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Just 3 Things: Photopea (Photoshop Alternative)
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Today’s 3 Things 0. Brief Orientation Practice Photopea HELP! (Emergency Troubleshooting Checklist) If something’s not working right, try this: One last thing! The instruction offered on Photopea’s website isn’t great, but, given their similarities, there are always Photoshop resources to refer to! Adobe has great training videos on its website: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html
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2019 Movie Making
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Creative Writing: Making Movies: Grades 6-11 Instructors Whitney Lew James and Kayla A. Sparks July 8-12, 2018 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) Have you ever pictured yourself writing or directing the next great movie? How about handling the camera that introduces the next award-winning actor? Or being that actor? Join fellow future filmmakers to write, film,…
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2018 Movie Making
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Creative Writing: Making Movies: Grades 6-11 Instructors Whitney Lew James and Kayla A. Sparks July 9-13, 2018 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) Have you ever pictured yourself writing or directing the next great movie? How about handling the camera that introduces the next award-winning actor? Or being that actor? Students in this class produce, script, film,…
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GlobalEx | Past Teams
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Meet Our 2017-2018 GlobalEX Teams Each GlobalEX team is in the process of EXploring, EXchanging and EXpanding local-global topics and initiating change on TCU’s campus and beyond. This year, all teams have Jamaican-inspired names because the winning GlobalEX Student Team takes a trip to Jamaica in the Spring of 2018! Click on the team names…
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MISD Workshop Goals
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Go for The Goals. (2016 Workshop Goals) For this workshop series, our goals were: We wanted attendees to go home with ideas for how to use digital tools to enhance their teaching of writing and with one assignment or unit jump started . Sample Activity: Take two minutes to write down what you’d like to…
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MISD Digital Writing
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Teaching Digital Writing According to the MISD curriculum pages for English/ Language Arts/ Reading, students are to create and deliver multimedia presentations by the end of the year. Likewise, “media literacy” is one of the ongoing skills to be learned by your students. What’s blogging about? Blogging makes the social reality of writing real. Before Google took over the Blogger.com online platform, the…
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MISD Digital Strategies II
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TEACHING DIGITAL STRATEGIES II: REVISING AND COMMENTING (2016 Workshop Activities Cont.) Activity: Modes of Response Take a few minutes and respond to the first few pages of a student draft, first on the hard copy and then on the Google doc version. What, if any, difference does the mode of response make? Digital strategies for drafting/collaboration Start with…
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MISD Digital Strategies I
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Digital Strategies for Teaching Writing (2016 Workshop Activities) Part I: Invention/Collaboration/Drafting Using the writing assignment you brought as an example, Multimodal = textual, aural, linguistic, spatial, and visual resources — or modes — used to compose messages. Multimodal Strategies for Invention Activity: Modes of Invention Chose one invention tool (Lucidchart, Bubbl.us, Coggle, or Post-its) and use it to brainstorm…
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GlobalEX | Leadership
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GlobalEX is a student-led campus initiative. Our Student Leadership Team leadership consists of 12 students. 2017-2018 Leadership 2016-2017 Leadership Our student leaders are supported by a number of TCU faculty and staff partners Staff from International Student Services and Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services Timeka Gordon, John Singleton, James English, Liz Branch Faculty Friends of GlobalEX…
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GlobalEX
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We are GlobalEX. We are collaborative. We are a collaborative initiative to bring international and domestic students together to engage in global learning activities and to partner with the local-global community in Fort Worth. We’ve Got Goals. GlobalEX Learning Outcomes: GlobalEX Benchmark Activities: