This week has been a rough week at school. I have dropped my failure rate by 40% in the last three days and am exhausted. I told my husband that I needed this weekend to catch up on my Master's classes. Now that the last student has left my classroom, Audacity is done, I know get to look at video's. I love teacher tube, because it allows me to find videos that I can use in my classroom that are appropriate and remind me of my childhood growing up in classes.
I am originally certified in ACSI with 6-12 in English, History, and Bible. For me, teaching English is only as fun as when it can be taught in context. History by far is a love in my life, and this video is one that can be used to build cross-curricular lessons with English and History. History for the content and English for the Rap.
Enjoy!
This is a great one that would help U.S. History in 8th grade.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Audacity
I love Audacity and have used in before, so this assignment was rather easy for me. The harderst part for me was finding music that went with my audio to help incorporate it into my Glog.
I know that for some people, it is weird hearing your own voice, and that was something, I just had to get over so that I could do the project and to be able to present it to my classes. While it might sound weird to me, my students hear it all the time.
We are required in our district to be using technology with our students each semester and last semester I had students use Audacity to create a horror story and go through the elements that a horror story has. My students enjoyed this project, except when it came to Audacity not wanting to reopen correctly. We decided instead to just read them to the class, and scrap the project due to time.
I liek the fact that I work in a district that is so open to technology, but on the other hand, I feel like it eats up so much of my time to teach the concept, use the technology, and trouble shoot, when the time just isn't available. I am working harder this year in making it more adaptable and easy to merge into my class. I love this class and all that I am learning.
I know that for some people, it is weird hearing your own voice, and that was something, I just had to get over so that I could do the project and to be able to present it to my classes. While it might sound weird to me, my students hear it all the time.
We are required in our district to be using technology with our students each semester and last semester I had students use Audacity to create a horror story and go through the elements that a horror story has. My students enjoyed this project, except when it came to Audacity not wanting to reopen correctly. We decided instead to just read them to the class, and scrap the project due to time.
I liek the fact that I work in a district that is so open to technology, but on the other hand, I feel like it eats up so much of my time to teach the concept, use the technology, and trouble shoot, when the time just isn't available. I am working harder this year in making it more adaptable and easy to merge into my class. I love this class and all that I am learning.
Friday, February 19, 2010
Venting and Animation Frustration
I loved using Alice to create my animation, but I do have to admit, getting it to export the video has been very frustrating. I did do a Jing of it, and followed all of the advice that I have been given, but it still won't create a video. It seems to not want to go after my video/sound. Is anyone else having this issue.
I have downloaded all that it says to download and then am still working on the other tasks, but I feel like everytime I go to Export Video, it hates me. Yes, I know computers don't have feelings and can't portray hatred, but it make me frutrated.
On a good note, I do know how to use Audacity and created my scrpit, again, I am aftraid of things being longer than the amount, but I used it for a project in my classroom. I also was able to teach my kids the phrase, "Killing two birds with one stone."
Any advice would be welcomed, but also thanks for just letting me vent.
I have downloaded all that it says to download and then am still working on the other tasks, but I feel like everytime I go to Export Video, it hates me. Yes, I know computers don't have feelings and can't portray hatred, but it make me frutrated.
On a good note, I do know how to use Audacity and created my scrpit, again, I am aftraid of things being longer than the amount, but I used it for a project in my classroom. I also was able to teach my kids the phrase, "Killing two birds with one stone."
Any advice would be welcomed, but also thanks for just letting me vent.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Animation
I was scared by animation when I first saw that this would be a requirement for this class. After watching some of the video's on atomic learning, I just plain wanted to cry. Luckily, we had the option of www.alice.org. This was the most exciting part of animation for me.
Alice.org is a great program that allowed me to feel comfortable with animation. I am looking forward to playing with it a little bit longer and then allowing myself to go a little further to a more complex animation program.
I think that this program allowed me to know that animation isn't as hard as I thought that it would be and it was fun. I worked on this while I was visiting with my inlaws on our snow day, and my mother-in-law loved watching me create my animation because it was fun.
The hard part for me was limiting it to 5-10 seconds, which I still haven't done, because I want to keep adding more. I can definately see my students having fun with this program. The issue is more that I am unsure if we would be able to download the program on our student laptops. This will be a lot of talking to figure this out.
By the end of this, I think that I will be a lover of animation!
Alice.org is a great program that allowed me to feel comfortable with animation. I am looking forward to playing with it a little bit longer and then allowing myself to go a little further to a more complex animation program.
I think that this program allowed me to know that animation isn't as hard as I thought that it would be and it was fun. I worked on this while I was visiting with my inlaws on our snow day, and my mother-in-law loved watching me create my animation because it was fun.
The hard part for me was limiting it to 5-10 seconds, which I still haven't done, because I want to keep adding more. I can definately see my students having fun with this program. The issue is more that I am unsure if we would be able to download the program on our student laptops. This will be a lot of talking to figure this out.
By the end of this, I think that I will be a lover of animation!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Wikipedia
I think that the Richardson chapter was one of the hardest that I have had to read, because as an English teacher who does research, I don't recommend Wikipedia to my students. While there were some great arguments and a lot of information that I have doubled checked, the thought that people can just change an article, scares me as a teacher.
I think that as a whole Wiki's are a great addition to the Web 2.0 generation where there is a complete example of what collaboration is. I like the idea of having a class wiki where the students can collaborate on a full set of curriculum. I think as a teacher, this would be great for a school to have to produce an example of what it looks like to work in a open concept learning environment.
I have never participated in a Wiki before, but have had different trainings on it. I think that Richardson does a great job of presenting the concepts of Wiki's to allow for a teacher to make a well-informed decision. Overall, I like the concept of Wiki's in the world of education, but believe that if someone is doing research, Wikipedia cannot be the only source that they look at.
I think that as a whole Wiki's are a great addition to the Web 2.0 generation where there is a complete example of what collaboration is. I like the idea of having a class wiki where the students can collaborate on a full set of curriculum. I think as a teacher, this would be great for a school to have to produce an example of what it looks like to work in a open concept learning environment.
I have never participated in a Wiki before, but have had different trainings on it. I think that Richardson does a great job of presenting the concepts of Wiki's to allow for a teacher to make a well-informed decision. Overall, I like the concept of Wiki's in the world of education, but believe that if someone is doing research, Wikipedia cannot be the only source that they look at.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
TeleParent--Jing--Take 2
Sound wasn't working on the first one. Here is the one with sound!
Hope you enjoyed!
Hope you enjoyed!
TeleParent-Jing Video
Here is my first Jing Video. In Irving, we have a great program called TeleParent that is an automated calling center for us. Here is my description:
Hope this worked!
Hope this worked!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Jing-Bonus Bank #1: Glogster: Still Shots
I have to admit that Jing scared me a little bit when it was introduced on Saturday, but I am seeing it more and more as a great resource. To help explain Glogster to everyone, I am going to practice with Jing to capture some screen shots. I am still working on how to get the video worked, so this will be my first shot at it, hopefully it works.
Glogster is an online posterboard that students can use for a presentation in class.
The best part about it is that the students can link to each other and then be able to comment on one anothers. I love glogster and it was so easy to use Jing on this to be able to show you guys what I have been talking about in the past.
Glogster is an online posterboard that students can use for a presentation in class.
The best part about it is that the students can link to each other and then be able to comment on one anothers. I love glogster and it was so easy to use Jing on this to be able to show you guys what I have been talking about in the past.
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