Title and abstract

My project will be a DVD titled "Senior Year" and is senior year highlights of my youngest son, Tyler Jones. These highlights are a combination of digital pictures, text, and news clippings themselves, scanned with the intention to describe the multi-level of literacy understanding by both myself and Tyler. This project will describe how one student excels at multi-levels of literacy understanding through extra-cirricular activities (four sports) and academic success (ranked fifth in his graduating class), including UIL competitions. And because Tyler took accelerated classes, he was invited by UNT@Denton to take advantage of the Emerald Eagle scholarship, a full-tutition scholarship offered by the North Texas college campus. Tyler is the first student from Detroit, TX to attend that particular university.

week twelve-project

Well, I have managed only a small bit of progress where my project is concerned. I have downloaded Picasa on my work computer so I will have additional lab time to work on the last bit of maneuvers I have planned for my project, which consist of straightening out my scans, and placing these scans in the order between the pictures as I see they will offer the most sentimental meaning to Tyler. I think I will number the hard-copy of the articles so when I get ready to place them in that order between the pictures, it will be a much smoother process.

I still haven't tried to download my two songs. I think I will be much more comfortable working with someone on that part, from beginning to end. More later.

Week eleven--final project

I have accomplished a small amount of progress since my latest post. I have managed to scan the news articles and a couple of other things that I plan on using as transitions in the movie video I am planning on surprising my youngest son with. The scans have been saved on my jump-drive, which is the same place as my movie-maker video. I'm not sure, but to me having the scans and my already placed pictures on the same place is not going to work. I will ask for our expert guidance team CLIC for suggestions on how to best work with this.

A second thing I have noticed is that when one scans something, that does not necessarily mean it shows up having a straight line. Now, I have discovered there is a way to adjust these (some are only minimally off) so that is not a serious holdup. Anyway, to summarize what I feel about my project, things are coming along. It is turning out to be more work than originally anticipated, but after seeing the news scans, I still firmly believe that Tyler's eyes will light up when he views how much joy I got out of this small fraction of his life. More later.