Voicethread

I was not able to make it to class last week. However, following Professor Ross's tutorials I was able to learn about Audacity and teach myself the ins and outs of working with VoiceThread. I created a voicethread talking about my thoughts, feelings, and reactions throughout the semester of this class. I had a lot of fun making my voicethread and had lots of great things to say about INTC2610. I really enjoyed working on this project and wish I had gotten a chance to watch other students videothreads before coming into this class at the beginning of the semester. Throughout my voicethread I spoke about some of my favorite things we learned throughout the course of this semester and concluded my project with some advice and answers to questions for future students. Seeing as how this is my last blog post, I would like to take the time to say that overall, I really enjoyed this course and truly do feel as though it is one of the most beneficial classes I have taken thus far here at Stockton. I really retained a lot of new information and became more comfortable with technology and cannot wait to apply what I have learned from class into my future classrooms! Thanks Professor Ross for an awesome semester!

Photostory

This week in class we learned how to use the program Photostory. First, for practice we learned how to upload pictures into the program. Then we set motion to the pictures and learned how to read into the program. Reciting a poem about butterflies, we read lines of the poem to go along with the pictures of the butterflies. Then, to finish our assignments we put background music into our presentations. Then, we did a similar assignment but with a longer story to get more practice. To finish up the class, we began our own individual assignments using Photostory to go along with a lesson plan we could use in our future classrooms. I chose to create a lesson plan using Photostory that introduces the characters of the well-known novel, The Outsiders.
I really like this program. I think it can be extremely useful for teachers in making interesting classroom lectures and activities that will keep the students intrigued. I also feel as though this program is a fun way for students to present information and learn their way around the computer a little more. The examples of assignments done by Professor Ross's previous students were interesting and fun to see!