Tuesday, March 1, 2011

My Life

Upload your movie to your blog posting. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format.]

2. A) Identify the different music in your project.
B) Tell us what songs you used
C) Why you chose the different pieces

3. Describe how you went about finding your information, pictures, and songs:
A) What kinds of search terms/phrases did you use? (Give some examples.)
B) What search engine(s) do you use most often?
C) Did you find any unreliable websites or sources?

4. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...]
5. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project?
6. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you?

7.
A) Did you decide to use still slides?
B) Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?]
C) Did you use a consistent theme throughout your movie?
D) Why or why not?

8. Describe how you used video in your project.

9. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?

10. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc., How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?
11. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?








2. A. The types of music I used are Alternative, Pop, and soft rock.
    B. "Songs I used are Animal", "We are Family","Swim", and "100 Years".
    C. I chose these songs because they went well with my movie.
3.
    A. Search terms I used were for the pictures I typed in the word of what it was and for songs I already knew what songs I wanted to use.
    B. The search I engine I use is google.
    C. I did not find any unreliable sources.
4.The different types of technology I used were Keynote, Imovie, and the Internet.
5. I was good at scanning and deciding which pictures I wanted to use.
6. I struggled with timing the video to the music.
7.
   A. Yes, some of my slides were still slides.
   B. I chose them because I thought it looked good.
   C. I did not use a constant theme throughout the movie.
   D. I did not use a constant theme because I wanted it to look colorful.
8.I used video by putting a video of myself diving.
9. This type of project can be adapted for presenting information in another class.
10. This projected used transformative property of borrowed images and songs by taking songs for youtube and images from google. I transformed the images and songs through citing and zamzar. 
11. I would do another project like this because I loved going through all the pictures of me. 
   

Friday, February 4, 2011

Music Genome

1. Post your movie to your blog.
2. A) Identify your chosen musical genre &
B) say why you chose it.


3. Describe how you went about finding your songs and information. What search terms did you use? Where did you find your information?

4. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...]

5. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project?
6. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you

7. Did you decide to use still slides? Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?


8. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?


9. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976?[...not just that you cited the information, etc., but how did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?

10. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?




2. My music genre is Nonanimated Disney. I chose this because I love Disney.


3. Search terms I used were Nonanimated Disney movies. I found my information from Imbd.com


4. I used garageband, zamzar, and noodletools.


5. Finding the information for the movie was easy.


6. Timing the music was difficult.


7. I used still slides and movies because it was hard to find some movies. 


8. I could use this project many other classes to present information.


9. My project used transformative music property by converting music and videos by citing them. 


10. I would not do a project like this again because I am not into technology.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

NDCulture-Storyboard





1. Identify your team's topic

2. Describe your role on the team.

3. What did you learn from being a part of this team?

4. What went well for you as a team?

5. What did not go well for you as a team?

6. Describe the process from storyboarding through the movie creation. Did ideas/concepts/focus change from one kind of technology to the other? If so, how?  

7. What new tools and techniques did you learn by doing this project?

8. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?

9. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc.,How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?

10.Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?

1. Our team's topic was Biology.

2. My role on the team was to interview teachers and voice over.

3. I learned more about Biology and what the teachers think from being part of this team.

4. Everything went well from being part of this team, I thought the video was very good. 

5. Their was not anything that did not go well for the team.

6. Everything that was on the storyboard was in the video. When we did the video we just added the interview of the teachers and voiceovers.

7. I learned more about Imovie from doing this project.

8. I could use this type of project for speech.

9. The project used transformative property by borrowing pictures. We transformed the images by citing them.

10. I would not do another project because I did not find it interesting. 

Monday, January 10, 2011

Movie Review Podcast

1. Upload your slideshow as a movie to your blog posting. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format.]

2. What tools and techniques did you use to create your podcast?
3.  How could you use a project like this in other classes?
4.  In the “real world,” how could podcast projects be used (In what careers/businesses, etc.)?
5.  In this project, what did you get good at doing?

6. What was the most difficult part of the assignment?

7. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc., How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?

8.  Would you do a project like this on your own?

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2. Tool and techniques used to create the podcast were recording voice, timing the pictures to the voice, and the jingles.

3. I could use this project in other classes because I can record lectures and study and take notes later.

4. In the real world podcast's could be used to show a product or something and explain what it is or what it is about.

5. In this project I got good at timing pictures to music.

6. The most difficult part of the assignment was recording my voice.

7. The project used the transformative property of borrow images and music by getting a song off youtube and transforming it through zamzar and then putting it into the podcast.

8. No, I would not do a project like this on my own because I do not technology because it is confusing sometimes. 

Monday, December 13, 2010

Iphoto Name Reflection

1. Upload your slideshow as a movie to your blog posting. [If you have trouble with this, check to see that you exported it in the correct format.]

2. List the search terms (words) that you used to find images (for the letters of your name and the images that describe you) and why?

3. What skills did you use/learn in this project?

4. Describe how you might use these skills and apply them to a real-world situation.

5. This was a more creative project than our first 2. Did you prefer it or the more cut and dry assignments in Word and Excel?

6. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc.,How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.?
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2. The terms I used are the letter shaped item.

3. Skills I used are cropping and blemishing and using slideshow on iphoto, also the internet.

4. I can use the internet to research.

5. I liked this one better because it was more fun.

6. I used music that they already had given us. 

Saturday, December 4, 2010

M&M

1. Take a screenshot of your spreadsheet and add it as a picture to your blog posting.

2. What is a template? [If you use an definition from an online source, be sure to tell me from what website it came.]

3. What tools/functions in Excel did you use to calculate your data?
4.  What skills did you use/learn in this project?
5.  What “extras” (colors, decorations, etc.) did you add to your project?
6.  What are some other uses you may have for a simple excel spreadsheet?

Answers

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2.A template is a model or standard for making comparisons
source: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=template

3. To calculate my data I used AutoSum.

4. From this project I learned how to use AutoSum and how to add pictures to Excel.

5. Extras I added to my project were colors of fonts and a picture.

6. Other things I can use Excel for are results for a dive meet, using it as a calendar for important dates, and questions and answers for assignments.

Monday, November 29, 2010