Monday, December 7, 2009

Project #3: Activity Three

Reflection

I loved this project! Prezi is super cool! At first it didn't seem very intuitive, but I got the hang of it after a while. Essentially it is pretty simple in function and the transitions are mostly automatic, but really makes it fun to watch the presentation. I like the idea that you can see the whole picture and have the option of clicking through to different focused topics. On my project, however, I created a path so that it would follow through the presentation as intended.

Acknowledgement: Nathan for introducing me to Prezi.

My Awesome Project #3

Final Project #3 - Activity One

PREZI - (Project #3, Activity #1)

Outline of tutorial interactive technology information:
- There are two modes: Place and Prezi
- Use space to zoom out; click on object to zoom
- Editing (Place mode): Media, Text, Frame, Line, Path
- Transformation zebra: used to scale, expand, or rotate

What I have learned in Class

This class has been really fun. I like it because technological tools can be great assets to teaching and can enhance learning. I have been talking to a friend about effective teaching and there are effective uses of technology and not effective methods. I have learned some things that could be effective and some thing that I think may be superfluous. For this class, I think the discussion questions online may have been unnecessary, but I really liked the class website.
Outside of the strict education related uses of the technologies we learned about in this class, I liked learning to easily make a website. I also enjoyed creating a movie and having an excuse to play around with that process. I really enjoy technology, but I sometimes feel like it takes a lot of time to go through the process of familiarizing yourself enough to use it effectively. Overall, it was a good excuse to play with technology, but, yes, there are also some useful applications.
I don't really see many areas that would need improvements as far as the actual class. I really appreciated the due date flexibility.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Project #2: Nine Core Feelings VIDEO

This is my educational video on the Nine Core Feelings addressing UEN standard 1, objective 2, section b.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Screen shot for Bonus points :)

This one is an actual "screen-shot" in that is shows the whole screen, via the traditional screen shot button. Either way I think is worth bonus points! :)

Video Call with my brother!

I did a video call with my younger brother and mom. Gordon just got his driver's permit, so now he can even SHOW me his new permit! This is awesome! I used Skype to make this video call.
Bonus: Here's a "skype snap-shot" of our call...