Digital works!!!!

In high school I was lucky enough to take what the english department called a video journalism class. In this class we worked on making videos using I-movie. The final project was to make a video year book with was later burned onto dvd, and sold to the senior class.

Ever since I have been obsessed with photography and video. This in turn lead into a fascination for digital story telling. I have since discovered that Mac computers aren't the only ones that allow you to create such masterpieces. The PC counterparts of Photostory 3 and Moviemaker are just as great and equally user friendly.



Today I had the honor of teaching the class a lesson on how to use Movie Maker. A concept that really excited me. I definitely wanted to do my best and show off how great these programs can be both for personal use and in the classroom.

Tuesday as a thursday

Thank goodness that we had a slow paced class today, especially after the day I've had ( spending a total of 3 hours in the health center trying to figure out what's wrong with my throat.)
I enjoyed working on my wiki and fully concentrating on it. I learned how to change the "look and feel" of the page, as well as posted some links that I like and a picture that i found to the home page. I had fun playing around with it, and I think that it's starting to look like a "real" wiki.

http://mlb-lesson-plans.wikispaces.com/

Wiki, Smartboard -> Sketch Up

Multitask, multitask, multitask...

Granted it's a 3 hour class and there's a million aspects of technology to cover, some strategies don't work very well. It seemed like by the time I figured out how to use wiki, and found a one to post, it was time to move on to the next activity... by the time i finally understood what was needed to make a chair on sketch up, it was time to move onto smart boards before I even got to finish forming my legs.
This multitask/ task rotation method may work as a review strategy; However I don't see it as effective in the learning process. Maybe it's just me, I've always been an easily distracted person and even dealt with ADHD as a kid, so maybe this method works for others but surely not for me.
I did enjoy learning about Wiki's today and looking through some of the educational ones. Its amazing how much educational potential some tools have that you wouldn't regularly think of. It seems that when you think of the internet, skype, Twitter, and Blogger, the last thing on your mind is class room application. So I definitely appreciate the different view that I'm getting on the use of these online tools.

As always; Keep it fresh:
Andrea 2.0