Over the past week in Mike Nantais' ICT course, as a group we have had a blast trying new techy programs that have been introduced to us. We started the week by creating 30 second videos, by using a simple program called
Animoto. Each of us picked 8 or so personal photos that are related in some sort of way (theme) and inserted them into Animoto program. From there, you add your own text and background design, and Animoto puts it all together for you. This program is simple enough to try with primary school students. Later in the week, we were shown a few programs that enable us to edit photos the way we want using programs such Pixlr. This is far from new, but it was actually first time I have gave it a try and it is something I will use in the future in and out of the classroom. As well as learning this, we have learned about the importance of teaching your students how to source images that they may use from the Internet (copyright issues).
Mike's approach to teaching our course lately is an excellent one, as he been introducing new ideas on a day to day basis and this has me looking forward to what he will show us next. Having students that are excited to learn new things everyday is what teaching is all about and that is what Mike has accomplished I think with our group.
Websites used for last weeks tech tasks...Give them a try!
Animoto:
Pixlr:
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