For my last emergent technology, I chose to do a digital scrapbook. It was easy to sign up and upload pictures, but if you want a lot of pictures in your scrapbook it takes a while to upload. After that, you may choose a template or create your scrapbook from scratch. I started off with the blank scrapbook but i'm not very creative so I switched to a template. After that, it's really easy. You just choose the page template you want and move your photos to the image boxes. I didn't have any trouble at all while creating this. The only tip I have about this website is you must have patience. Like I said before, the pictures take a while to upload and the website is a little slow, which can be frustrating but it's definitely worth it!
Here's my scrapbook I made:
http://www.mixbook.com/photo-books/all/my-life-4742464
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Photoshow
I chose to create a Photoshow. I chose to do his emergent technology because I love taking pictures. I think they're a great way to remember fun times that you've had. Photoshow is basically like an online photo album slideshow. You upload the images you would like to display and are able to personalize the slideshow. You may add music, captions, clip art, etc. to make the slideshow your very own. I found it useful because it's a great way to keep all of my pictures together and you can save it on the Photoshow website, incase your computer crashes you won't lose your pictures.
I found Photoshow to be VERY user friendly. I could see myself even using this for teaching some day, allowing the parents to see pictures of what their children are doing in the classroom. You must sign up to save a slideshow, but it's free. First, you upload the pictures of your choice from your computer. You can even take pictures straight from Photobucket or Facebook. Once you have uploaded them, there are layouts you can choose from. After you choose a layout, you may personalize your slideshow but it's not require. Even personalizing it is user friendly from the easy navigation to adding borders and captions. After you are satisfied with the slideshow, you may save it. Photoshow even allows you to post it directly to websites such as Blogger, iGoogle, etc.
Here's my example:
http://www.photoshow.com/watch/sz2nu6Pu
There really aren't many tips for this emerging technology. Patience is needed while uploading pictures because this can take some time. If you have a lot of picures in your slideshow, it may become frustrating going through each picture and adding captions. I would suggest only adding captions when necessary. Overall, I thought Photoshow was a great website! I love having all of my pictures in a slideshow and it would be perfect to use in the classroom to keep the parents updated.
I found Photoshow to be VERY user friendly. I could see myself even using this for teaching some day, allowing the parents to see pictures of what their children are doing in the classroom. You must sign up to save a slideshow, but it's free. First, you upload the pictures of your choice from your computer. You can even take pictures straight from Photobucket or Facebook. Once you have uploaded them, there are layouts you can choose from. After you choose a layout, you may personalize your slideshow but it's not require. Even personalizing it is user friendly from the easy navigation to adding borders and captions. After you are satisfied with the slideshow, you may save it. Photoshow even allows you to post it directly to websites such as Blogger, iGoogle, etc.
Here's my example:
http://www.photoshow.com/watch/sz2nu6Pu
There really aren't many tips for this emerging technology. Patience is needed while uploading pictures because this can take some time. If you have a lot of picures in your slideshow, it may become frustrating going through each picture and adding captions. I would suggest only adding captions when necessary. Overall, I thought Photoshow was a great website! I love having all of my pictures in a slideshow and it would be perfect to use in the classroom to keep the parents updated.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My Experience with RSS
The 5 articles I chose were E News, iTunes new 25 songs, Blogger, Emerging Technology Trends, and Latest Education Articles. For E News, it gives me the top three stories about gossip and celebrities, which is exactly what I was looking for. When I click on the stories, it goes into more detail. iTunes gives me an updated list of 25 brand new songs which I find very convenient. Blogger shows me my posts which allows me easy access to my blogs. Emerging Technology Trends and Latest Education Articles both give me updated news and information on technology and education. I have never used an RSS feed nor known what it was, but I found this very helpful. There are many websites that I get on and check frequently, and by using iGoogle, all of my websites can be in one spot. This makes it easy to check the latest information in the things I'm interested in and it is so easy! I will definitely use this daily now that I know about it. I also never knew that it was possible to take snapshots of your computer screen. The hyperlink that was posted in Module 4 to help take a snapshot was not working, so I had to search for it myself. All you have to do it press "Alt" along with "Prnt Scrn" and you can paste it in a Word document. I thought this was really interesting! I learned a lot from this Module.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Podcast
Looking for Alaska - A quote from Looking for Alaska by John Green
I found this podcast a little more challenging to do. I started out by recording myself on audacity after I downloaded it. I managed to figure out how to select pieces of my recording and just press the delete button to delete out things I didn't want. I also selected some parts of my recordings and went to 'Effects' and played around with those. I thought that was pretty easy until it came time to put it onto my blog. It wouldn't upload as a video so I went to some websites to upload my recording. Audacity saves the files as .aud instead of the typical .mp3 so my recording wouldn't upload to any website. I finally went to 'File' and 'Export as Mp3' but it wouldn't let me do it without installing another free program, Lame. I installed the program and it finally worked and saved as an .mp3 file. I then went to yourlisten.com and uploaded my recording and thankfully there was a link on the website to upload to Blogger. This was definitely a little more challenging but once again, patience is the key. Hope that helped everyone out :)
I found this podcast a little more challenging to do. I started out by recording myself on audacity after I downloaded it. I managed to figure out how to select pieces of my recording and just press the delete button to delete out things I didn't want. I also selected some parts of my recordings and went to 'Effects' and played around with those. I thought that was pretty easy until it came time to put it onto my blog. It wouldn't upload as a video so I went to some websites to upload my recording. Audacity saves the files as .aud instead of the typical .mp3 so my recording wouldn't upload to any website. I finally went to 'File' and 'Export as Mp3' but it wouldn't let me do it without installing another free program, Lame. I installed the program and it finally worked and saved as an .mp3 file. I then went to yourlisten.com and uploaded my recording and thankfully there was a link on the website to upload to Blogger. This was definitely a little more challenging but once again, patience is the key. Hope that helped everyone out :)
Monday, February 1, 2010
Introduction
Hello! My name is Kristin Roth and I am 19 years old. I currently live in Westfield, Indiana with my parents and graduated from Westfield High School this past June. I am going to school full time and I work at Smoky Row Elementary School in Carmel. I work every morning and three days a week after school so I am constantly busy. On my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my friends and boyfriend. I moved to Indiana about five years ago from Florida, so winter is still rough for me! I am definitely not used to it yet. I plan on moving back to Florida in a few years to teach. I have a two year old niece that is in Florida and I would love to be able to be at the same school as her!
I found Blogger very simple to use. I've had to create blogs for other classes and I used LiveJournal, which I thought was a little more difficult. This site is very user friendly with the templates and other options that are available. Uploading the slideshow was the only semi-difficult task to do, but as long as you have the website (http://slideshare.net) and patiences you'll be fine! I think blogs are a great idea. For example, as a teacher you get stressed a lot so blogging is a way to vent. Also, parents love to know what is going on in the classroom. I think it is a good idea to post what you guys did each day, or maybe even just a weekly post. At my work, we try and post on Twitter as much as possible and the parents love it!
I found Blogger very simple to use. I've had to create blogs for other classes and I used LiveJournal, which I thought was a little more difficult. This site is very user friendly with the templates and other options that are available. Uploading the slideshow was the only semi-difficult task to do, but as long as you have the website (http://slideshare.net) and patiences you'll be fine! I think blogs are a great idea. For example, as a teacher you get stressed a lot so blogging is a way to vent. Also, parents love to know what is going on in the classroom. I think it is a good idea to post what you guys did each day, or maybe even just a weekly post. At my work, we try and post on Twitter as much as possible and the parents love it!
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