podcast

I can't tell you how easy using Imovie is to create a podcast. I will be using this in my classroom for 2 of my classes adding the rest by next year. The ease of creating this project surprised me. I went to picknik and modified all the pics in the podcast. Students enjoy the alterations done like colorization or sharpness. I also used imovie to add music and voice over to my podcast. This personalized the project a little more. My students are all so tech friendly, I know I can set up the original blogger and let them take over the rest. I also enjoy that this project is very green! Not always using paper and pen helps students to prepare for the next step in life where technology is used every day.

delicious account

Really love the delicious idea. Having a way to bookmark and share with others the sites i have found is great. I have a friend on delicious with tons of sites i can reference. I will be taking more time to create different tags for my students to use when researching for their projects. my account is http://delicious.com/carmenstaudt

Podcast proposal

The purpose of this podcast is to inform the students and parents about my Personal Relations class. In my podcast, I would like to cover the weekly events of what we are studying like finance or careers unit. By bringing this information weekly to parents, I believe it will enhance the activities we are working on.

My intended audience is the students enrolled in the class and their parents. The podcast will be broadcast weekly on Fridays. I will start the podcast off with a synopsis of the class but will have a student host each week after. The show will last at least 5 minutes which should be enough time to explain the past week and give a preview of the next.

The format will be newsletter type giving brief explanation of highlights. It will be the beginning of a newsletter for the class.

In my podcast, I will be discussing the standards and benchmarks from the FCS curriculum. I will explain the general target of items such as “checkbook managing or credit cards use”. This will help parents to continue the conversation with their son/daughter at home creating learning of the subjects at home. It will also give them “real world” experiences to draw from. I will conclude with the subject we will address in the next week and any other pertinent information such as permission slips for field trips or large project due dates.

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THANK YOU!

I just have to post a Thank You to those who have been patient with my blog. I've had some real technological problems that our wonderful instructor Ann has helped with. I can say as of today, I'm feeling wonderful about being able to use this site! I posted my article to go with the video because of the difficulties i encountered. Again, THANKS to all who have been sooo patient.

Animoto

I thoroughly enjoyed this project and plan on using it in my classroom! The animoto program is easy to use. Downloading images was a snap. I altered the oil image with colorization and altered effect of image. The water slide I intensified the image and changed it to black and white. I love the effects that the program created with the images I used. Lastly, I added video and music from the bank of choices in the animoto program. Very easy to click and add. My next adventure would be to download music from my itunes account and take images from my school to create another video.