Island Project

Continue working on the Island Project. Most students are still working on Step #2 (Storyboard). If you are working on Step #3 (Creating the Map on blank white paper) read the directions I posted on Tuesday. Make sure you use your best handwriting/coloring so you can get all of your neatness points.

Creating the Commercial

For this part of the project you are going to use Adobe Spark.

Signing Up for Spark

Last year, Adobe Spark was kind of a mess for logging in. The issue we discovered was that you have to be 13 years old. If you are already 13, you should be able to log-in or create your account without problems. If you are not 13 yet, here is a work around for you to create your account.

1. Go to the bottom of your screen to the search bar where it says, “Type here to search”
2. Inside of this search bar, type “internet”
3. Click on Internet Explorer
4. Inside of Internet Explorer, search for Adobe Spark
5. Click to go into Adobe Spark’s website
6. Click “Log-in” at the top of the screen
7. Click on the “Sign up with email” option
8. Fill out the information to create an account. You will have to create your own password. For the birthday, you will need to pick a date that makes it to where you are at least 13 years old. If you are only 12, either use a different birthday that is before 11/14 2006 or use 2005 as your birth year.
9. After you create your account, close Internet Explorer and Open Chrome back up. Adobe Spark won’t let you create a video in Internet Explorer.
10. Inside of Chrome, go back to Adobe Spark.
11. Click “Log-in”
12. Click “Log-in with Adobe ID”
13. Use the Log-in account that you just created in Internet Explorer to get Logged into Spark.

If you are 13, you will use Chrome and all you need to do to log-in is:

1. Click Log-in in the upper right hand corner.
2. Click “Continue with Google”
3. Type in your normal Google username and password just like you are signing into Google Classroom

After you get logged-in, watch the Tutorial Video that shows you how to use the program. You can access that video at: Google Drive>Shared Drive>Osborne>Computer Tutorials>Spark Tutorial

*To record your voice, you will need to use special headphones. I have a box in the back of the room, by the desk, that you can borrow some of these from. These headphones are a little bit different:

-To get them to work, plug them into your USB Port at the front of your computer.

-Make sure the microphone is closer to your chin than it is to your nose. If you have it too close to your nose, it’ll pick up a lot breathing noises.

*When you add narration, wait one second after you press the record button before you begin talking and then hold the record button one extra second after you finish speaking so your picture stays on the screen a little bit longer.

Pictures

You will get most of your pictures from Adobe. Whenever you watch the Tutorial video, it shows you how to get pictures from Adobe. Those pictures are Open Source.

If there is a picture/landform that you are having trouble finding in Adobe, you can use this link which is a website called Creative Commons.

To use Creative Commons, Type the word(s) you want to search for. Then click on Google Images. Then it will take you to pictures from Google Images that are all Open Source. When you find the picture you want to use, right-click on it and select “save image as” then save it to your H Drive.