Spring term over; Summer Term begins!

Whoa. What a semester. Had a really good term, except when my appendix ruptured on the very day I was supposed to fly to Greece to see my daughter on Spring break. Teaching SUMO right before PowerPoint was a complete success! Students loved it. I modified a SUMO handout I had for the CLOUD class and posted it for the online INTRO students; we will try that for the first time this summer term.

Spring 2011 Cloud Class begins!

Spring classes begin this week. Exciting! I finally finished getting my classes together the day before classes began. The most exciting thing was that I decided to add SUMO to the cloud class, so I was busy creating two new SUMO assignments.

The first SUMO assignment uses the painting and shapes tools to create backgrounds for presentations and advertising signs.

The second assignment uses SUMO to enhance photographs. I think the students will really enjoy this wonderful, free graphics software. Plus, it will introduce them to graphics so they can pursue it further if they find they enjoy it. They may then become interested in taking our Intro to Computer Graphics class, which will be great. SUMO is amazing!