7/7 - Monday - Everybody's an Internet Superstar!

Well, after a raucous Fourth of July, the Monday/Wednesday class settle in for some nice relaxing web-design. Usually people don't really associate making websites with being relaxing, but using Google Page Creator made the whole thing a breeze!

Tiaira

Jennifer

Jessica

Megan

Valentina

Michelle

7/3 - Thursday Comics

Today the Thursday class got to try their hand at making their own comics. Some of the kids got a little more inventive with their designs and decided to filter their images so that they actually look like comic drawings.




Check out the finished product!

7/2 - Wednesday Comics!

Today the PNG students finished up putting their Scavenger Hunt findings into a PowerPoint presentation. We'll take a look at those finished products next time and declare a winner!

The rest of the class was spent working on a Comic Strip project where the students use the skills they've learned so far in class to construct their own comic strip.

7/1 - Tuesday Traveling and Photo Hunting

Today was scavenger hunt day. After finishing up traveling brochures, the kids photoshopped themselves into their destinations. Either they were seen with the Eiffel tower, or overshadowing a building in madrid.

Once given cameras it was a race to the finish. Kids competed with each other to win the hunt.
The winners will be announced next class.

6/30 - Monday Travel & Scavenger Hunt

The kids finished up their travel brochures today! Here is a sample of students inserting themselves into photographs from around the world!

Then, they spent the rest of the day having a photo-scavenger hunt.The PNG Mentors give the students a list of clues and it's up to the students to figure out the clues, take a picture of the item indicated by the clue and then bring it back to the PNG lab and assemble a PowerPoint Slideshow of all the answers!

6/26 - Thursday World Travelers cont'd

This time it was too hot to go outside, but once again that didn't stop our Tuesday/Thursday PNG students from traveling the world thanks to the magical magic of the Internet! Magical!

Here are some of the destinations of our globetrotters:

Sam - Rio De Janeiro
Mario - San Francisco
Shannon - London
Joselyn - Tokyo, Japan
David R. - Paris, France
David A. - Madrid, Spain
Kyle - Beijing, China
Alex - New York, New York


Awesome!

6/25 - Wednesday World Travelers

It was a rainy day today, but the PNG kids were still able to travel the world thanks to the magic of the Internet! Magical!

Jet-setting for the weekend, the students found airfare, a hotel, entertainment and restaurants at their destination of choice.

These lucky globe trotters had 2 nights, 3 days and $10,000 (!!!). When they were finished they made a brochure showing the different places they went to and the things they did while they were there.

This is one of the biggest projects the PNG students have set out on, so it will be finished up next time.

In the meantime, I wouldn't be surprised if these kids came home with jet lag and complaining about the new checked baggage fee.

6/24 - Tuesday - Photoshop Collages cont'd

It's time to decide which class has the ultimate Photoshop skillz? The Monday/Wednesday class already posted their work, so check out the work of the Tuesday/Thursday class and judge for yourself!

Monday 6/23 - Photoshop Collage

The Monday class used the digital cameras to take photos of themselves and then used Photoshop to create collages and make crazy edits. Here's a look at some of their handy work. Some of these kids are becoming serious Photoshop experts!

Thursday 6/19 - Photo-tastic!

Cameras. It doesn't matter what else we did today because all anyone wanted to do today was play with the digital cameras.

I have to say that I'm pretty jealous of "these kids today". Back in my day, if you were lucky enough to get the camera from mom or dad you only got to take 2 or 3 pictures before they took it back from you said you were wasting film.

Now, these guys can snap away to their heart's content and delete whatever doesn't look good.

The kids took all kinds of pictures today and when they were finished they brought them into Photoshop Elements and did some crazy photo manipulation to them.

Wednesday 6/18 @ PNG

Today we all said hello to our newest Mentor, Chris!

In class the PNG students beefed up their typing skills. By the time the semester is over they're all going to be expert typers... if they can remember to stay on the homerow!

Next they looked up some information on their dream jobs. We found information on hotjobs.com and looked up statistics and information on what they wanted to do for a career. It was surprising to see that no one wants to be a marine biologist anymore. That seemed to be the career of choice for middle school kids back in my day. No one chose librarians either... interesting.
Next we played with an animation program called Pivot Man, a pretty simple but pretty cool little program that makes a little animated dude go crazy.

PNG Double Dose!

Today was the first day of PNG again, but this time for a whole new group of kids! We had such a demand for Project Next Generation that we split our students into two groups.

We had the first meeting of the Tuesday/Thursday group and we had a lot of fun.

It was another busy day and after the students introduced themselves we played Typershark, played an Internet search game, study our potential career paths :) and played around in Photoshop!

Not bad for the first day!

Summer Session Has Begun!

Project Next Generation at Elmwood Park Public Library has officially kicked off the Summer Session!

Demand for PNG was so high that we split into two classes!  This was the first meeting of our Monday/Wednesday class and we have so many students that some are actually sharing our brand new computers!

Today we introduced ourselves, warmed up our typing skills, took a tour of the Earth with Google Earth and generally just had a great time.

Sign Up for the Summer!

A new session of Project Next Generation will start at the Elmwood Park Public Library on Tuesday June 17th! ! Sign-up now and you will be able to learn all kinds of cool things about computers, photography and video editing.

PNG will meet every Tuesday and Thursday from 11am until 1pm. Just in time for you to head over to the pool and spend the rest of your afternoon enjoying the sunshine.

PNG will also be available to 5th graders this summer! For more information please stop by the Youth Services desk on the second floor of the library. You can also call us at 708.395.1236 or e-mail us at png.eppl(at)gmail.com.

We hope to see you this summer!

New PNG Session March 17th!

Project Next Generation @ Elmwood Park Public Library

• 6th, 7th & 8th Graders
  
• March 17th - May 7th
• Mondays & Wednesdays
• 4pm-6pm
• Sign ups @ Youth Services Desk
  

Elmwood Park Public Library is proud to announce a new session of Project Next Generation!

The after-school "computer class for young adults" will meet Monday March 17th from 4pm-6pm and will continue every Monday and Wednesday until May 7th.

If you are in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade we hope you will join us. The program is free and students will be treated to an after school snack in addition to all the other cool stuff that they will be learning and creating in class.

PNG students can look forward to:

• - Learning Photoshop
• - Using Video Cameras
• - Using Digital Cameras
• - Learning Microsoft Office
• - Internet/Web2.0 applications
• ...and much more!
  

Sign up at the Youth Services Desk at the Elmwood Park Public Library. Only 10 spots are available so act now!

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Photoshopping today!
some of the creations involve

made by David r

PNG @ EPPL-- 11/12/07

Diorama!
Today we made replicas of houses using the program Design-o-rama.
After printing the creations and folding them to model real rooms of a house, the students found out the winner of the scavenger hunt. Well done Brady!

PNG @ EPPL-- 11/08/07

Students created their own email addresses today.
In addition to emails we further explored the uses of photoshop.

PNG @ EPPL-- 11/05/07

We gathered up all the photos from the scavenger hunt and made them into a slide show. Afterwards students took a picture and warped it using photoshop.

PNG @ EPPL 10-01-2007

We learned how to use photoshop today!