Workshops: Wednesday, January 25th
Macworld | iWorld’s Workshops offers you a full-day of immersive learning on some of today’s hottest Apple technology applications and software.
*Full Day Workshops are available for purchase at an additional fee.
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10:00 am – 5:00 pm
WA: Presentation Magic with Keynote
Les Posen, Chief Magician, Presentation Magic
WB: The Passionate Photographer: 10 Steps To Becoming Great
Steve Simon, Documentary Photographer, stevesimonphoto.com
WC: Mac OS X Automation
Ben Waldie, President, Automated Workflows, LLC
WD: Telling Your Story in iLife
Richard Harrington, CEO, RHED Pixels
WE: Troubleshooting OS X Lion
Russell Poucher, CEO & Sr Systems Engineer, Creative Resources Technology Group, Inc.
WF: Educators @ Macworld | iWorld
CUE Educators: Kyle Brumbaugh, Joseph Bustillos, Jon Corippo, Nicole Dalesio, Wendy Gorton, Mark Hammons, Lisa Highfill, Diane Main, Robert Pronovost, Matthew Purcell, Danny Silva
Special Guest: Peter H. Reynolds, NY Times best-selling author/illustrator and founder of FableVision
WI: Speak to me O Muse: Adobe’s MUSE [code name]: Web Design for Designers
Andrew Shalat, Designer, Writer, Author, ShalatDesign
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
WA: Presentation Magic with Keynote
Les Posen, Chief Magician, Presentation Magic
Apple's Keynote is one of the most loved of Apple's professional and educational products. While it can be used very simply depending on the presenter's need, knowledge of presentation skills from both a design and neuroscience background will allow Keynote users to take their presentations to their next level, helping them make outstanding presentations.
This will be a fun, engaging and educative day where Les will do the walk and the talk. Attendees will leave, rushing to their Macs and iPads to make changes to their very next presentation.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who wishes to reach out to their audiences, whether live or via webcasts, and make a difference to how they learn. Prior knowledge of presentation software will help.
Attendees Will Learn:
The essence of making persuasive audience-oriented presentations, how the brain works when it comes to creating presentations, the power of Keynote to help the message delivery process, tricks and shortcuts to assist learning, Keynote features often overlooked, answers to many practical presentation issues, deconstruction of slides and presentations that work and don't work.
WB: The Passionate Photographer: 10 Steps To Becoming Great
Steve Simon, Documentary Photographer, stevesimonphoto.com
From the book of the same name, this workshop has revved up the passions of many a photographer. Steve Simon deconstructs the elements that make good photographers great; taking you to a higher level in your own photographic journey. Through this innovative 10-step process, you’ll be inspired to transform your passion into a unique personal vision. Steve will take you out of your comfort zone helping you determine what you want to say in your work while providing practical knowledge to translate your feelings into strong content.
Some of the concepts included in the 10 Steps: learning to trust your intuition and rid yourself of preconceptions that hold you back; finding direction and meaning in your work; mastering the technical, the importance of persistence and practice and the 10,000 hours theory, visual warm-up techniques, how to photograph people by establishing trust to gain access. We will look at ethics and overcoming photographic fears, recognizing your strengths and weaknesses as well as following your instincts and troubleshooting technical and practical issues.
Steve’s presentation combines humor and poignancy as he takes you on an inspirational journey through his personal, compelling projects. His presentation is full surprises and tips for balancing personal and more commercial work while pushing your photographic limits. This will be an intense and fun experience, providing you with a reinvigorated passion for your work and a clear and concise plan of action, maximizing your strengths and talents to move forward toward becoming a great photographer.
Who Should Attend?
Intermediate to advanced photographers
Attendees Will Learn:
Everything!
WC: Mac OS X Automation
Ben Waldie, President, Automated Workflows, LLC
With AppleScript, Automator, and Services in Mac OS X, there's more reason than ever before to begin automating time consuming and repetitive tasks. In this session, we'll explore the potential of each of these automation technologies, discuss their benefits, and see how you can use them to boost your productivity and efficiency. Join us as we dive right in, begin creating Automator workflows, building services, and writing some simple AppleScripts. Take time to finally learn how to take advantage of these unique technologies in a relaxed "learn-by-doing" class.
Who Should Attend?
Any Mac user interested in gaining productivity and efficiency will not want to miss this session.
Attendees Will Learn:
- What AppleScript, Automator, and Services are, how they work, and what they can do
- Benefits of these automation technologies
- How to construct an Automator workflow
- How to create and use Services in Mac OS X
- How to write some simple AppleScripts
- Differences between AppleScript and Automator
- Next steps and resources for continued learning
WD: Telling Your Story in iLife
Richard Harrington, CEO, RHED Pixels
Apple's iLife applications (and their iPad companions) are continuing to revolutionize the way people capture and share memories. With iPhoto you can organize and edit great photos. If you want video, nothing is easier than assembling your footage into a compelling story with iMovie. Learn how to create or edit your music and soundtrack with GarageBand. And when it comes time to publish your stuff, you've got great options built into all three apps as well as iWeb and iDVD.
Whether you're the family historian, a budding filmmaker, or a corporate marketing person, this workshop will focus on the core skills needed to capture, organize, enhance and publish great stuff. The workshop is taught by Richard Harrington, a video and photography expert who's also co-authored several official Apple books. Attendees of all experience levels will find this class both challenging and rewarding.
WE: Troubleshooting OS X Lion
Russell Poucher, CEO & Sr Systems Engineer, Creative Resources Technology Group, Inc.
Troubleshooting Mac OS X- We will introduce the most up-to-date methods used by our own Systems Engineers to keep your computers running efficiently and free from technical problems. We show you how to streamline your computer operations at unprecedented levels to minimize current and future desktop problems. Explore new software tools and applications as well as different aspects of repairs to keep systems in top performance. Learn new tips, tricks and other secret weapons that you can incorporate into your technical landscape. Discover new techniques that will help you immediately resolve some of your most perplexing desktop challenges.
Who Should Attend?
Beginner & Intermediate users
Attendees Will Learn:
Repairs, Tips, Tricks, Software Tools, Best Practices, New Features - Lion OS X 10.7
WF: Educators @ Macworld | iWorld
CUE Educators: Kyle Brumbaugh, Joseph Bustillos, Jon Corippo, Nicole Dalesio, Wendy Gorton, Mark Hammons, Lisa Highfill, Diane Main, Robert Pronovost, Matthew Purcell, Danny Silva
Special Guest: Peter H. Reynolds, NY Times best-selling author/illustrator and founder of FableVision
Come enjoy a day packed full of exciting, relevant tips, tricks, and ideas you can take back to your classrooms and schools. A diverse collection of Apple Distinguished Educators, Google Certified Teachers, and other education leaders from around the U.S. and the world will inspire you with how they're bringing technology tools into student learning experiences. You will come away with a fresh enthusiasm for trying new methods and pulling in tools you didn't realize you could use with your staff and learners. During 25-minute sessions throughout the day, each lead learner will share his or her expertise with the audience, while the rest of the speakers will be available throughout the day at a kind of Genius Bar for one-on-one or small group conversations nearby. Peter Reynolds will provide the closing keynote, sharing his work as an author, animator and leader in student creativity.
Featured faculty: Jon Corippo, Diane Main, Danny Silva, Mark Hammons
With presenters: Nicole Dalesio, Robert Pronovost, Wendy Gorton, Joseph Bustillos, Lisa Highfill, Kyle Brumbaugh, Matthew Purcell, Elizabeth Calhoon, Burt Lo, Carol Anne McGuire and Peter H. Reynolds.
10:00 - Introductions/Welcome (Diane Main, Mike Lawrence, Jon Corippo)
10:10 - Elizabeth Calhoon, Carol Anne McGuire: Multimedia Poetry Slam
10:40 - Jon Corippo: iMovie Advanced Tricks for All Users
11:15 - Mark Hammons: Transforming Mobile Music Production
11:45 - Nicole Dalesio & Lisa Highfill: iPhoneography
12:15 - Wendy Gorton: “The Real World” Photo Booth
12:40 PM - 1:25 PM - Lunch Break - Rockstars available in room for ‘Backstage Pass’ time...
1:30 - Joseph Bustillos: Mobile Technology Invasion in the Classroom
2:00 - Robert Pronovost: A Peek Inside Our Second Grade Classroom
2:30 - Kyle Brumbaugh & Danny Silva: Google Apps
3:05 - Matthew Purcell: Go Code Cadets! iOS Development
3:35 - Diane Main & Burt Lo: Garage Band Karaoke
4:05 - Peter Reynolds: Closing Keynote
About Peter....
Creativity champ, Peter H. Reynolds is a NY Times best-selling author/illustrator and founder of FableVision, an award-winning educational multi-media company co-located at the Boston Children’s Museum.
Published in over 20 languages, Peter's books The Dot, Ish, Rose's Garden, I'm Here, So Few of Me and The North Star inspire children and “grown up children” with his messages about authentic learning, creativity, bravery, empathy, and courageous self-expression. Peter also illustrated the best selling Someday by Alison McGhee, Guyku by Bob Raczka, Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, and the Judy Moody series by Megan McDonald, which sold over 12 million copies worldwide.
Peter lives in Dedham, MA, where he founded The Blue Bunny, a family-owned and operated children’s book, toy, creativity store.
Much of Peter's spare time is spent giving back to the community ~ revitalizing the businesses and landscape in his beloved Dedham Square, supporting schools, caring for homeless children, promoting literacy and learning, and inspiring all of us to use our gifts to make the journey a meaningful one.
To that end, Peter and his twin brother Paul, recently launched the Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning, and Creativity (TLC). The center is a not-for-profit organization that encourages creativity and innovation in teaching and learning. It is dedicated to ensuring that all learners develop the vision, confidence, knowledge and skills needed to move their own lives forward, and to use their talents, strengths and energy to move their communities and the world to a better place.
“I am optimistic about a future where all children are encouraged to navigate their true potential. We have to be creative in the ways we reach all learners — to help them find their voice, be brave about expressing it, and be inspired to use their gifts to ‘make their mark.’”
WI: Speak to me O Muse: Adobe’s MUSE [code name]: Web Design for Designers
Andrew Shalat, Designer, Writer, Author, ShalatDesign
There’s a reason why Graphic Designers consider Web Design something of a speciality, something more esoteric than just plain old Design. It’s a different animal. It has a whole different set of technical issues that have to be understood, and overcome. To the dismay of most Graphic Designers, people who are experts in page layout, in typography, in logo design and branding, to their dismay, Web Design has never been as accessible to their skills and talents as it should be. There’s all that code, all that geek speak, all that technical jargon that gets between a designer’s vision and the web’s reality. But Adobe’s new (beta software) MUSE is the "rst major step by the software powerhouse to overcome that divide. MUSE lets you create sound, viable, robust web sites, using a familiar model that most designers who know InDesign and Illustrator, will be able to make sense of. The use of code is minimal, or even non-existent, in the user interface. So you get pretty close to that original ideal of Desktop publishing, WYSIWYG.
This one-day seminar will give you more than just an introduction to the new software. It will give you a working facility with the tool, letting you understand and create well-DESIGNED sites within the span of one day. These sites can use jQuery, HTML5 and other contemporary and popular code functionality that if you used Dreamweaver, may take weeks to develop.
We will walk through the software from Planning to Design to Preview to Output, and at the end of the day, we will have created a fully functioning, HTML5 jQuery savvy, interactive and well designed website.
Who Should Attend?
Intermediate Graphic Design
Attendees Will Learn:
1. How to plan out and implement a viable website architecture
2. How to use Master Pages as templates for efficient design
3. How to import jQuery and embedding code into a MUSE site
4. Basic Design concerns to be aware of when Designing for the Web
5. How to use fonts on the web through MUSE
6. Add Contact forms
7. Implement HTML5 and jQuery widgets for interactivity, tabbed interface design and high-end image transitions for portfolio presentation on your site.
8. How to PLAN, DESIGN, PREVIEW and IMPLEMENT WEB DESIGN in record time.
Andrew Shalat teaches Advanced Web Design at Chapman University. He is the author of several books on Graphic Design, the Mac and online Video.