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Welcome to the Alabama/Ohio artist collaboration wiki
This page has been created to help communication between the students at Fairview High School in Fariview Park, Ohio and those at Spain Park High School in Hoover, Alabama. This is an educational endeavor conducted jointly by the two teachers envolved, Erik Myers at Spain Park, and Chris Kaminski at Fairview HS. While the final outcome of this work is yet to be seen we hope that it leads to further interest in the subject by the students as well as an education for all envolved in how to use technology to enhance the curriculm in our classe and facilitate collaborations.

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 * How to use the tools found here**

The teacher at [|Fairview High School] is **Mr. Kaminski** He currently teaches Graphic Arts, Photography, and Web Design. Below are some of the links to the web-sites his classes use: [|Class Blog] [|Podcast Directory] [|Student art from Fairview students]
 * __INTRODUCTIONS__**

The students names that will be participating: 1. Kristen 2. Jared 3. Angela 4. Morgan These students were as well chosen for their self-motivated and fearless exploitation of the photograph.

The teacher at [|Spain Park High School] is **Mr. Myers** He currently teachers Digital Photography I and II and is the department chair. Below are some of the links to the web-sites his classes use [|Spain Park's daily photo blog] [|SPHS student galleries] [|Mr. Myers personal photography on Buzznet]

The students chosen to participate in this collaboration from Spain Park are all second year photograph students. They are, **Caitlin**, **Franklin**, **Sean**, **Joshua** and **Neil**. These students were chosen for their interest in the subjects of art and photography, their experience level with Photoshop and because they are self-motivated, independent workers.

For our first inroductory collaboration I would like each of the students envolved to choose five or more images that describe their interests, community, environment, etc. These images should be photographed by the students but do not need to be overly artistic. Just visual information that you want to share with the rest of the group. The chosen images should be uploaded to a collaborative photoblog that I have set up for this use. http://www.fotix.net/ Username: **alabama_ohio** Password: **colaborate** (note that it is misspelled -DOH!) Here is a link to the actual photoblog at fotix - http://www.alabama_ohio.fotix.net/ In this photoblog you can, when uploading your image, give it a title and a description as well as lable it with a catagory. I have created catagories for myself and my students. This way we can organize the content by contributor. First resize your image to **72ppi**, I usually saze my images at 12" on the long side at 72ppi. **SAVE YOUR IMAGE AS A DIFFERENT NAME**! Do not overwrite your original image. Save your image as a jpg with good quality. When you view the blog you can contribute comments on the images. //***Please be awhere that you are contributing to an educational blog/wiki and school appropriate subjects and language are required at all times. This includes the written and visual content contributed to the group. Photography comments will not be moderated so please use curtacy and common sense when leaving feedback, or writing descriptions for images.**//
 * FIRST PROJECT**
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I would like for the students to have this first intoductory portion of the collaboration done by **November 28th**. Hopefully everyone can get some images during their Thanksgiving holiday. After we all get to know one another I would like the students from the two schools to choose a partner (from the other school) to collaborate with. You can disscuss this through the discussion area or perhaps we can have a Skype meeting and say hello. Hopefully if all goes well, you will get to work with several different students.

Later collaborations may include:
 * art swaps**, where partnered students will work together to creat digital collages.
 * group swaps**, where student from a school will alter or edit an image supplied by the other school. These images would then be swaped and edited further.
 * subject/techniques investigations**, where students all photograph a given subject or technique and then critiqued as a group to learn more about how individual artists interpret the subject or use a technique.
 * other**, hopefully this work will evolve into other interesting of linking students throgh collaboration. If you have ideas on how to ehance these efforts please add them to this list.

http://www.mediamax.com/ This is 25g of online storage space for your unflattened high resolution images. You will be able to upload and download the images that you are working on togerher. Username: AlOhio Password: collaborate