Classroom website

This week was great learning more things that I can do on my web site. To have a classroom webpage would have huge advantages for me as a teacher as well as for the parents of my students. I like the calendar that is availabel to have on the web page to help parents to remeber what is going on in the classroom. Some of the things you had has put on our web page I never would have though to put on it before. I like the idea of putting what technologies are being used in teh classroom. I would use these tools in my classroom and try it out to see fi it was utilized by the parents and it was useful. also this week I worked on finishing my digital story. We are pretty much done just have to put the music in and burn it on to a CD. It turned out really well! Some of things we wanted to do didn't turn out but it all worked out. I would love to see everyone elses. It took alot of time to put it all together it woudl be worth it to see some that people made.

Almost There!

This week for our digital story we worked on the images panning in and out the way we wanted them to as well as finished putting in our words on the pictures. We aren't going to be able to have the words and pictures pan in different ways the photostory program can't do it. That was going to make our story really cool, oh well we hope it will still look neat. We also got started on putting in our music. We chose some music from the 60's 70's to put in our power point we need to find one more song though to use. This weekend we are going to record various people saying their right and responsibilities to use in our story. We want male vocies, female, kids, teens, etc. we weren't quite sure how we were going to get all those voices to beabel to put them on the computer to use, but Kari found a digital voice recorder so we are going to use that. Hopefully this coming week we will have our finished product. It has been good to work with a partner and figure all this stuff out! We also need to put the story on DVD's to turn in and also for us to keep.

Find and Save!

This week for digital story we were searching for pictures, music, and narration. We also got started on playing with photostory. We put in all the pictures and number of slides we needed, as well as even some words to go along with the pictures. We played around for a while to figure out out how to use photostory so we didn't get as much done as we had wanted to. We also started using the program to put music or narration in our story. we still have alot of work to do and we have come up with some cool ideas as we have gone along. I look forward to seeing teh final product. It as been good for me to learn how to use story board I think it is a great tool for the classroom and once you make it you can use it again. It will save you time in the long run. I am interested to see what technology or programs are available in the school I will teach at to see what will be availabel to use in teh classroom.

Learning

This week in class we took a closer look at digital stories. It was very helpful to see examples as well as go over some web pages and resources we had available to us to use. Its also great that we can work with our field partner to create our story. It is always good to have two heads rather than one. We talk about what we might want to do and we got together to create our dashboard this week as well. It was helpful to see it all layed out on paper of the detail we plan on including in the story. So far we have stared looking for pictures, music, and naravtive. I think that by creating this story we will be able to learn how to use it in the classroom to give our classroom media in the lesson plans for our students. I look forward to actually creating the story and seeing the final product.