Pixton

Describe the assignment?

The assignment for this week was to promote technology literacy. The site i used to create this comic above is www.pixton.com . I really enjoyed this program because there was so many things I had to play with. Minji and I were at first getting mad at this program and then once we got the hang of it, we became better in editing and creating pictures.

I would highly recommend this site if a teacher wants to introduce a topic to the class more differently. This is a great site and it is free.

The only thing I don't like about it is that it may be very limited and changing the size of objects and characters maybe very difficult, but with much practice and determination this site will hold on to its own expectations for teachers and students.

QuizYourFriends and Rubistar

Descrive your assignment?

Quizyourfriend is a program that people can use to quiz their friends on their personal lives to show how much you know about your friends. I have used this program in facebook where it actually was alot of people because everyone who actually thought they knew you didn't actually know a lot of things they should know. IT is fun where people wants to be the person that knows your the most. In an educational view we can use this program to see how much a student knows about the topic they've read and it is great because it is multiple choice and the teacher choses what questions should be asked.

This is a great educational tool that teachers can use and I've been seeing these types of quizzes in my other online classes.

Rubistar is a great rubric generator because it is to use and easy to take out the rubric from the site using teacher knowledge skills to take it out for free. It is easy to use and friendly. It gives ideas that teachers can grade their students on and can be easily modified to the teacher's desire for grading their students.This is a great educational tool to help teachers create rubric categories because it is so difficult to make at times.


http://quizstar.4teachers.org/servlet/quizrepositoryservlet

Week 8 March 15-21

Describe your assignment?

Our assignment for this week was to create a video using flip cameras as a group. Our task was to come up with a technology that will help benefit the educational field of learning environment. We then had to input our data in the computer and using Imovie to edit and enhance our video.

What features did you use in i-movie to enhance your video?

The features my group used was the theme that introduces each scene, audio voice changes that made our video have an epic dramatic tone to one scene, we used the voice recorder to make our video more like a commercial, and we also added music from the i-movie gallery.

What did you like/dislike about i-movie?

I really like I-movie because it was easy to use. I know it is difficult at first to use the program, but once you get the hang of it then the program will benefit for the results you're looking for. I like the audio changers, slow/fast motion changer, themes, color changer, voice recorder, and etc.

Would you use it in your classroom?

I got to admit that I really dislike Mac computers because I never got to use it so much as I use window products. I find it easier to use windows as to Macs. I would totally use the program as it is really helpful and fun to use.

How did you like the flip cam? pros or cons?

I really like how the flip cams was so accurate in the sounds it records and the quality of the video it takes. It is easy to carry around and easy to use. The cons in my opinion is you have to wait until you put the camera in a computer to see the results. The other problem in the flip cam is that there are no extra features to choose from. It is very limited and it is just used for taking a video and nothing else. It would be cool if it can take pictures, but then again there is no feature that makes you check your previously filmed shots.

Give an overall rating to this assignment?

I really enjoyed this assignment. It was really fun to work with the other students and fun our creative side. It really took out the shy side of ourselves and showed what we can do. Not, by just learning, but also acting, speaking, and making fun of ourselves. It was a fun assignment. The only thing i dislike it that meeting up with the other group mates was difficult, but we made time to meet with a couple of us and fill in the person who is missing or absent in our meeting. I also dislike that the other groups didn't present because it is really an experience they're missing out on.

Michelle was the reporter for our videos about our teleportation invention video.