Week 6 Review

Today we worked on pod-casting using GarageBand. GarageBand is a fairly simple application to use. You drag and drop photos into the program, and stretch or shorten them depending on how long you need them to be. Recording is also easy, push a button and talk into your mic. Then add a background jingle to your podcast. There are many to choose from, you just drag and drop just like you would with your pictures.

Week 5 Review

This week I got a chance to help set up the white board. I have never worked with it before like this, so that was interesting. I don't like that this particular white board was set up with a projector. It makes it really hard to see!! I like the ones Ive seen that you can get in front of it, and there is no projector, so students (and you) can still see what you are doing.
We discussed the eight guidelines of media literacy, and got to make thought-provoking questions to ask the class, who answered using clickers. The clickers are awesome, and would be a lot of fun in the classroom (I don't remember their actual name).

We played with a bunch of search engines. The three popular ones; google, yahoo, and bing. As well as some new ones I've never heard of, some that don't really work, and others that just steal what the popular ones have.

Then we looked at different websites, and evaluated if they were real or fake. Most were fake. Mine looked real, but it turned out they took and copied everything from the actual website.