EMBEDDED PREZI Project!

Today in class we were supposed to embed that we created to go along with our webquest that we have been working. I think mine is still a work in progress, but nonetheless here is my presentation.

Patriotism in America on Prezi

JING

I was not in class on Friday, April 9 because of a tennis tournament, but in class we talked about about a new snipping tool called Jing. You can download this tool for free online from the website. Here is a link to the JING WEBSITE to download!

Here is a LINK to an article that compares some other image capturing and screen casting tools.

Powerpoint is so.....1980. Moving on to Prezi.

Today we were introduced to a new online multimedia tool. This is another online presentation tool that we can use that is WAY COOLER than powerpoint.

Here is a LINK for my Prezi account!

My Photo Story

Hello Photo Story...Goodbye Ol' Powerpoint

Today in class we were introduced Microsoft Photo Story. We also created accounts on Youtube because we are going to upload our movies that we create through Photo story onto Youtube. The following are the responses to the questions e-mailed in blackboard 4/05/10.


2.) Photo Story 3 for Windows is program where you can take still images and make them into a movie. You can get a copy of it by downloading it off the internet for free.
3.) The file type for a MPS project is .wp3
4.) The file type for an exported MPS movie wmv.
5.) MPS projects open in Photo Story 3.
6.) Exported MSP movies open in Windows Media Player or you can upload them to YouTube.
7.) Yes, yes you can do transitions in between images.
8.) You can crop and changes the picture styles.
9.)You can focus in on certain parts of the image at first, and then the image will go to the full picture or vice versa.
10.) In order to save your Powerpoint into images you first save it onto your desktop. When you go to save as, then click on other formats. Save the type as JPEG File Interchange Format.

Wednesday, March 24th -- No class Friday! :)

In class we did a group activity that helped us better understand the different "roles" in the collaboritive group projects for our lesson plans. We each had different roles in the group to look at the various websites to look at them from a different aspects. Such as checking for the content, time efficicency, and I was the person that looked that at it from a technological standpoint. I was looking at the websites to see if the layouts were attractive, if the activities seemed interesting, and if the person who created the websites made sure to integrate alot of technology. We have no class on Friday and are supposed to continue working on our Webquests and be thinking about answering the questions we want to ask in our lessons.

March 22, 2010 - Overview of class

In class we started to dicuss Webquest, and how we will use this website. We are going to turn our lesson plans and turn them into project based learning activities that have an emphasis on action orientated activities. Also, these groups have a focus on collaborative groups projects where everyone in the group will have a "role" to do something within the lesson. Everyones webquest will have: Intro, Task, Process, Resources, Conclusion, and Evaluation. We are supposed to create the questions, topics and goals defined for our lesson plan.