Final week of EDEL 3250!

This week we are putting the final touches on our digital story. We are still trying to locate a few sources of pictures that we are using. We are adding audio to the story and need to add the music. I can't wait to see what it turns out like. I'm also excited to share it with the class and see the other digital stories that our class has created.

I am glad that I have learned how to make a digital story and think it would be useful in my other classes and at home and work. It would be neat to make an emotional and engaging presentation for work using this format. I would also love to use it to make engaging digital photo albums. Digital storymaking is a great tool!

I feel that I have learned so much in this class. I look forward to using my skills to enrich my classroom. The first thing that I learned was how to follow what the teacher is doing on the computer on a projector and relate it to my computer. It has also been amazing to learn how to set up google docs, my own class website, make my own calender and homework lists, record podcasts and vidcasts, make webquests, digital stories, and lesson plans using uber media. I feel like I've learned a lot in this class although I have much more to learn. I'm sure with media it's vital to always learn and utilize the latest technology in order to give students the best learning opportunities.

Digital story December 4, 2009

This week I have been continuing to work on my digital story. It's been fun to collect images, put them in order, and manipulate them. I have been learning how to use Photostory. It's amazing how many things you can do and how simple it is to use. This week my group is also going to add narration, credits, and music. I can't wait to see how it turns out!

I would love to use this tool for lesson plans or projects in other classes. I would also like to use it to make a digital story of something like a wedding, baptism, or eagle ceremony. It would also be neat to do a life history using a digital story. It would also be useful to teach my children so they could make one for a school project. At their school they can do a research project which they present to the class. It would be really fun to do it in a digital story.

I feel like my view is opening to all the media that is available to students to use. I would love to use digital stories in my lesson plans at school. It would also be neat to teacher older students how to create a digital story. I could envision using a digital story to go along with a class presentation on Vetran's Day, for example. I think this knowledge will make me a better teacher and colleague.

I watch a video called Managing Millennials by Lynne Lancaster. She had many good ideas about managing millennials born from 1980-2000. She had many good insights about the characteristics of different generations and how to work together. She said the millenials are confident, hopeful, practical, and goal oriented. She said in order to recruit them companies need to be up to date, have strong values, set expectations, and allow millenials to collaborate with others. Lancaster also suggested that supervisers be leaders, keep millenials challenged, make work fun, repect the millenial's ideas, and be flexible. I think that the rising generation is competent and intelligent. We need to work together with them to achieve together.