Excited!!!

This is about the way I've felt for this course.

I don't know if it was just me. the excitement just wasn't there.

LP7

For this assignment I didn't use Dragon speaking. I used was the Speech Recognition in Windows 7. It works the same as Dragon. I found that the word recognition was not very accurate, making it a time intensive program to convert text to words. I had to back up and repeat many of the words. The commands for the program worked good, My words it had trouble getting correct. It might have been because I have a cold and the system didn't recognize the words a well as when I taught the computer my voice pattern. Over all speech recognition probably will work after training the program longer as the program continues to learn the longer you use the software.

The OCR with Acrobat Pro was more interesting taking a PDF file and creating a Word document editing the document, returning the document to a PDF file that you can send out and have the document completed and returned. It took a few tries to get the PDF changed to a Word file, then edit and correct the document and saved again to the PDF I was able to send and get the file returned. What I used was the Adobe Acrobat X Pro free trial version it is a little different than the version at MPTC but does the same conversion. The new version lets you change the initial PDF file right in Adobe without converting it to a Word Document first. This made it somewhat hard to follow the Lesson plan. You just have to adapt.

Embed a video clip related to recognition technology. Top video is how speech recognition works and the bottom video is how I would like speech recognition to work.

I just made a new Voki. See it here: LP6

Setting up the avatar was simple. I don't know what I'll use it for but it was fun finding and adapting the image I wanted to use.

LP4

I don't text or send photos via my cell phone.
So,why would I care about sending text or photos from my cell phone to the blog?

Photo upload

This photo is a copy of the original. A photo of a computer classroom.

This is the computer classroom with the color lightened to be used as a background in a Word document or Powerpoint presentation.

This photo is of my sons dog Gauge.

This is my sons dog Gauge after the photo was cropped with a heart shape cookie cutter, text was added to the photo (in this example the text is rather small),and the remaining background filled with brown color to give the photo contrast.

My strengths with Photoshop are that once I use a program a few times and understand what the program does I can catch onto it fairly quickly with some trial and error.

My weakness are after I learn a program such as Photoshop and if I do not use it on a regular basis I forget quite rapidly how the program works and have to start over again. Repetition and usage is the answer. If I spent all my time using the programs I have learn in class no school work would get done.

April 5. 2011

Hard day in class. Had to use the tablet PC to take notes with one-note. I'm not great at taking notes with a pen and paper, yet with a tablet and stylus to write on. I had lot's of trouble writing with the stylus and the button on it. I kept pressing the button causing the drop down box to appear. That gave me fits while writing.Once I got that cleared up writing wasn't to bad other than my notes are a little hard to read. Not everything is clear enough to read.

This is my son's dog named Gauge, he is a boxer.
The photo was cropped with heart shape text was entered into the photo, the background was filled brown color to give the photo contrast. The editing was done using Photoshop Elements 5.0