Sunday Morning in Paris!

Here's a short iStory on our Visit to the Louvre this morning!

Off to the Louvre

A group of us are off to the Louvre, early on sunday morning.....I'll try to have some pics for you later today....photos seem to be too big...check out some of the student blogs for some photos.....perfect weather for photos and tourism......au revoir

Planes, Coaches and Metros

After a long trip, starting from CAS 420 to Paris, we safely made it to France at 8: 30 Friday morning. Even though everyone was quite tired, we were still excited about being in Paris together.

After a quick break at the hotel, we walked to Bercy Village to enjoy some frittes and Vin Rouge with Natalie, our EF Tour Guide. The students walked around and had lunch at Frog Pub in one of the many restaurants in the area. There's a pic of the nice pastries available in one of the shops.

We then got a quick lesson in the Metro Ettiquette, from Ms Natalie, make sure you get on quickly and stay together at the stops....we don't want to lose anyone in the Metro!

We walked around Paris and saw some of the sites, the Modern Architecture of the Pompidou Center set in a historic district and the stained glass windows of St Eustache on the Right Bank of Paris. Modeled on Notre Dame, it was built between 1532 and 1754. Cardinal Richelieu was baptised here and Moliere had his funeral here. It also hosted the First Communion of King Louis IV....whose home we will to visit today.....

We seem to be feeling better this morning after a good night's sleep and look forward to our visit to Versaille and Notre Dame. I hope Paris is ready for a visit from the students at Kean University........The bus is leaving soon, so I better get some croisants and cafe...a nice big cup....Au Revoir for now.....scott

Publish to .Mac Account

Sign up for a free 60 day account at .mac using your iWeb application on your mac. Here's the web address to my page. Send me a link when you sign up! You can post your photos and iStory's to your site. There's a link over on the right side of the page. Here's the address....copy and place into your broswer.

http://web.mac.com/scott_mchugh/iWeb/Paris%20iStory/Welcome.html

French History!

Here's a short video about the history of France. It's good to know something about a Country when you visit. Enjoy! Thanks to Laurie Troutman for doing the VO.

Your First Paris Digital Story!

It's now time to start putting your Paris Digital Story (60-90 secs) together.
You should be in the process of acquiring the following materials .

• Voice Over (VO) Script (adapt your 1 page post)
  
• Images saved on USB Drive or CD-R
• Music Bed (please email me if you need this, I have some nice Paris songs available in CAS 420)
  

When you are finished, we will post your Digital Story to YouTube or another Internet Video Space and link them to our blogs. Nadia posted her's to YouTube and I've embedded it here for all to see!

Creating an iStory: New Assignment

I've enjoyed reading your one page commentary on the Paris Travel Learn. Your next assignment is to create a 60 sec iStory based on your one page commentary. To create your iStory, you will need to obtain 12-15 still images (you can obtain from google images*) or and rewrite your paper for a visual presentation. You will also include background music and a VoiceOver (VO) to go along with your still images. Don't worry, I will help all of you with producing your iStory's, especially those who have limited media production experience. I will be available on Wednesday's between 12:30 and 3:20 in CAS 420 to assist any students.

*This assignment is for Educational uses only, providing us with the Fair Use Exception to Coypyright, that is why we will use images from google or other Internet search engines.