Hmm...logged into the blog for week four and realized my week three blog never posted. The joys of blogging from your cell phone!!
This week we've looked at a program called Animoto which is a video slideshow maker. Before this class I had experience with Animoto because we had a professional development snapshot of it at a staff meeting last year. A snapshot was all that is was. We had 10 or so minutes to mess around with it after given a short tutorial by our librarian. After that, I never really felt the need to use it, though I was constantly reminded of the program from the monthly e-mails. Now, in this class, we had more time to play around with the program and I really enjoyed it. At first, I felt that it was a bit finicky, but after a while I got a hang of it. I also liked that you could use pictures from Facebook; which made it easy to access images. I do wish that the program allowed for more editing, but maybe that is something that will happen in the future.
We also talked about a Pecha Kucha (still working on the pronunciation!!). This concept is the art of giving a presentation where you have 20 slides and each slide is only on the screen for 20 seconds. We will be making a Pecha Kucha for this class and I have to admit I am a bit nervous. I'm one of those people that talks A LOT, so only being able to talk for 20 seconds per slide, might be a bit of a challenge for me. It will be interesting though. I plan on doing mine about my family/friends/hobbies because it is a topic that I know lots about and maybe I could use it as a beginning of the year introduction for my students.
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