Monday, March 30, 2009

Spring Ice Break-Up in Akiachak


I went crazy with this assignment and started on a few different pages. This is the one I chose because the others that I made are lost because I haven't saved any of them.
A few pictures would make a good comic story too. I chose the Spring Break up because this is the season when the river ice is slowly starting to melt and then all the ice from above Aniak starts moving all the way out to the ocean.
ComicLife will be a good software to use in a classroom. I am definitely going to make more comic pages.

Picking red berries during a cold spring day

I had fun with Picasa, this is one of the things I didn't know about before this assignment. Picasa made me realize that I just need to take more pictures of the things I do when I go home during my breaks or whenever I have a free time here on campus. Picasa is an easier way to upload pictures for projects like the photo slide show we just did.
Picasa is also easy to learn and I am going to use it in my classroom for my students to do picture slideshows with captions for them to tell stories about whatever their pictures or slideshow is on.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Digital Video

Now I know what iMovie is for, I never knew what it was for until we did this iMovie project. I had fun with this project. At first I didn't know what to do it on, so I was looking over my photos and thought of making something for my niece since I have so many pictures of her. I plan on adding more on this to fit the whole music.
I also made a few wedding photo iMovies, one for my sister for her early anniversary gift and also made one for my cousin for her anniversary gift too. I also had to teach my brother inlaw how to use the iMovie. I can't wait to teach others how to make iMovies. This is going to be a good project for students to make iMovies about anything they would make and its going to be a good tool to use to make gifts with memorable photos for parents and other family members.
I like how we can add any music to the iMovie and the music can fit into the photos and match. If I hadn't taken this class iMovie software would not be used in my laptop.