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fandomhigh2014-11-23 09:54 pm
throughaphase) wrote in fandomhigh2014-11-23 09:54 pm
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Technology and You- Monday- 1st period
Today the Danger Shop was set up like a large moddable park in the spring. Playground, plants, assorted small woodland creatures, they'd all been programmed in.
And there was Kitty at the front of the group with a box in her hands. "Hey, guys. Glad to see you're all teenagers today, and that's the last I'll mention of that. There's one thing that I can't believe I didn't get to when we were doing our first unit, and that's pictures. They're kind of popular these days, and you've probably had some exposure to them by now, even if it was just the photography booth at homecoming. It's a still frame of a moment or a peron or a thing that you want to capture. People take pictures for their weddings and parties, of scenery on vacation, or because you're having a good hair day and that warrants a selfie. Which, by the way, is a picture you take of yourself, in case you somehow hadn't heard that word by now. Most often now, people will take them with the camera app on your phone," she said, reaching into the box and picking up one of the phones they'd used at the start of the semester, "where you can upload them to social media, apply filters, whatever. But there are still some uses for digital cameras-" She pulled one of those out of the box, too. "-where you can move the pictures onto your computer or whatever and do it from there. They also can store a lot of pictures, so they're good for big events, or if you don't want to drain your phone battery by taking pictures constantly. And you're going to get to use both those kinds of cameras."
Kitty ran through the basics on how to use both, and then passed one of each to the students. "You've got a lot of different things to shoot here. Go nuts with the flowers, or take pictures of each other doing things, and if you just want to sit on the slide and take selfies, there will be no judgment. Just get a feel for things."
And there was Kitty at the front of the group with a box in her hands. "Hey, guys. Glad to see you're all teenagers today, and that's the last I'll mention of that. There's one thing that I can't believe I didn't get to when we were doing our first unit, and that's pictures. They're kind of popular these days, and you've probably had some exposure to them by now, even if it was just the photography booth at homecoming. It's a still frame of a moment or a peron or a thing that you want to capture. People take pictures for their weddings and parties, of scenery on vacation, or because you're having a good hair day and that warrants a selfie. Which, by the way, is a picture you take of yourself, in case you somehow hadn't heard that word by now. Most often now, people will take them with the camera app on your phone," she said, reaching into the box and picking up one of the phones they'd used at the start of the semester, "where you can upload them to social media, apply filters, whatever. But there are still some uses for digital cameras-" She pulled one of those out of the box, too. "-where you can move the pictures onto your computer or whatever and do it from there. They also can store a lot of pictures, so they're good for big events, or if you don't want to drain your phone battery by taking pictures constantly. And you're going to get to use both those kinds of cameras."
Kitty ran through the basics on how to use both, and then passed one of each to the students. "You've got a lot of different things to shoot here. Go nuts with the flowers, or take pictures of each other doing things, and if you just want to sit on the slide and take selfies, there will be no judgment. Just get a feel for things."
Re: Take pictures
The less time she spent thinking about this weekend, the better. While it was charming to be four (if a touch embarrassing), it was yet another reminder of how painful her childhood had been even before she'd gone to live with her father.