Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Blog #9
Since this is the last blog of the quarter, I think it is only fitting that I evaluate everything we have learned in this class. I know I will definitely use a lot of the same programs we used, in my business class. As I think back to the start of the quarter, I remember how intimidated I was with Photoshop, Publisher, and Movie Maker. Since, I had never used any of these programs before, I was a little nervous. I would have to say that Photoshop was the most interesting, and difficult aspect of this class. I love the way we were told to just use our imaginations, and explore all of the tools within the program. I can see now that becuase I was told to "try out" different techniques and tools that it made me learn how to use them. It also saved time in class, because instead of lecture that would cover all the tools and techniques we were able to explore some on our own. I will use that way of teaching the material to my students. I think there is something to be said when a teacher says "here is the assignment, and the sky's the limit."
I can also see myself down the road, using Publisher to make newsletters for my class or department. I think that is a great tool to keep parents involved and informed about what their child is doing. I like the idea of using it as a way to communicate with family members as well.
Movie Maker was also a big challenge for me. It took me a long time to find some video off the web to use in my project. Once I found a video on Hawaii Travel, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I had recently gone to Hawaii with my family and we had a ton of pictures. It took me a while to split the clips into sections I could use. Finally, I had a decent video that incorporated video along with pictures of similar places we visited on our trip. The music was also very hard to save to my computer. I had the music saved, but not as a file that would go into the video. It took me a while to import it and figure out what I was doing wrong. Finally, I finshed the video, and in the end it turned out pretty good. My family loved it! I learned a very good lesson at the completion of this project, which was to work off your hard drive!!! I will tell my future students to not work off of their jump drives. I had the toughest time getting everything to work. All in all this assignment was a thrill to complete! I will definitely use all of these programs in my class!
Since this is the last blog of the quarter, I think it is only fitting that I evaluate everything we have learned in this class. I know I will definitely use a lot of the same programs we used, in my business class. As I think back to the start of the quarter, I remember how intimidated I was with Photoshop, Publisher, and Movie Maker. Since, I had never used any of these programs before, I was a little nervous. I would have to say that Photoshop was the most interesting, and difficult aspect of this class. I love the way we were told to just use our imaginations, and explore all of the tools within the program. I can see now that becuase I was told to "try out" different techniques and tools that it made me learn how to use them. It also saved time in class, because instead of lecture that would cover all the tools and techniques we were able to explore some on our own. I will use that way of teaching the material to my students. I think there is something to be said when a teacher says "here is the assignment, and the sky's the limit."
I can also see myself down the road, using Publisher to make newsletters for my class or department. I think that is a great tool to keep parents involved and informed about what their child is doing. I like the idea of using it as a way to communicate with family members as well.
Movie Maker was also a big challenge for me. It took me a long time to find some video off the web to use in my project. Once I found a video on Hawaii Travel, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I had recently gone to Hawaii with my family and we had a ton of pictures. It took me a while to split the clips into sections I could use. Finally, I had a decent video that incorporated video along with pictures of similar places we visited on our trip. The music was also very hard to save to my computer. I had the music saved, but not as a file that would go into the video. It took me a while to import it and figure out what I was doing wrong. Finally, I finshed the video, and in the end it turned out pretty good. My family loved it! I learned a very good lesson at the completion of this project, which was to work off your hard drive!!! I will tell my future students to not work off of their jump drives. I had the toughest time getting everything to work. All in all this assignment was a thrill to complete! I will definitely use all of these programs in my class!
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