience
4) Uncommon Goods: this is a really cool website of neat gift ideas that readers of this magazine would enjoy
5) OmgPop: this is a fun game site that people who read this magazine might enjoy
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