Try and use your blog as a working journal over the next 4 to 5 months. If you find useful sites that help you in your research or find useful videos then you can add links into your blogs to show what you've been looking at.
Share your posts with each other and get used to commenting and offering advice.
Document your observations and as well as editing with Photoshop try and find what other editing tools are out there for free. For example- free dowload for PHOTOSCAPE which is a quick way to edit and add some clean effects, especially if you don't have Photoshop at home. ( once again- if you find new tools- share the info!!!)
Another cool bit of editing free stuff can be found on PIXLR which is an online editing site which also has a cool online vintage effects area which is addictive once you start using it.


Many of you are starting to explore the use of video and animated GIFS in your work. This is hard to present in your books  and the BLOG is the perfect place to showcase small file size versions  of your motion graphics.


Try creating GIFS on Photoshop ( search the web for tutorials) There are loads of sites which create animations for you- if you've downloaded Photoscape you'll notice there is an animation area on there.