EDEL 3250-01

This week in computer, we continued on with digital stories! Me and Mailie decided we wanted to switch our topic, because Rosa parks wasn't working too great for us. Some of the pictures kept blurring when we viewed it, and so many of them were copy writed we couldnt find enough to make it to our time limit. So we went to somthing quite similar since we could still use some of the pictures we found. We decided to do the topic of segregation. We are just goint to talk about when it began the causes and effects and when it ended. It should be quite interesting. So we are kinda taking a time consuming risk and starting over EKKK!

I have had the chance to view a few of our classmates digital stories and there are some really good ones! Me and mailie are done writing our skit and are still gathering and putting the pictures in the correct places and working on how the pictures will enter the screen and exit with all the differet effects. It hard to get down to business and choose waht you want because there is so much variety its fun to play with all the different options.

So its finals week! Yikes! We have so much due. This semester has flown by, I have enjoyed learning all the was to integrate technology into my future classroom. I still have to be creative and think of how I am going to integrate Technology into our two lesson plans that are due for finals, but those might be kinda fun to write! Well one day at a time and this is my last blog for the semester! Peace out :D

EDEL 3250-01

So this week in computers we continued onward with our digital stories. Malie and I are doing our digital story on Rosa Parks. We feel that Rosa Parks is a good topic because she changed how the world works today by doing one silent act. When she refused to give up her seat on the bus it changed our world history forever. She ended segregation for the most part so we can all live equal lives. I think its amazing she had the courage to do such a thing.



We have actually had some fun creating our digital story. Malie found alot of cool pictures from google of Rosa Parks and also pictures that represented her and showed what she went through along with the layout of the bus where she was sitting which i thought was way cool. While Malie found the pictures I was writing the script and I learned so many cool things about Rosa and learned what an awesome person she was. Before making this digital story i really didnt even know who she was, I had just heard of her name.



I think Digital stories are a way useful tool in the classroom. When I was in field I found an awesome one of Life during The Great Depression and The Dust Bowl. It really reached out to the kids and gave them a real sense of feeling of what it would have been like to live through those times. I think Digital Stories are a great hook for a lesson and really spice things up. I look forward to finishing ours and being able to use it as a learning tool in the future.



For my video post this week, I watched a clip on Bruner because I needed to learn more about him to do a presentation for Psychology. It was a demonstration of teaching prime numbers using beans a type of "Discovery Learning" Which Bruner is a true believer in. It was interesting and made me agree that discovery learning is a very successful technique to teaching students!