Sunday, June 27, 2010

Tool #7


This posting was, by far, the most frustrating for me throughout the whole process. I got to Tool #7, created my imovie, and had extreme troubles in posting it. Even with it being in the correct format, it still refused to post. Since I was going out of town soon after I made my movie, I left it for several weeks and decided to finish when I got back. However, I still had no luck so I decided to go on and finish the other 11 tools. Now that I have attended another help session, I have heard that blogger is being very particular about posting movies. Luckily, I have full permission to complete this process without it.

I made my movie about a trip to Spain that I took with another teacher. I uploaded my pictures to imovie, added text to explain the pictures, and downloaded a spanish guitar song to play in the background. I thought that the process to make a movie was fairly easy and self-explanatory. I went to the help website was one problem but it was easily solved. I am very pleased with how my movie turned out, and I can see myself making another one in the future. I promise you that it's a great movie, you just probably won't be able to see it!

I think that I am definitely going to use imovie at the end of the year. I think it would be a great way to use all of those pictures that I end up taking throughout the year. You could put them all in an imovie to wrap up another great year with the students. They can see their growth while looking back on all of the fun memories with their class!

2 comments:

  1. Kelsey - I miss you! I hope your summer has been great and look forward to swapping travel stories when we return to Thornwood. Thanks for being such a hip techie teacher. Your students benefit so much from all your trainings especially since you embrace technology and actually use it with your lesson plans. You're the best!

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  2. Your PhotoStory looks great! I know that you and many others were frustrated by system glitches in getting them posted at first, but I'm glad you hung in there! That's one thing I've learned about technology - things don't always work the first time, but if you're patient and keep trying, things usually work out!

    Millie

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