Flat Stanley Project Slideshow

I decided to try out Picture Trail, as Laurence mentioned in class. I found it very easy to use; I just looked around the page and tried out the features. Sometimes, that's all it takes for some softwares to work well. Having all the information laid out neatly and organized. I sometimes enjoy the step by step instruction; but, at times I want to have the freedom to surf around in different order.

In my future classroom, I'd like to use Picture Trail on our class blog--perhaps with student pictures, during activities, school functions and while students are doing school work. It is a very versatile software for project on pictures; it can be flamboyant or simple for appropriate presentation of pictures. It is made for both leisure or professional activities--which makes it a very useful tool.

Flat Stanley Project Video

I enjoyed using Jumpcut, very similar to the i-movie. I was getting stuck in between putting my movie together... gee, two clips--and I felt it was complicated until I searched around and tried out some options... Even if I was exposed to i-movie its been awhile since I last made one, I can't really compare the difference. But I liked how the features we're user friendly--I easily found the features to cut, duplicate, undo; which I really enjoyed (since, I couldn't make up my mind with how I wanted my movie to look like)

Jumpcut, can easily be used by students even at elementary level. Teacher's just need to give clear directions or walk them through the process of using the software. In the future, I'd like to see move effects, actions, and title styles. However, the audio feature is a cool idea. This time I didn't make use of the feature because of the video; one of the clips had low volume--which made me cut out the audio feature.

Electronic Web-Based Professional Portfolio

Here the url to my resume on Weebly.com
http://damallari.weebly.com

While constructing my resume on weebly, I did not encounter any problems or difficulties. It was easy to understand, since many of the features are visually represented which I found as a plus factor. Moreover, students at a young age will find it easy to navigate around the site and create a resume.

However, the next time I visited weebly to edit and publish my resume. Fonts were changing in size and not alignment were shifting. It brought be frustration to readjust my whole resume. Maybe I was pressing on some buttons that caused the changes;but, eventually I got my resume together. Moreover, I'd like to go back to weebly and try it out again and see what works with me. There are other activities that can be done on weebly and I will try to look over them during the summer.

Using Weblogs in K-12 Curriculum

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My power point presentation was on "Using Weblogs in the K-12 Curriculum." I chose this topic because it can be a very versatile tool in the classroom regardless of age and grade. It just needs to be structured age appropriately, take precautions, and a sparkle of creativity!

I learned that Weblogs can be used to for all subjects. It is at the teacher's discretion of information that will be posted; they have the authority to facilitate the activities that can and will be done on the weblog. Students need to be briefed on the limitations of posting and language usage. Weblogs, enable students to be expressive and creative about their work and feelings.

A great idea that I would like to try out in my future classroom is to have a class weblog. Each of my student will have a chance to have their blogs and I will choose projects to be posted on to the their blogs. I will have them take appropriate pictures of school and class activities which they are to post and reflect on. Moreover, on the main class page will be information about school and class activities, upcoming events, electronic copies of homeworks and classworks--students and parents will be able to view in the case of absents, grades, pictures and blogs of each student.