I have recently been able to TOC in a digital visual arts course for a week in a middle school. The grade 6s are working in photoshop, creating collages, photo-crashing squirrels, and eventually will turn their own faces into Avatars (the blue movie version). The grade 7s are doing photography, taking photos and using photoshop to adjust temperature, crop, etc. I have been able to learn these skills, as the students learn. While trying to crop an image online I found it quite easy, as I had many more challenging moments in that week where I needed to ‘help’ students, while sometimes learning some of these skills on my own at the same time. I wish there were more online free editors like google picassa. Also, the grade 8’s in this course create and edit their own movies, and I have much experience in making my own iMovies and iDVDs (I just came back from Disneyworld and created several for my friends). I did not try to create an educational video for my LMS site, as I’m not sure how I could incorporate it into my reading and writing unit. However, I believe (based on past experience), that I will spend many hours editing, as I can never feel that it is perfect enough….maybe a video would be too much for me at this time?

In terms of audio, I have used audacity before as a member in my group project in a previous course recommended it because of her experience in 565! I think this program is great, and I can’t wait to use it more when we are doing digital storytelling (I think that’s what she said she used it for?)

Posted: 06|9|11 at 5:20 pm. Filed under: Uncategorized.
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