Monday, January 24, 2011
PE5_SoundationStudio
So I am becoming more and more familiar with this Web 2.0 tool, Soundation Studio. No, it is not the easiest thing to learn but it works. I have good news to start off, I just got the call today about my new job as an elementary school band teacher. This should be exciting! Ultimately, finding this tool gives me an opportunity to share the music that we do in the classroom with their parents. Concerts are not mandatory in Elementary school and a lot of parents do not realize how gifted their children are. Soundation Studio will provide the parents with an opportunity to listen to their students in and out of school. Every so often, I plan to send the parents a link to what we have been doing in the classroom so that they can hear their children. Hopefully, they will enjoy this listening opportunity and my students will enjoy hearing themselves.
The picture above is a picture of a song I am working on. It gives me some ideas for my students and their music and it sounds a whole lot better than my first song!
Monday, January 17, 2011
PE3_Imovie
As I stated in my last two blogs, I have been going through this process of learning everything about Imovie so I decided to let you guys in on my world of wedding planning. For those of you who are getting ready to get married, here is a prime example of what you will be doing real soon in short form. This video shows you some of my wedding cake ideas, as well as one of my final bouquet choices and the overall look of my wedding party. I hope you all enjoy this video and if you have any questions feel free to ask.
PE2_Imovie
I have come to blog some more about my imovie experiences. It is very hard to combine several months worth of pictures and ideas into a one-minute movie especially when it is a wedding. There are so many things that have to be considered when planning a wedding so I have tried to show everyone the important things. In this picture you will see a screenshot of one of my wedding cake designs. I used the Scrapbook 3 transition so that through each transition you will see all of the wedding cake designs as well as the bouquets for my bridesmaids. This transition really gives you a visual of what I see everyday in this planning process.
If you are going for the scrapbook approach, please choose Scrapbook 3. It is the best. Just to give you all a sneak peak of the wedding party, I have created a picture on David Bridal’s, “Dress Your Wedding” application on their website.
Hope you enjoy!!
P.S.- Of course this is not my real wedding dress, I want it to be a surprise for everyone that day!
PE1_Imovie
Whew!!!! I have my certificate of completion for Imovie training now. Full Sail has completely opened my eyes up to a world of different tools that I know will be helpful in the classroom. Imovie is one of the many tools that I had never used before until I became a grad student at Full Sail. Throughout this process, I have been trying to make a one-minute clip of my world of planning my wedding. My fiancé and I love music so I felt that it was important that the audience hears music the minute that the video starts. The only thing is that the track is 4 minutes long and I only want 29 seconds of the song. I almost went crazy trying to figure how to cut the clip up but Lynda.com made this a lot easier. Here is a little help for those of you that may be having similar problems, when you open up the clip trimmer it has already selected the entire track. You have to go to the end of the track and unselect everything that you do not need. This is where I went wrong, I thought I had to select what I needed.
I love the process of creating this movie and I hope you all enjoy the finished product of my wedding planning world that will follow in the blog to come.
BP4_Engrade
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for tuning in again! It is time to blog about another tool that I have found that can be helpful for teachers like myself through Web 2.0. This tool is called Engrade. I know a lot of school systems have their own grading sites but most do not allow you to access it from home. Home is the place where teachers spend a lot of time grading assignments but they cannot record until they get back to the school the next day. This is a great tool where you can do both at the same time and focus more on students who need after-school tutoring afterschool.
One of the main things that I have noticed about a school’s music program and the parents of the students is that they do not see music like they see a regular classroom. Music has often been thought of as an extra curricular program and not treated like classes such as Math, Reading, and English. Most parents are surprised when they find that their child has anything lower than an A in the music class. This tool is a good way for the parents to keep up with the student’s progress in my classroom. Engrade allows them to see how they are doing on test, quizzes, and other assignments in the classroom. Engrade ensures that there are no surprises when it is time for progress reports or even report cards. It is real user-friendly and it allows you to comment on the grades that you have posted so that the parents understand why they have received the grade that they have.
Some of the other tools that you will see is the calendar tool. The calendar allows you to input things that you want the parents to know. For example, I would use it to let the parents know when they have a test or quiz coming up. I would also use it so the parents will know about the concerts. The attendance tab allows the parents to have a record of their child’s attendance. It also has a quiz tab where the students can assess their quizzes online. Overall, this is a very good tool and I would recommend this to everyone that can not access their online grade book from home.
Have a good weekend everyone,
Tiffany
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