The Minist

Hess Logo T-shirt

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Cool drawing/sketching program

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Prezi

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MJ Dance Flash

2009-08-23T20:51:00.001-07:00

Play MJ Dance Machine Game

Play Online Games at Online Games!

Blue

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Flash Actions Script 3 basic button functions

2009-08-03T01:44:00.000-07:00

copy and past this into your actions window to activate your buttons. (but see this website first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ameTsITMhxo

// Replace buttonInstanceName with instance name of your button - three places
buttonInstanceName.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonInstanceName_onMouseClick);
function buttonInstanceName_onMouseClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
// actions go here. Basic examples:
// Ex: play();
// Ex: stop();
// Ex: gotoAndPlay(___); where ___ = frame number
// Ex: gotoAndStop(___); where ___ = frame number
// Ex: prevFrame();
// Ex: nextFrame();

// Ex: var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); where url is http://www.somedomain.com/
// navigateToURL(request, '_blank'); // second argument is target and is optional to open in same page

// Replace movieClipInstanceName with the instance name of your MovieClip
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.play();
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.stop();
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.gotoAndPlay(___); where ___ = frame number
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.gotoAndStop(___); where ___ = frame number
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.prevFrame();
// Ex: movieClipInstanceName.nextFrame();

}

Selassie Speech ( Wordle vs. Photoshop)

2009-06-05T06:16:00.000-07:00

Raj

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Dear Mama by Tupac

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Good Morning

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Comic Generator Using ComicSketch

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One by U2 using Wordle

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kaleidescope using Qbesq

2009-05-22T21:27:00.000-07:00

The Bakery on Norton St.

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Surround51

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Photosynth Test

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Graffiti overlay on Picture using Magic Wand Tool

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Collagr tool

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Group Online Graffiti

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Visit www.moblyng.com to make your own!

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BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.

2009-05-11T07:24:00.001-07:00

BubbleShare: Share photos - Find great Clip Art Images.

Top 10 Tools for a Constructivist Classroom

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10_tools_for_constructivists

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Town Hall Meeting

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Get a Voki now!

2009-05-10T18:56:00.001-07:00

Collaborative Online Book Project

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Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at Aniboom

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This was done using Adobe Illustrator, freehand tool, then a 3d effect, then the warp tool.

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spring break

2009-04-29T07:47:00.000-07:00

The Minist (the book)

2009-04-28T23:26:00.000-07:00

My adopte- Line of Code named Gordonne Swartz

2009-04-28T23:03:00.001-07:00

Mosaic Cubed via Photoshop

2009-04-27T15:13:00.001-07:00

Special thanks to Colin Smith for the tutorial at:

http://www.webdesign.org/web/3d-graphics/tutorials/3d-cube-in-photoshop.1001.html

Flickr Toys Mosaic

2009-04-27T13:55:00.001-07:00

I couldn't find out easily how to do this in Photoshop, but this Flickrextensions website helped: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

If anyone has a Picasa tricks or tools extension website like the one above???

*This project was heavily influenced by Actung Baby cover art from U2.

(I can see a U2 cubed project coming soon.)

Really Cool OnLine Video Making Site: ANIMATO

2009-04-24T20:37:00.000-07:00

Naming Noah

2009-03-13T22:59:00.000-07:00

It was midnight and all of a sudden...

Coming from the newspaper business (I was a reporter for several years) and being married to a wife in the paper business (reporter), I find it very difficult to write about serious matters in Blogs. I realize that is kind of elitist since newspapers were probably once scoffed at by literates who only read or wrote books.

Therefore I will not divulge any heart to heart here. Blogs are for discussing issues and current events etc, almost anything, except the birth of your child. I believe some topics are sacred and should never be put in a blog.

But on the other hand if you want to crowd-source predictions for when your baby will be born, that is kind of fun and fair game for glib e-communications. As you can see at the link below, only with the second to last poll taker was the exact date correctly predicted for our baby to be born. And his reasons were amusing:

"Friday, 6 March: actual birth @ 925PM. The full moon isn't until 11 March, but the end of Feb. is the trough. So, the rise to the full will encourage birth, at least according to this unreliable website: http://www.firsttimepregnancy.com/176.html Oh, a girl." - Bill Harrison

http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1374711/

There is a good story about the naming of Noah, but I suppose I will tell people in person or save if for the novel I never write.

Flash Project 1 with AdobeFlash

2009-02-04T15:05:00.001-08:00

http://animation.about.com/od/2danimationtutorials/ss/2d_fla_lesson1.htm

Bolt Magazine

2009-01-26T07:25:00.000-08:00

Winter Crickets by Rajesh Barnabas

2009-01-22T18:44:00.000-08:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?tkfijlv0ij4

My Power Grid

2009-01-11T21:52:00.001-08:00

Rupert Murdoch (Owner of MySpace) and his connections

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Landslide news story

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10 things I did over the break

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1) I stayed in Rochester.
2) Spent holiday with family (my sister and parents) and also with new family (my wife and her family). My brother lives in France so I didn't see him.
3) Played Tennis.
4) Played Basketball
5) Made beats with iDrum and Garage Band and posted them into my blog.
6) I saw the movie "Burn After Reading" which was pretty funny.
7) I had lunch at a Mexican restaurant named Salinas.
8) Edited a movie from my wedding this past summer. Gave that as a gift to my wife's parents.
9) Hung out with my best friend Ajay Trivedi.
10) Spent New Year's downtown and saw the fireworks. It was bitterly cold out.

New Year - New Changes

2009-01-05T07:15:00.001-08:00

Welcome back and happy New Year. I am happy to see most of you back, healthy and looking good as usual. We do have the best looking students at Franklin if not the smartest! This second half of the school year we are going to be a bit more organized. That goes for me (the teacher) and you (the students).

A few things will be changed this semester.

1) First, you will all have assigned computers. The reason for this being that last semester quite a fuss was made about this student or that being on “their computer.” So now choose your computer today and you will stay on that computer for the remainder of the school year.

2) Second, there were some tardy issues last year, mainly with the same repeat offenders, I won’t call out names here, but you know who you are. Now if you are late, you will have to sign the RED BINDER. If you are late more than 2 times within 1 week, you will have to stay after school with ME, Mr. B. or write an essay of 500 words or more as to why you were late and why you believe being late is okay.

3) Third, we have an exciting new schedule of projects and activities, as well as guest speakers for this second half of the year. I know a lot of the time, students walk into class and wonder what is going on today. Well that will all change. Everyday you will know exactly what we are doing by theme and routine.

Mondays will be Media Mondays: Using the textbook Media Writing, every Monday you will have an assigned reading with questions, which you will then answer into your Blog

Tuesday will be typing Tuesdays. You will spend a good portion of classroom time learning how to type correctly. Most of the students in this class do not know how to type properly. Typing is an extremely important skill in most professions today. Typing is primarily important for college. All those who plan on attending college, will have to write at least 50 term papers. This job will be a lot easier if you learn how to type now.

Wednesdays will be World Events Wednesdays. You will work in news teams to research a story that is of global significance and then report that to your fellow classmates the following day. Each team (3-4 members) will produce a written report and a visual (image or video) to go with the story.

Thursdays will be THE NEWS SHOW day. We will video record your reports in the Television Studio. Each team will have 5 minutes of fame!

Friday will be Freestyle Friday. This is where we will have guest speakers and you will work on your own special projects (Magazines, Web Design, Music Production, Photoshop, Video/Movies). These are semester long projects that you will showcase at the end of the year and be proud of. YES!

FINALLY, I want to say that it is a pleasure to be back and I am excited about all the projects you guys will be producing this year. Just remember, Rome was not built in a day. Harvard did not become Harvard overnight either. First there were a few super smart people coming together, then more and more. Hip hop came about in NYC because a few artiste there were committed and had something new to show the world. Lil Wayne worked on his craft for decades before he made it big. I look around the classroom each day and see an amazing amount of talent. Let’s make people take notice of us. But I every student in here to produce. I need you to sit down and work hard on various projects and see which ones you really want to do. Then tell me. I need feedback. I need students that are going to be doing projects outside of the classroom and thinking about creating things beyond this school, and even this city. I need you to dream bigger than you already are!

A lot of things are changing. We have a new president in Barack Obama, we have a new superintendent of Rochester city Schools in Jean-Claude Brizzard, if you didn’t notice Dr. Rodriguez is the youngest principal in all of Rochester City Schools. That is a good thing. GMA is the place to be. Take pride in it and make this next 6 months together memorable. Let’s Go!

Barnabas Bill

2008-12-15T12:33:00.000-08:00

Flash Swiff File Podcast Demo With Images

2008-12-15T07:29:00.001-08:00

This Flash Player was created with Sprout Builder - a free and easy way of creating flash animations for your Blogs/various social network pages, not to mention add audio easily.

It can be also adapted for imbedding your own audio player for podcast onto your web site. YES!

You simply:

1) Record your mp3 using Garage Band for Macs or Audacity for PCs

2) Pull your mp3 it into Sprout Builder

3) Add a still image or slide show like the one above.

The song featured here are my own creations using Garage Band, iDrum software, and also a keyboard hooked up via midi connections through a box called TASCAM. All the junk works pretty fluidly together.

Song titles from top to bottom: 1) MJ2009 2) 2009 Leagues 3) Winter Crickets 4) Rajsta

*One troubleshooting item: If it is taking a while for the audio to load, simply click on the title of the specific entry/podcast - in this case "Flash Swiff File Podcast Demo With Images." That loads the article and player into it's separate page where the audio works perfectly!

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This title was created using LiveType.

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Vespa commercial

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Red Squashed

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Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

The Franklin Shuffle

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Franklin Shuffle by rbarnabas

Make your own | Clone and edit

Practice Animation from Animasher

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Mix Animation 1 by Rajesh

Make your own | Clone and edit

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fonts

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Podcasting

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Podcasting

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

Logos

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theMinist's 1st Podcast

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iMic and Indian Music

(click on the link above to go to the pod cast)

- this took me a couple hours on Garage Band and then another hour navigating OurMedia, only to find out you don't need OurMedia at all and can just go straight to www.archive.org to pod your cast.

Dreamweaver tutorials on Vimeo

2008-07-17T09:06:00.000-07:00

Vimeo is the coolest trendiest sleekest upper west side site out there for video hosting. And now you can teach yourself anything via it.

Here is one for Dreamweaver ( the web design software) :

http://www.vimeo.com/1230622

This is a good fix since trying to do the tutorial on may websites it gets choppy. Also it will cost you $20. if you buy the downlad or cds. So again this is all free tutorials on Vimeo.

It was also mentioned by another student in our Hybrid Computer Ed. class at Nazareth College that http://www.teachertube.com/ was another good site for lessons and tutorials.

If you don't have Dreamweaver software, there is an open source one that is free that does essentially many of the things Dreamweaver does. Nvu stands:

http://nvudev.com/index.php

"Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML. "

If you don't like online tutorials then there is always the Dreamweaver text tutorial at: http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml

Gapminder - Great for Social Studies/Math teachers (Software Review)

2008-07-10T23:02:00.000-07:00

http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

Definitely usable and visually appealing. Along the same lines as Harper's Index, this online tool allows you to compare stats (life
expectancy, environmental, military expenses) for every nation in the world. It sets up a graph and plots out whatever stat you want. Choose from about 100 different country statistics.

Okay, so they only have almanac type info right now, so that isn't quite the obscurities Harper's finds, but still who knows what this site will offer in the future.

The best part about this, is teachers and students can create online flowing bubble graphs starting just this past April 2008!

http://www.gapminder.org/

"Last month they announced their first interactive bubble-chart in form of a Gadget in Google Spreadsheet. Motion chart lets you create your own chart from data you have published on a Google Spreadsheet....and it gives any user for the first time the possibility to make their own "Gapminder-like" graphs from thier own data. "

Google Spreadsheets will replace Excel spreadsheets soon, simply because of the ease at which multiple parties can use the same sheet, manipulate it, send it to and fro online - great for planning a guest list for a wedding. Thnx Jeevs for discovering that one.

Back to Gapminder:

You can also join a community of Gapminder graph creators at:

http://www.gapminder.org/world/devblog/

Here is where you might find those more obscure Harper's Index type stats.

The only drawback to this software site is that it didn't appear to be downloadable, which means classrooms would have to have the online connection to run the thing. Google has been pretty kid-tested parent-approved cereal so far. You would think they would turn this over to the people completely.

Woops! I spoke too soon. "Gears" allows you to download all Google Docs software:

http://gears.google.com/

Also there is no printable button attached to the software, in the likely event you want a hard copy of a graph. There is a way around that:

For Mac Users you can use the "GRAB" tool (located in the Applications/Utilities folder). This works like "Snag it" and you can snap a picture of anything on your screen and then print out that image. For PC's I am not sure how to do this...perhaps "print screen"???

Know 1 Know All

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July 10

Know One, know all.
– Katha Upanishad

To know others, you do not have to go and knock on four billion separate doors. Once you have seen your real Self, you have seen the Self in all. It makes it easy to understand and to forgive, and very difficult to quarrel. All of life springs from the same root. The Self in each of us is one and the same.

For this Self, different names are given in different traditions. Christian mystics call it the Christ within. When a person ceases to identify with his perishable self, they say he has become Christ-conscious. The Hindu mystics speak of Krishna-consciousness, or say that such a person has attained complete freedom from the conditioning of time, space, and circumstance. The Buddhists call the same state nirvana, from nir, “out” and vana, “to blow.” The ego has been extinguished; there is no more shadow to be mistaken for the real.

- By Eknath Easwaren

http://www.easwaran.org/page/141

introduction

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