EDLD 5366 Animation

EDLD 5366 Personal Logo

My design seems extremely simple, but in a way so am I.  I feel that even though my design may not reflect the amount of knowledge I have learned; I have truly learned a great deal from this assignment.  I researched and played with several photo editing software programs.  I finally chose pixlr.com.  This website is free and extremely easy to use.  I kept my original idea of using a light bulb to represent the ideas that I help teachers come up with.  I originally planned to use blue text in my logo to represent loyalty.  When working on the logo, I thought the blue looked cheesy (for lack of a better word).  I decided to stick with plain, black font color.  I feel the color of the font ties it into the image and creates a cohesive look to the logo.  I am pleased with my logo.  It is simple and understated like me. 

EDLD 5363 Group Project

Below is the link to our group project over comparing fractions. I was extremely fortunate to have such an amazing group. Thank you Becky Brandon, Joseph Cantu, James Coates and Scott January!
 

Signore Fractioneri vs the Denominator Pizza Pie

EDLD 5363 Web Conference Reflections

Week 1-June 4, 2013 @ 7:00 pm: I missed the Week 1 web conference due to Mom and Me swim lessons with my son. I came home and immediately began watching the recording. To my surprise, everyone instantly started forming groups. I was in an absolute panic. I went to our Facebook group and pleaded for anyone to accept me into his or her already formed group. As I posted in Facebook, James Coates was asking for the same help from a group. Joseph Cantu came to the rescue and invited James and I to join his group with Becky Brandon and Scott January. I was immediately relieved. The web conference set the expectations for the course and gave a good overview of things to come.

 Week 4-June 29, 2013 @ 10:00 am: I was unable to attend this web conference as well. I am extremely grateful that Dr. Abernathy records the conferences. Dr. Abernathy confirmed that nothing is due in Week 4 , but we needed to make sure we are writing in our Google doc each week. She also clarified that no reflections, or discussions are required this week. We need to put the link to our final Google site with our video in the Week 4 Discussion. Dr. Abernathy spent the remainder of the conference clarifying the same type questions. Watching the conference made me feel like I was on the right track for the final week ahead.

iMovie Tutorial

iMovie Tutorial Script

Hello and welcome to a short and basic iMovie tutorial.  When you start, click File, New Project.  You will see several project themes that you can choose from.  I prefer to use the “No Theme” for creative purposes.  Here is where the project is located and this is where the new events are.  I have already uploaded a video to save some time.  The Swap button moves your events and project locations.  It is really more of a personal preference.  I like to move them for easier access when moving photos to the project.  I will add several photos.  When you click on your movie a yellow box will appear.  The yellow box allows you to edit your clip.  You can scroll through and watch the edited version on the side.  When you are happy with your clip you can drag it down to your project.  On the right side of the screen are the options to import music, videos, text and transitions.  To add text, simple drag the tile to the project.  Notice the green bar.  Wherever the green bar appears is where the object will go.  Then we have transitions.  If you hold your mouse over the tile you will see a preview of the transition.  I am going to quickly add transitions to the project.  Notice the green bar.  We can click the Play button to watch our movie.  When we are happy with it we can go to File, and Finalize Project.  This will allow us to export our movie and upload it to any website we desire.  Thank you and I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. 

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Audacity Tutorial

Audacity Video Tutorial Script

Hello, thank you for joining us.   Today we are going to have a quick video tutorial over Audacity.  Audacity is a free audio editor.  It is available for Windows and for Mac.  If you go to Google and type Audacity download it will take you to the webpage that will allow you to download the file you need.  If we look into the program, we have six main functions at the top of the page.  They are the pause button, play button, stop button, skip to the beginning and skip to the end, and record.  It is a very simple program.  If we click the record button, it will record our voice.  When we are finished talking, we click the stop button.  Go to File and we have two options to choose from.  The Save Project As allows us to save our audio file.  As a side note, if you choose this you can only use your audio file in Audacity.  We are going to choose the Export option.  This will allow us to use our Audacity file in any program.  We will give the file a name.  We can choose where we would like to save it and it has several format options.  Click Save and your audio file has been created.  Thank you for your time.  I hope that you enjoyed it.

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EDLD 5363-Week 1 Digital Story