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Tuesday's Agenda

Warm Up Activity & Site of the Day
Add your Animation to Your Wikispace Camper Page at techsavvy2007.wikispaces.com

Think.com Log into [|Think.com] Practice Adding Your Own Animation > Creating a Folder on Desktop > Copying Files from Network Drive to Deskop > Using a thumbdrive to transfer data
 * Review Summer Camp Rules
 * File Management Lesson 3

Multimedia Clip of the Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxDw-t3XWd0

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Ethics and Safety Focus of the Day
Participating in a Virtual Community - Think.com How do virtual neighbors stay safe and take care of each other

Copyright and Copyleft What is [|Creative Commons] License How is Creative Commons materials different than copyrighted materials

Technology Workshops

Workshop 1:
Creating Animation using [|Scratch] (Download a free copy) Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
 * Scratch is a new programming language developed at MIT that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Workshop 2

 * - Turning your animations into movies for the web

>> to combine your animations, music, sounds, titles, and credits into a movie
 * Saving your animations in formats that can be used by movie making programs
 * How to save Pivot animations as animated "GIFS"
 * How to save Animator programs as *.avi movie files
 * How to use Audacity - a free audio recording and mixing program
 * How to use Movie-Maker - a program freely available on Windows computers
 * How to download "legal" music from the Internet
 * How to upload your finished movie onto the Internet (we used blip.tv)
 * How to "embed" code into your wiki pages that plays your uploaded movie inside a webpage, blog or wiki
 * How to add a LINK to your Internet movie in THINK, on a web page, on a wiki, or in an email

End of Day Activity
Experiment with Think.com Guidelines for Using a social networking site like Think.com appropriately Participating in a group project using Think.com Give us feedback about the day or camp so far Brainstorm end of week activities