Guys walking smiling having a good time, looking down, guy in back at a crane.
Boat, ocean
Talking up a storm, enjoying time
Guys determined, talking in thought
In deep thought, worried, on a mission. More worried than the ones on the left.
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President
Greenery, maybe a garden or outside of a window
In deep thought, thinking I did something wrong what do I do now, maybe thinking he is done and worried that there is nothing he can do now to fix it.
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If I had to choose between the two pictures I would choose the second one. In the first picture it looks like he is having a great time with no care in the world besides the moment that he is in with his friends. In the second picture it seems as if he is in a deep thought and that he is focused and concerned about a situation that is going on. I know that I want to have a leader that is going to be there when things get tuff and get things done in a timely manner.
The digital storytelling program is a program to help enhance learning, teaching, or personal use. You are able to tell a story with pictures, music and captions and it also helps you get a point across. I have used story telling in a personal prespective and in a memorial perspective. I would recommend anyone to use this program, it is an easy program to use and an enjoyable one to do. With storytelling and ISTE NETS-T we can use and promote many experiences with both of these programs. Both programs help to inspire students to new learnings, they can use digital learning experiences, and promote and model digital citizenship. They may promote learning in the future in the classroom by doing more lessons and activities by using these programs. It can and hopefully will hold the attention span of students longer than what a "normal" classroom lesson would. I know that in school with some lessons I think this would have been much better than listening to boring lectures. Students may be more willing to reach their potential and take that next step to technology that they were afraid to do before.
Lesson Plan: My classroom would be making their own poems about their family. When they are done writing a peom they would use storytelling to actually tell the poem. They would use pictures of their choice along with text of their poem. I think the sudents will enjoy using this and making a movie that can represent his or her family.
THOUGHT:
Yes, students can post their multimedia project to you tube, they must have a copyright notice and also a citation on their video. However if you tube was an unsecured website they would not be allowed to do so. Yes there is a limit to the amount of pictures and or videos and music used in a multimedia project. According to the article "Copyright in an Electronic Environment", illustrations are no more than 5 images of an artists or photographers work. If you are using a collection there will be no more than 10% or 15 images, which ever is less/ Also according to this article the following is in play with music; up yo 10% of copyrighted musical composition, but no more than 30 seconds, up to 10% of a body of sound recording, but no more than 30 seconds, and no alterations of any sort. Students and educators do not need to ask for permission to use copyrighted materials as long as it falls under the fair use guidelines.
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As with any art form, digital story-telling continues to evolve to accommdate new technologies, purposes, and creative visions. The important question for educators to ask is, "What does digital storytelling offer education?" The answer is "a great deal," if we do two things: focus on the story first and the digital medium later; and use digital storytelling to enhance students' skills in critical thinking, expository writting, and media lieracy.
THOUGHT:
My thought on this quote brings me back to the question of "What does digital storytelling offer education?" It can bring a lot on the plate as far as learning and teaching. As a teacher you will have days that you will have to miss for various reasons. You could use storytelling as a lesson for when you are not there. Yes you would still have a substitute, but step it up a notch and teach via stories. As a learning experience for students, you could have them come up with their own lesson and let them teach it to the class using this. I know as a teacher I will use this tool a lot.
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CREDITS:
Ohler, J. (2005). The world of digital storytelling. Educational Leadership, 64(3), 44-47.
Austory. (Designer). (2008). Discovering digital stories. [Web Video]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yU8zE5LBBY
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And so it is rather bizarre that the first widespread change in how people spell English words appears to have come from a group of (largely) young people sending text messages to one another with cellular phones and other electronic devices. You may not like seeing the phrase “LOL — U R gr8” on the page, but it is common enough that you are likely to understand it. Why have such inadvertent “reforms” succeeded where generations of dedicated intellectual attempts have not? And will they last?
My Thought:
I believe that many generations before did not succeed for many reasons. Society is an ever changing thing in everything we do from jobs to technology. Many older people may not have fought for what they wanted and possibly gave up. If they would have kept at what they were doing and put it out there they may have gotten what they wanted with the spelling of different words. I know that many words have different meaning and spellings for those meanings so in a way they did get that. I believe that in a way todays generation uses these abbrevations possibly due to laziness. I know that is one reason why I use them, sometimes I am in a hurry and just want to get done texting or instant messaging. Someone will still be using these 10 years from now, if not something better.
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Referance:
shopbizland, (2011). Text message abbreviations - sms dictionary examples [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6c_TZmOl0M
Ammon Shea. (2010, January 22). The keypad solution. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24FOB-onlanguage-t.html
After taking this test I have learned that I am a Multimodal learner, with the following scores: visual 7, aural 6, read/write 8 and kinesthetic 8. With this learning I am among 60% of the population. For being a visual learner I learn better from graphs, pictures, and slides. I am not one into the text books, they put to much information in the book that does not belong there. As a aural learner, I do attend class regularly, and take notes thats not always clear notes for myself to read and sometimes I get myself lost in trying to figure out what I am talking about. My reading and writing learning I read the book or handouts and also write notes or outlines about what I read. I honestly thing that this is the best way that I learn. Kinesthetic learning I always combine everything I do, it maybe be 1 or more of each category but I do use them all. I do believe that my learning test was accurate, I am more of a hands on and reading short material compared to reading and cramming of long boring text books.
Another form of control on mobiles is deciding whether to talk or text. I might choose to send a text message rather than call to keep the communication short (meaning, "I don't want to get bogged down in a conversation in which I'm obligated to listen to what you have to say"). In cross-cultural research I conducted last year, more than one-third of the Swedish, U.S., and Italian university students I surveyed said "keeping the message short" was an important reason for texting rather than talking.
MY THOUGHT:
I believe that this is so true. I know that I look at my phone and see who is calling me and if I really don't want to talk to that person I won't answer it. If it is someone that I can text I will in a heartbeat. There is something about texting that I would much rather text then talk. I know that the older generation of my family HATES the fact that we text instead of talking. If the older generations would have been introduced to this technology sooner I believe they would have been fine with it. My grandma will sometimes asks me to text someone and see how someone is doing, and she is 78 and knows that it is part of who this generation became. The only bad part that the texting has to offer to us is texting while driving. I know that I do this and I have almost got in an accident or two, but I have calmed down with it. Texting has come to be a way of living for some and it is here to stay for a while.
In this class we used poll everywhere to determine what words we were going to use to create our wordle. Poll everywhere we asked a question to the class, and they answered it creating a word list for the owner of the poll. We then took the answers and created our wordle, the answers were created into the wordle with the most frequent answers being bigger and bolder and so on.
By being a teach I would use these tools in the classroom as much as possible to make the class not so boring. I think it will get students out there to use these and make it easier on projects by getting the feedback they would need. Students don't always get to have the ability to explore these areas, escpecially if they don't know about them. I know that I did not learn about any of these until this semester when taking this class. I am glad that I was able to explore these options to bring into my classroom, and hopefully to promote these skills to other students.
With my Education focusing on FACS I would use polls everywhere to ask the students what type of project they would like to engage in for their sewing project. With this I would still let the student pick their individual projects, but let them see as a class what the overall choices were. I would include the poll and wordle into a powerpoint lecture and let them see how this worked. I would then have them use these tools later on as a group project.
