Sunday, November 30, 2008
Micah's 5th Birthday
Alright, I tried out animoto and made this 30 second video from Micah's 5th birthday, back in June of 2008. It is a pretty neat tool. I was wondering the difference between this and photostory when I saw animoto on A Library by any other Name. VWB explained that in Photostory you have more control and it is a program that you download to your computer. Animoto is web-based--(I guess you make your video in cyberspace). I found out that I will need to organize my photos on Flickr in order to better download images to animoto. I recently upgraded my Flickr account so that I put all my digital photos on it (that's about4000). Since they are not organized, animoto downloaded 100 pics, and I couldn't figure out how to change what they were going to download. Then I had to delete over 80 pictures because the video will only take 10 to 15. Maybe a better way would be for me to download the 10 or 15 pics I want to my computer and then upload to animoto. I will definitely have to play with this more.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Library and the Digital age
I found this slideshow on Naomi Bates Blog and wanted to make sure I save it, but also share it. I want to study all of the information on it but am currently finishing projects for my classes at UHCL. Although, I may be using it as a reference for one of them. I hope someone else will use this as well.
Monday, November 24, 2008
a new tool
I heard about this comic book generator from VWB at A Library byAny other Name so I tried it out. It was not as user friendly as I would have liked, but Idid manage to create something. I'm sure that kids that are into making things like this would figure out all the 'bells and whistles of the program better than I did. I had a little trouble finding the speech bubbles--so I saved my work and logged out. As soon as I did the speech bubbles became a choice again, so I added them. I was able to add them without being logged in, but when I went to save, I had to log in. If you give it a try--you might want to put out your scenes first. Then pick your creatures and put them in each frame. (There is a 'recently used' that can help, but I think there is also a couple of views of the same creature and it is difficult to find if you don't get them out at the same time. You can always delete them if you decide you don't need them.) Hopefully when your are ready for speech bubbles, you won't have the difficulty that I had. If I have time, I may try to add to my book. However, it may be Christmas before I get back to it.
Thing #23
My favorite discoveries on this learning journey were photostory, igoogle, flickrtoys, and reaping the benefits of my RSS. Just since my post last night, I have shared my photostory with 5 people and encouraged them to download it and make one of their own. Since I have discovered igoogle, I have shared with everyone who spends time on the computer to check it out for it's benefits, including the Reader. I have also shared the variety of items I made with flickrtoys with many as well. I have received updates on my RSS and discovered new blogs to add that have great updates as well on what is going on in the library and technology world.
This program has assisted and affected my lifelong learning goals in a variety of ways. Without my RSS, I would not have been keeping up with new information in the library world, so I would continue to find out about new innovations and programs after they have been out for a while. I want to be able to assist teachers, students, friends and family with technology that will make their life easier and/or meet their interests and needs. I now have a 'new tool box' to start with to be able to be a 'helper' in this way.
I guess the unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised me would be how much I learned! I am still learning new things about the different tools each day by using them, but I know enough to actually be able to utilize them and help others to learn about them and use them also.
One thing I would say to do differently to improve upon this program’s format is to actually have checkpoints throughout the program with due dates. I realize it was set up in weeks, but within our class it was not required to follow this. It should have been followed. Check points throughout the course would get some of the items (like RSS) set up early enough in the program to realize the benefit of it before you are done with the 23 things.
I would love to participate in another discovery program like this in the future.
My learning experience in ONE SENTENCE is that by investigating these 'new tools', I see how easy the designers are making it for anyone to use technology with ease.
This program has assisted and affected my lifelong learning goals in a variety of ways. Without my RSS, I would not have been keeping up with new information in the library world, so I would continue to find out about new innovations and programs after they have been out for a while. I want to be able to assist teachers, students, friends and family with technology that will make their life easier and/or meet their interests and needs. I now have a 'new tool box' to start with to be able to be a 'helper' in this way.
I guess the unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised me would be how much I learned! I am still learning new things about the different tools each day by using them, but I know enough to actually be able to utilize them and help others to learn about them and use them also.
One thing I would say to do differently to improve upon this program’s format is to actually have checkpoints throughout the program with due dates. I realize it was set up in weeks, but within our class it was not required to follow this. It should have been followed. Check points throughout the course would get some of the items (like RSS) set up early enough in the program to realize the benefit of it before you are done with the 23 things.
I would love to participate in another discovery program like this in the future.
My learning experience in ONE SENTENCE is that by investigating these 'new tools', I see how easy the designers are making it for anyone to use technology with ease.
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