Greenbush MSTLA

SketchUp – Wrap up house project
• CB Model Pro – Creating Spaceship or Light 3D model
• Second Life – Greenbush Grid, Navigating and Building

SketchUp
Wrap up House project and upload to Google 3D Warehouse. To prepare your house for the 3D warehouse follow the directions below:

1. In SketchUp click on File – Export – 3D Model and save the file
2. Take a screenshot of your house by using the keyboard shortcut keys Apple/Shift/4. Drag the cursor to select the part of your house for a screenshot
3. Open iPhoto and click on File – Import
4. Locate your screenshot on the desktop (most likely called Picture 1)
5. Click on File – Export
6. Select File Export
7. Select JPEG from the Kind drop down menu
8. Select Small as the Size
9. Click on Export and save the file to your desktop as your name_thumbnail (ex. Kylie_thumbnail)

Add your project to the MSTLA Collection by using the login information below:

1. Go to http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse
2. Login with Username: mstlagreenbush@gmail.com and Password: mstla2008
3. Click on Upload in the upper right hand corner
4. Browse for the file of your model
5. Browse for the file of your thumbnail
6. Title your file with your first name and school name (i.e. Joe @ Pittsburg Middle School)
7. Describe your house in the description box including what features you added that are environmentally friendly
8. Visit the collection at: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=04563380461504925067

CB Model Pro
Select one of the build options below when you have completed your house and uploaded it to the 3D Warehouse. The following objects can be viewed at the MSTLA Blog: http://gbtechnologyacademy.edublogs.org/.

• A Cone to a Lamp
• A Cylinder to a Spaceship
• Fine Objects

Second Life (GreenbushGrid)
We will rotate through to Room 2 to work on the new Second Life Greenbush Grid:

• Navigating
• Communicating
• Building

• Google Earth – Placing multimedia into Placemarkers
• SketchUp – Wrap up house project
• CB Model Pro – Creating 3D models

Google Earth Placemarkers and KMZ Files Example

Viewing the Extreme Series Placemarkers

1. Visit http://earth.google.com/gallery/
2. Search by keyword: “extreme” for the Extreme Series
3. Click on “Open in Google Earth” to view the placemarkers

Creating Your Own Placemarkers Folder

1. Start your project by creating a new “Folder” in the Google Earth “My Places” sidebar. Click on “Add/Folder” in the top menu. Name the folder based on your collection of resources.
2. Select the Placemark tool in Google Earth and anchor the location of each of the photos in your Earth file.
3. In the “Description” box that pops up with each new Placemark, name the Placemark with the location. Include the image in the Placemark Description box by typing in the simple html image code from the handout.
4. To locate the image information follow the steps below:
   1. Right-click or control-click on image to “view image”
   1. Copy and paste the web address into the html code
   1. Right click on the image and click on properties to view the height and width
5. Add streaming videos or audio files by finding the media online and click to Stream. As it streams, right-click (control-click for Macs) and then click properties and copy location to paste into the placemark description box.
6. Post audio files and podcasts with your placemark. Copy the location of the streaming audio from the properties window or from the URL and paste it with the placemark description.
7. Build out several more Placemarks and then highlight your new Folder by clicking once. In the top Earth menu choose (File/Save/Save Place as) “kmz” to share with others.

Basic HTML Code
You can add basic HTML code to the Placemarkers to modify the text.

Bold: <b> <b>Text</b>
Italics: <i> <i>Text</i>
Underline: <u> <u>Text</u>
Color: <font color = red>
<font color = #3300FF”>
<font color=red>Text</font>
<font color=”#3300FF”>Text</font>
white, red, maroon, pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, navy, purple, gray, black.
Or
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp.
Alignment: <center>Text</center>
<palign=”center>Text</p>
<p align=”right”>Text</p>
<p align=”left”>Text</p>
Line break: <br>
The repeated code <br><br> will skip a line. Because of the difficulty in indenting, blank lines are used to indicate new paragraphs in HTML.

Your Task

1. Locate four unique locations in Google Earth that are associated
2. Locate images for each location on the Internet and descriptions
3. Locate two streaming videos from United Streaming to include placemarkers
4. Create 4 placemarkers with the above information

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SketchUp
Wrap up House project and upload to Google 3D Warehouse. To prepare your house for the 3D warehouse follow the directions below:

1. In SketchUp click on File – Export – 3D Model and save the file
2. Take a screenshot of your house by using the keyboard shortcut keys Apple/Shift/4. Drag the cursor to select the part of your house for a screenshot
3. Open iPhoto and click on File – Import
4. Locate your screenshot on the desktop (most likely called Picture 1)
5. Click on File – Export
6. Select File Export
7. Select JPEG from the Kind drop down menu
8. Select Small as the Size
9. Click on Export and save the file to your desktop as your name_thumbnail (ex. Kylie_thumbnail)

Add your project to the MSTLA Collection by using the login information below:

1. Go to http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse
2. Login with Username: mstlagreenbush@gmail.com and Password: mstla2008
3. Click on Upload in the upper right hand corner
4. Browse for the file of your model
5. Browse for the file of your thumbnail
6. Title your file with your first name and school name (i.e. Joe @ Pittsburg Middle School)
7. Describe your house in the description box including what features you added that are environmentally friendly
8. Visit the collection at: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=04563380461504925067

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CB Model Pro
CB Model Pro is a free 3D content creation tool. During this months session we will learn how to use CB Model Pro to create 3 dimensional objects.

• Introduction to CB Model Pro:
• Training Videos: http://s101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/TMeeks/CB%20Model%20Pro/
• Build Ideas: http://cbmodelprofans.blogspot.com/
• Exploration with CB Model Pro

Warm-Up Activity
Creating an RSS feed for your blog with www.feedburner.com
1. Go to www.feedburner.com
2. Copy and Paste your blog address into feed
3. Create an account
4. Share your feed with others

Google Earth
1. Introduction to Google Earth (Free download at www.google.com/earth)
2. Exploring 3D buildings and places of interest
3. Connecting the Middle School Leadership Academy (MSTLA) Schools
4. Free Exploration (30 minutes)
5. Introduction to Google Earth Activity

Lunch Break

Google SketchUp
1. Introduction to rotating objects
2. Continue work on house project

Next Session Assignment
1. Locate an interesting building, town, or landform in Google Earth. Post the location to your blog.

Click Here to Download March Activity Information

We are looking forward to the February session for MSTLA. Below is the agenda and feel free to click on the Activity Links in the links bar above to view directions and resources.

• Blog Review
  • Review tasks that are due this session (audio recording or new Slide)
• SketchUp Activity
  • Introduction to SketchUp and Exploration
  • Brainstorm for SketchUp activity and begin activity
• Lunch Break
• Edusim Activity
  • Review activity requirements
  • Begin adding resources into world
  • Introduce Edusim Ning Network

March Task: Show a teacher or administrator Google SketchUp and discuss how it could be used in school. Post a response on your blog that contains (1) what they thought and (2) an idea for using SketchUp in the classroom.

Some students have already created their 10 image slides on topics their studying in school for the February session and they are turning out great! Checkout a couple below that your fellow students have already created:

Simple Machines

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Geometric Shapes

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In January the GB Middle School Technology Leadership Academy (MSTLA) explored blogging and students created their own blog at blogger.com. It is important to remember to follow good blog rules when posting messages, such as do not include personal information such as full name, phone number, home address, etc. Below is a list of the latest blogs from students:

• amberlady05.blogspot.com
  
• robdued.blogspot.com
• trevorsblog15.blogspot.com
• alexasblogalexa-alexa.blogspot.com
• cherrypieusa.blogspot.com
  
• downtownfrancis.blogspot.com
• monetbedell.blogspot.com
• invaderalec.blogspot.com
• watova.blogspot.com
• misarules.blogspot.com
• cloninger.blogspot.com
• mclovin-andrew.blogspot.com
• pigsonfire.blogspot.com
• kanga-rhue.blogspot.com
• 12joduling.blogspot.com
• kenzieheatherly.blogspot.com

In addition, we worked on the Edusim lessons and located online resources for the lesson plans you are currently developing a 3D world for. We’ll continue working on these during the next meeting.

January Tasks: Remember to complete January’s task before our February meeting. You either should create an Evoca audio recording for your blog or a Slide with 10 pictures of a topic you are currently studying in school.