Scripting & Digital Stories

Wow. The scripting was a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. It seems like 3 minutes is an eternity. I guess that i will just keep on tying to come up with more things to say. Even though coming up with something to say can be hard, I think that making this little story is going to be pretty fun. Something that would be great is that if we could share all of our movies with the class and then we would have 30 different stories that we could use.

To make my story i am going to use iMovie becuase i just got a brand new Mac and i haven't made a movie on it yet. I really like using iMovie becuase working with the audio is so easy. It is also a great skill to have because i could teach it to my students i know that at some schools, students learn how to do iMovie in their lab time. That would be really fun for the student to do a report or to make their own digital stories. Learning iMovie is so easy, it only took me a couple of hours before i was showing my dad how it works, so i definitely think that it is something that my students would be able to master very quickly.

Google Sites

Can i just say that I Love all the the Google tools. Every week we have been learning new things that we can do and they are all so easy and fun to do. I really liked the Sites because it was really easy to format and i didn't have any problems like i might have when im trying to do a blog.

This would be great in the classroom in a variety of ways. One way that i would use it is to create a class website where students & parents could see assignments and announcements and i could also use it as a portfolio for the students work or photography. One way that the students could use it is to create a site for themselves just like we did, where they could tell a little about themselves and then they would be able to put up their reports or various assignments and it would save on a lot of wasted paper. Learning how to use google sites was actually really simple and is definetly something that students would have down in no time. I will definitely use this with my students because it's so so easy.

Google Docs & Chat

In class we explored a little more into what goole docs is all about and it was so much fun. I am glad that i could learn how to use it because i'm a big fan of wikis and having students put up their ideas in a community of their peers and just saying what they think. The google docs was a little different format than most wikis i have heard about, but i loved the way that the collaboration worked. It was so great to work together and be able to put a paper together. I really think that this is something that students would really like, being able to work together and I could, as the teacher, watch their progress and help them focus their project so they get things right the first time around. Google docs is defineitly something i will use right now. I work on my papers at home and then maybe i want to work on a paper in the computer lab so i would have to email it to myself or bring it on a jump drive. It is so much easier just to do work on google docs and then to be able to access it from anywhere.

Google

I am so excited that we started off the class by getting blogs. I love blogging and i think it is a great way to put out there what you're feeling and then have people let you know what they think. I liked Doc Waters idea about using a blog as a journal for my day to show how things went with lessons and my students. I also really liked using the google pages in class today. In my 2200 class we used the My UEN, but i found that i couldn't always get it to do exactly what i wanted. I have been using blogger and picasa for a while now and they are so easy to use and i always can find new things that i can do with them. That is why i want to use google pages to create a site for me and my students to use. I think that it would be great for students to have a class blog or website that they could use to post their work or use as their journal. Another amazing google application i learned about was google docs. I am so interested in learning more about it. It is so great for students to be able to work on projects with each other as collaborators and then being able to work from home or school. I just wish that i had had this type of technology when i was in school, and i will definitely use it with my students because it allows them to have a little more freedom with their work and allows the students to critique each other in a way that they can continually fix and work on. I am a big fan of students doing wikis and i really would like to learn a lot more about that. I'm really excited for this class and being able to continue learning more about all of these fun tools that i can use in my classes.