Microsoft Movie Maker

I did not get to see Rob's presentation, but I did get to look up information on his unit plan. I viewed a few short videos on Movie Maker to see what the program is about. To me this program seems relatively easy to use. I like how he has the students create an autobiography and create a story with pictures, text, and special effects such as transition. His students are combining many different areas of instruction. I like how you are able to publish the finished creations in multiple formats. The finished projects are able to be shared with the class

Flicker

I was not able to see Bernadette and Dan's presentation. I was able to go to the Flickr website to see how the program works. After seeing their unit plan of the foods lesson, I was upset that I missed their talk. Flickr is a program that would work great in my courses, especially since I teach photography. Flickr would be a great tool for my students to use, to share and post their digital or shot images. We have a scanner in our classroom and my students do traditional black and white photography. They could scan their printed photographs. This program would be a great tool for the students to share their work with the class and the world. I like that Dan and Bernadette incorporated to critique tool within the unit. I think that Flickr would be a great tool for teaching "how to critique" artwork as well.

REDO

adding campus update video again....noticed while watching the first video post of campus update,that there is double audio.. lets try this again.

Smart Board and Smart Notebook

This is in reflection from Tim, Francis and Pat's presentation on the authoring tool. Smart board and Smart Notebook. I have used this software, so for myself, I was familiar with this tool. I like the way that Francis incorporated the use of the Smart board to show her students the roots of language for her classes. It is nice that she allows the students to interact with the board in class. I also learned about some of the features such as the change the written word to a typed word.... I will finish this post after Pat presents her 1/2 of the talk.

Healthy Living

This is in response to Dana, Danielle and Carol's Healthy Living presentation. They had great information to share with the class via handouts and through the talk. The video that they created to show healthy living choices reinforced the overall theme of the lesson. I can see how the students would benefit from creating a video on this subject matter. This would make this a fun lesson. The food samples to show actual size of food and calorie intake was a good "real life example" To show us what we are eating. As an overall presentation...they did a great job, and used a variety of authoring tools to convey their topic. (video and PowerPoint)

Short Video

Sharing Videos

things to share...how much research we went through to publish our video project via many hosts!

How to publish or “share” your Visual Communicator video??
1) Finish your video.
2) Publish as a Window Media Video (WMV) for internet and email use. Not a huge file, for Windows Media Player…(fast & dirty a compressed file)
3) Publish as an AVI uncompressed video, burn project to a DVD as an AVI file. Good quality.
4) You can publish to a blog as a WMV, MOV and many other formats.
5) Publish to an IPOD. First publish as AVI file, open AVI file in Quick Time (Apple) and save as a MOV file. Next, open MOV file in Itunes. File import into Itunes. Plug in your Ipod, and drag and drop into your playlist. Update Ipod. You now have a video podcast in your Ipod.