iMovie

I also enjoyed making an educational imovie video. I was able to incorporate videos clips that I shot, images from the web and my camera, add texts to images, add music and various sound effects, place transitions between pics and video, not to mention how to create a Youtube account so that I could upload the video for many people to see. I think that using videos to teach lesson in your classroom can be more beneficial to powerpoints and slideshows. By using videos you can do hand-ons examples of actvites, take your students to the exact place you may be talking about, and so much more. They can also be created with extreme diversity depending on the content matter. For example, my video was on rowing and the program here at the University of Kansas. My video was educational with a bit of a sports twist, while my classmates did videos on signing the alphabet, the civil war, things to do in Lawrence, KS, and a varitey of other topics. I feel like videos can be created to be entertaining and informational which will help hold the attention of your students and help with their comprehension. Creating videos is something that I will definitely use in my future classroom not only for instructional purposes on my part, but as projects/assignments for my students!

Web Publishing Assignment

The first assingment we has was to create a personal website through the use of iWeb and then publishing it to the web through CyberDuck. At first I thought that the whole thing would be very overwhelming, but as it turns out I really liked it. I tihink that using iWeb is part of the reason this assignment was fun and not as difficult as I anticipated. Infact it made me want a Mac when I begin teaching. I think that knowing how to create a website for my classroom will be something that my students and parents can get a lot out of. I can have a classroom site where students parents and even extended family can see what we are working on in class and things that we have already completed. I might even consider having students hand in virtual assigments much like we do in C&T 301 that way they have a way to reference back to them, and to see all the things that they have accomplished. It is also something that I would like to hook my collegues on. I have already shown some of my other friends in the School of Ed program and they seem to have positive feedback and want to learn how to create the same sort of thing. Overall this was my favorite assignment and I hope to be able to use it as planned in my future classroom.