Week 5 presenter

This week in class we did not really do an activity.  We had a guess speaker come in who was a student at western at one point.  He talked about a lot of diffrent technologies that could be used from story bird in the classroom to putting a website on your resume.  It was kind of interesting and it did give me some ideas that I would like to use in the class.  I really like this one website he showed us about how to create a quiz for my students so I could see if they were really understanding what I was teaching.  Not only understanding but seeing what we need to work on in class.

Week 4 Google earth/ iPad

Today in class we did two activities.   The first one was make a movies trailer on an iPad.  I thought this would be good in class to get kids interested in a subject.  My group did life in Africa and i thought that would be a perfect subject for kids in a geography class.  The video would get them really excited and they would want to learn more.  Or they could make a video about what they learned.

The second subject we learned is how to work google earth.  We had to create five places to visit and take a tour of them.  The tour included adding pictures and a website with information about the place.  I would let my students use this to show about a subject they were learning about.

I would continue to use both applications but the iPad movie was my favorite and I would use it more often.

ED 270 week 3 Imovie

Today we made an Imovie. I did not get to finish it but hopefully I will finish it by next class.
 It was interesting  i'm not sure if I would ever make one for my class but now that I know how to use it maybe I would have my class make them for special topics for whatever they are working on.  I coach a cheer team and I have three 6 graders who love to make scary movies with Imovie so I know what kids can work it.

We are working in groups.  Me, carley, and butch are a group.  are topic is seven reasons to adopt a black cat.  we got all our pictures and video in now we just need to put them together and we will be finished.

second class ED 270 photoshop

On Wednesday we learned about Photoshop.  We talked about how to tell if a picture is Photoshopped (ex: grain, glares, lights etc.), how to do it our self's, and where to get pictures without stealing them in case we want to use it in our classroom. 

It did take some time  to get use to the program but I was able to successfully get a picture from he internet, upload one, and scan one in.  Then I commended all the pictures into one so it looked natural  even learning how to put shadows in!  and lastly I added text to the pictures.