Class week of 3/24

News that should make things easier: Your SB drives can be web space if configured properly. We will be using them for your Soundslides projects and for the html training we will be working on over the next couple of weeks.

Today: We'll ease back into class with work getting your Soundslides projects into your blogs, and then we'll take some time showing them off to each other. If there's time at the end of class, we'll start setting up your personal web space for the html exercises we'll be doing.

Wednesday: We'll be spending time doing html exercises and learning some basics.

Embedded soundslides show

As you can see, this is Kate's Soundslides show.

We'll be working today so that you can use your SB storage space as Web space to host your projects.

New experimental blog in Blackboard

I haven't decided how/if we will use it, but my initial response is good.

I posted some info in there about our practice html work, which we'll begin tonight.

Layered Photoshop flag exercise

According to The New York Times, Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute, according to a person briefed on the inquiry.

• Wiretap Recording Said To Implicate Governor As Client
  
• Affidavit: Client 9 and Room 871
  
• It Wasn't Sex; Suspicious $$ Transfer Led To Spitzer
  

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, with his wife, Silda, made a statement to the news media on Monday.



Read or post comments here.

Important updates to Soundslides assignment

Nothing I haven't said already in class, but there are three important points I have highlighted that you don't want to miss. They all involve the final steps of finishing your work and turning it in.

See the assignment here.

I Hope I get Some Extra Credit for this-Mixing Two Songs

Since I didn't want to just edit for length but combine two songs as well I looked around for a program to help me do it. I know we can't download anything in the newsroom because Paul is the all-powerful computer Czar but you can do this with the mp3's you have, from the comforts of home. Here are the steps:

1) Go to this site and download Wavepad. Click the link right under the picture. There is also a mac version on the right side. Wavepad Download

2) Load your song. It will start to play and you can stop it wherever you would like the song to end. Then you can select the rest of the song using the mouse and then press command/control to get the right click options and press cut. Now you have the piece you want.

3) Then click Edit, and Mix File. It will give you the option to load the second track you want. This should add on right to the end of your other song. If you want any cool effects or zany transitions then I don't know what to tell you. I just downloaded this program 15 minutes ago.

4) You can repeat the steps above if you want to shorten the length of the combined track at the back end.

5) Then click save as and give your combined track a name. It will save as a .wav but you can use switch, as Professor Liss detailed, to turn it into an mp3. I did this from my room so I don't know if any unforeseen developments will occur on a Mac or if I left anything out in my euphoria over this actually working but those are the basics.

Cheerio.

OBAMA HAS THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

OBAMA IS RIDING THIS CAMPAIGN TILL THE WHEELS FALL OFF!

Senator Barack Obama still has hope of winning this years democratic ticket, despite Hillary's recent wins in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island. He still holds more delegate votes and is confident that he is the better candidate to run the nation.