Google SketchUp Basics

John Hendron, Goochland County Public Schools with Bea Cantor
Check out his blog, http://johnhendron.net/ for video tutorials and other information. Try http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/google-sketchup/ for SketchUp in particular.
SketchUp was designed for architects. Google bought the company because of Google Earth–use the program to build buildings and place them in Google Earth. Have people build the buildings.
Takes about [...]

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SHaZaMM: Creating Engagingly H.O.T. Comics & Graphic Novels

Bernajean Porter, http://www.digitales.us/
For workshops, spend 1/3 time on content not tools.
Kids need to have meaty content before they worry about packaging.
Most loved Comic Hero: Green Lantern, Spider-man (recent survey).
Every piece of work student does, they need to own work and make decisions and decide whether to take feedback from you or not.
Graphic Novels: written in [...]

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