Making a website with Google!!

Can you believe it?
I built a website with Google!! It wasn't that hard ether. Google makes everything so simple for you. They are very user friendly!! I like the way I can connect all of the forms, and spreadsheets and presentations that I created earlier and put them in my website!! I know my instructor planned it all out like that, because she knew we were going to put it all together, but It still is so cool!! The Website just put all the "Cloud computing" parts in prospective. Everything can go together as well as making it all so simple.
My website is a fictitious school of the arts. In some ways I wish it wasn't fictitious because it sounds so very cool. The name of it is Georgetown School of the Arts. The website I created for it is: https://sites.google.com/site/artswheaton
check it out and see how several of my earlier blogs photo's were put into it!
I have really enjoyed this class and I plan to use these new found skill to set up a Family Reunion site or something. Besides for my personal use I feel all these skills should come in handy when I am able to achieve employment at some time in the future.
Have a great Summer!
Sherry

Sumo Paint: Photo Enhancemant

Hi everyone!!

I LOVE SUMO PAINT PHOTO ENHANCEMENT!!! I had a really great time with working with sumo. I love all the options on how to make it look the way you want, and to be able to layer images to when you are working on one level you don't mess up the others if you make a mistake. On one image when I was putting color to it by erasing it, I thought I did a great job with the eraser, until I put a spot light effect on it. It showed all my flaws!! luckily I could touch it up a little still. The fetcher that I really learned to love was the Clone Stamp!! and the eye dropper so I could paint the color I want to. Those two really made a big difference when it comes to covering up what you don't want in the photos!! One image I did actually looked better in the negative, and then I enhanced it with other stuff. Most of the photos turned out really good. I can't wait until I work on my own photos!! I tried the PhotoFunia, I think you will find it cute. The wanted poster!! while on vacation we paid about $45 for my kids to be put on a wanted poster, and here I did it all for free!! And I didn't have to change into some old time clothes!!! Once again I really enjoyed this weeks assignments! enjoy the photos.

Sherry

Sumo Paint Basics

Hi again,

I tried Sump Paint this week. I took me a bit to get the hang of it. I had some trouble trying to fix what I didn't like. Sometimes I would use "edit" and "undo" and it would work, other times it wouldn't. Then I would hit "clear" and that got me to ground zero. Working with different layers can be tricky, but I think it will be helpful when blending different photos together. I am glad to be having trouble with images that are not a major project for me. It helps me learn what to do with less stress.

The Different ways to manipulate the images is really cool. I don't think I can do all that with other programs I have worked with. So All in all I do like Sumo, I just have to keep practicing to get good at it.
Here are some images I created. Let me know how you liked them!

Sherry

Google Docs Slideshow Presentations

Hi everyone,
I like collaborating with the sideshow presentations. It was nice not to have to look for all the photo's and setting up all the words myself. splitting up the work was a time saver. It was also nice to have someone to bounce off ideas off of. Some of the dislikes is not knowing what actually is the "Normal" font. there is not a lot of selection. and the toolbar is quite different from the toolbar I am used to on my hard drive computer.
I liked using the "incremental reveal" to show gradually what information is on each slide. that was cool, but sometimes time consuming trying to decide what order to put everything in.
It is fun to try.
Sherry

Creating Forms, ex. school registration forms

Creating a School Registration Form was so cool!!! No complicated process to figure out, and it took only minutes!! I saw the movie Accepted and in the movie on kid created a website of a fictious school and had on it "registration is only a click away." Now I know how it can be done and so quickley!! Wahoo!
But ofcourse, I am not going to create a fictious school, But there are so many other uses I can creat forms for. I can do something with my Yearly Family Reunion!! Find out how many People are comming, and from where! How many kids will be there and what kind of games they would like to play, or have available.
So many possibilitys!!
I really wasn't sure if I would be able to use most of the skills I am learning in this Cloud computing class, but now, I see that I don't have to have a Job (though it would be nice) to uses these skills frequently.
Have a Great Day!
Sherry
Hay mom, Look what I can Do!!

Spreasdheet Blog Posting

Second time's a charm!!
I did my second Spreadsheet assignment, and I had even more fun. Between the both of them though I learned that I can "Sort" the Data info on each line!!  I can change the line up on which line if first depending on what heading I want to promote or draw attention to. The only other thing That I have sorted was the "works Cite" pages of my research papers. Oh, maybe some other things when I learned about Access, But I don't recall sorting spreadsheets.  The first instructions were clear, but for some reason I just was going through the motions of the instructions, then when I had to do it again on the second spreadsheet the instructions were less, it helped me comprehend what I was doing, or I suppose, to do what I was meant to do in the first spreadsheet. I had to go back and correct the first one.And Then It All Clicked!! speaking of corrections, when I did have mistakes and the numbers didn't come out the way they should have, It was so easy to click "Show Formula" and find where I went wrong, then it took only a minute to fix it. and then everything around it adjusted to it.

I do love Spreadsheets!!

Sherry

Spreasdheet Apps with Google

Hi,
I just completed my Spreadsheet assignments with Google for my Cloud Computing class. I still love Spreadsheets!!! It may be different when copying data to make a chart, but I think it is a cool formula to get around the differences from making charts on the regular spreadsheets and google spreadsheets.
Even though there are differences I had fun. I like it and I do not have any habits formed yet so I did not find things any more difficult to work with than other ways.
It just tickles me every time I plug in a formula and pull down or to the right and it all gets filled in with the right numbers and I don't even have to touch a calculator!!! Wahoo!!
I absolutely love Spreadsheets.!!!
Have a Great Day!!
Sherry
Look at that!!