Getting Started

Well done on completing your first class. It was great to have such a good turnout. It was really enjoyable to teach you as a group. You were all very positive and gave great input. Here is an outline of what we did and what we have agreed to do.

We started by looking out how you might like the class to work over the upcoming months. We put it out to you, what did you think were the important things that are needed to make it work. You came up with the following words:

Calm, Patience, Punctual, Generous, Fun, Respect, Helpful, Quiet and Listen to Each Other.

After this we discussed the idea of creating a theme for the overall project over the next 6 months. This will be divided into 4 separate 5 week sessions , with a week break in between each one. The first session is to be around Photography and Imagery, the 2nd is Ringtones & Audio, the 3rd is about creating a Photostory with images and sounds and the final session will be Online Publishing in creating your own website that ties all the work you've done over the 6 months. This will be something you own and can continue to work on after you've left Elevate and the DigiLight project.

We brainstormed an idea and these are the ideas you came up with. We broke these down in to 6 categories and from this we got you to vote on which category you'd like to do the project on. It was decided, with a winning 10 votes that the project was to be around Socialising and Going Out. Family came in with a close 2nd with 6 votes and Community came in third with 5 votes.

You all went for break and when you came back we took photos of you to use as profile pics for you. These you can then use on the web. Our final part of the class was about logging into your new email addresses. I need to apologise at this stage. There were some issues with speed and this is were people got a little lost and annoyed. It was my fault in not being more clear about that the web address you need to go to was http://webmail.digitalhublearning.com - when you got here you log in with your username. For all of you, that is you first name, with the first letter of your surname e.g. my login for Sam Lyons is "saml" - the password on first login is "password321". You are then asked to change you password. You must type this in twice, to make sure you haven't made a mistake. You are then asked to type in a Captcha (an image of a blurred word) and then you must click "I agree" at the bottom of the page.

That was all we had time for. Thanks to Jennifer for being the Time Lord during class. She did a brilliant job. Sorry for keeping you in a bit late. I'll do my best to get you back by letting you out 5 mins early next week.

Oh, I nearly forgot, we asked you to do a project for next week. You were asked your favourite colour and to take a minimum of 5 photos. These are to have your colour and have something to do with your theme - Socialising & Going Out in them. An example of this for me might be the following photo - my fav colour is Purple. This one def has purple in it and its from the inside of a nightclub. Get the idea?


See ya soon. Add a comment to this post if you wish.

Sam