Today in class we talked about the different online video and audio converters that we can use in our future classrooms. These actually seem to be really helpful and are very easy to use. Most of them only take a few seconds and then produce the newly converted file ready for download. Honestly though, the first thing I thought of was how easy it would be to use these to get free music from youtube. But hey, that probably ran through most people's minds. I guess theres always a downside to accessible technology.
I also spent a good chunk of class working on my Project A as well. It seems to be coming along very well. At first it was a little confusing selecting the rubric format on the Rubistar website, but once I realized that I could make up whatever categories I wanted to it was pretty easy. The online tool I am using is WiseMapping. It is not as easy and fun to use at it first originally looked, but it got the job done, and I was able to alter the colors, which was really my main creative focus. Looking back on my creation of the project I realized that it might be a little difficult of a young student to use.
We then looked at an online voice recording tools. That actually looked pretty cool. Aside from needing a microphone to speak into this also looked very easy to use. The online recording tool could also be used to record a youtube or online video. I could definitely picture myself getting into shenanigans with something like this.
Finally we worked a bit with Screencasting. This is something that is super handy and invloves recording what you are doing on the computer for the purpose of teaching computer activities. I found this to be pretty cool. I was able to record my Prezi creation very easily. Unfortunately after starting to record I remembered that I have actually never made a full Prezi before and ended up recording myself fumbling about and trying to figure it out as I went. Regardless I learned how to screencast which was the main purpose.
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