Mailing Your Final Projects

All projects are due by August 15. Please mail them to:

Chris Longe
7904 W. Bur Oak Dr.
Franklin, WI 53132

Movie Maker

I enjoyed working with Movie Maker today. I can't wait to send the video to my family. All About Me is nearly finished. I just have a few questions to finish it up.
Tweeter was great fun! I can't see myself checking it a lot but I enjoyed the responses.

From Tweets to Tunes, it was a great learning day! Things are starting to come together --compared to others I know who haven't taken this class, I now feel like an expert! Look forward to finishing projects tomorrow. Thanks to Chris and Deb and the supportive class.

MMME - Day 4

Busy, busy day. It was nice to get a lot of work time today. I needed a chance/time to get to know some of the sites that we had visited over the last several days a bit better. I feel pretty good about some of them know

Movie Maker was a bit frustrating to work with. I got bogged down moving slides around and trying to reposition the titles and sound bites that I wanted to go with them. In my opinion it would be nice if they linked at least pics and titles together. They were driving me nuts as I edited my movie. I finally got the hang of it, figured out a few short cuts and even managed to add a cool sound track. Looks pretty good if I do say so myself.

Listened to some free music sites. Downloaded a music trac to both Power Point and Movie Maker. This was a first for me, I'm not a big music guy and I don't own an iPod (old school), so I never got around to it. Adding music to a video presentation really gives it life, this is a feature that I will definitely be making use of.

Spent some time on the "Wordle" site. I can see where this could be kind of fun. I may use this to create a series of crazy vocabulary lists for my seniors or posters for my walls or door.

Nearly wrapped up my Power Point show. Struggled for a long time with trying to add an appropriate video clip. Had to settle for just a link. Everything I wanted was protected.

I got the chance to find  5+ new video podcasts. I didn't count the ones I'm already using on the Discovery Education site (my school subscribes already).

Twitter - Kind of fun. I know there are educational reasons to use it, but this technology will probably not be of the highest priority to master in the school year to come. Maybe a bit further down the road. 

That's about all for now. See ya' on Friday

Ken Francis

Day 4 Thursday, July 31, 2008

Today was comparisons and analysis day for me. I realize that the ultimate collaborative tool for Spanish projects is Voicethread with its multi-faceted options of still visuals, typed script, audio recording and sketching pencil. Microsoft Photostory is easy to use but has very limited scripting available. Students are able to record information for the visual presentation, a perfect fit for second language learning. I would need to contact the computer technician concerning the free download. MovieMaker is a similar venue with more options for customizing the presentation with a variety of entries, backgrounds and timing, not unlike PowerPoint.
I still need to determine if Pbwiki has advantages over wikispaces. I have used Pbwikis extensively but found that there are some drawbacks, such as a limited space and an inability to do tabbing with the tab key.
My final goal is to organize the Webpage which actually should be a work in progress with constant updates. I would like to create an attractive home page and have already inserted pictures from our student tour of Costa Rica in June. Has anyone worked with the Google site? I could use a bit of tech support! thanks

Fun day

Wow, today was filled! I had fun (and frustration) creating my power point and moviemaker projects! They take a lot of time but are very cool when finished! I am worried I won't be able to remember how to do certain things on them when I am on my own though. I hope my tech person is a willing helper:) I am enjoying this class and excited about using what I learned with my students.

Day Four

Learned more about the Windows Movie Maker program today. I added music add edited the rest of the movie. Should be able to put it on a DVD tomorrow hopefully.

Need to do a voice thread and power point tomorrow to finish everything for the week and for three credits.