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Showing posts with label Smartphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smartphone. Show all posts
Monday, May 15, 2017
15 Hidden Instagram Features
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/instagram-features-tricks#sm.0017ci4g0dtddup10nz1wiihkehu0
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Google Photos
If you know me well in real life, you've probably heard me mention Google Photos, then proceed to go on and on about it at some point. Google Photos is one of my favorite Apps & Features and in my opinion is the one thing I feel everyone should have, but no one really seems to know about.
Google Photos is an online storage and synchronization tool, like Google Drive, except it is geared specifically around photos and videos. The thing that makes Google Photos so great is that unlike other online storage spaces like iCloud, Google Drive, or Drop Box - Google Photos can allow unlimited storage space! Now the only "catch" to this is that you allow Google to reformat your images to slightly slightly slightly lower quality, but honestly, I can't even tell the difference between the originals and the Google modified version.
If you are like me you might want some photos to use them for reasons where you need them to remain high quality, like an art portfolio. The way that I manage this, is by taking those specific photos I want to stay high quality, and uploading the originals to Google Drive but also backing them to Photos. This allows for a quick ready view version, as well as a back up of the highest quality file.
I was going to make a video of this myself for Google photos, however I think this video does a great job of explaining the way to maximize your Google Photos use between your computer, devices and phones.
While it might take a little bit of trial and error, I urge you to take some time to play around with it and find out how you want to use it. Google Photos has been amazing in that all my photos are always at hand and searchable in my pocket, and best of all is it's all free!
Google Photos is an online storage and synchronization tool, like Google Drive, except it is geared specifically around photos and videos. The thing that makes Google Photos so great is that unlike other online storage spaces like iCloud, Google Drive, or Drop Box - Google Photos can allow unlimited storage space! Now the only "catch" to this is that you allow Google to reformat your images to slightly slightly slightly lower quality, but honestly, I can't even tell the difference between the originals and the Google modified version.
If you are like me you might want some photos to use them for reasons where you need them to remain high quality, like an art portfolio. The way that I manage this, is by taking those specific photos I want to stay high quality, and uploading the originals to Google Drive but also backing them to Photos. This allows for a quick ready view version, as well as a back up of the highest quality file.
I was going to make a video of this myself for Google photos, however I think this video does a great job of explaining the way to maximize your Google Photos use between your computer, devices and phones.
While it might take a little bit of trial and error, I urge you to take some time to play around with it and find out how you want to use it. Google Photos has been amazing in that all my photos are always at hand and searchable in my pocket, and best of all is it's all free!
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Smartphone Camera Tricks!
The iPhone is the most used camera in the world today, however many people don't do too much outside the box thinking when it comes to using it for taking photographs. Check out this awesome video below for 7 photography tips & tricks to get the most out of your smartphone camera!
Friday, April 7, 2017
Stop Motion & Time Lapse Movies
One of my favorite free apps that I've found during my time as a teacher is iMotion. This app allows you easily create stop motion videos with manual capture and automatic capture functions. There are lots of videos already online that can help you with some of the basic features of the app, however I really think it's worth downloading and playing around with yourself to really get a feel for it!
During my time teaching I've used in creating stop-motion projects and also as a tool for documenting their process. Time-lapse videos and stop-motion are things I found all students knew of, but didn't quite understand the specifics behind how it all worked. iMotion was a fantastic way to talk about things like how animation works, how things can be slowed down or sped up and frame rates.
Like most of my favorite apps, one of the best features about is it's free so it's accessible to anyone with an apple device!
Here are two examples with a warmup project I did kicking off the year with 8th graders. For this, they worked in a group collaboration creating a symmetrical design which they would fill with zentangles and paint the negative space with gradations. To get them used to the digital integration components of the class they were to collaborate using iMotion app and Google Drive in putting together a stop-motion (or time-lapse) movie showing their process
This was a project I did my first year were students storyboarded their own stop motion movies and then took the finished videos and created music that synced up to them in their music class. Unfortunately, the files I had backed up got lost in a computer getting fried before I backed up regularly to google drive (lesson learned). Lucky for me, at least I had this video saved, even if it is without the sound!
If you try out iMotion for yourself and have any questions about it feel free to comment and I'll help you out anyway that I can!
During my time teaching I've used in creating stop-motion projects and also as a tool for documenting their process. Time-lapse videos and stop-motion are things I found all students knew of, but didn't quite understand the specifics behind how it all worked. iMotion was a fantastic way to talk about things like how animation works, how things can be slowed down or sped up and frame rates.
Like most of my favorite apps, one of the best features about is it's free so it's accessible to anyone with an apple device!
Here are two examples with a warmup project I did kicking off the year with 8th graders. For this, they worked in a group collaboration creating a symmetrical design which they would fill with zentangles and paint the negative space with gradations. To get them used to the digital integration components of the class they were to collaborate using iMotion app and Google Drive in putting together a stop-motion (or time-lapse) movie showing their process
This was a project I did my first year were students storyboarded their own stop motion movies and then took the finished videos and created music that synced up to them in their music class. Unfortunately, the files I had backed up got lost in a computer getting fried before I backed up regularly to google drive (lesson learned). Lucky for me, at least I had this video saved, even if it is without the sound!
If you try out iMotion for yourself and have any questions about it feel free to comment and I'll help you out anyway that I can!
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