Final Post of the Year!!

Wow!! It's the end of the school year! I seriously can't believe it. This has been such a crazy class, but it was great all at the same time. We pretty much just came up with something that we thought would be fun to do, made a criteria sheet, and began to learn by exploring different programs. I really feel like I have learned a lot of new stuff about tech this year. At the beginning of the year I felt very confident in my tech skill especially when it came to microsoft word and power point, but Mr.A brought it to a new level and I know now more than I ever have about microsoft office. I also learned a lot more about website making, blogging, garage band, imoive, and so much more.

Final Project

I think I finally found a software that will work on pc's for screen recording, but I haven't downloaded it yet. I'm going to try get some recording and uploading done in class today and the rest at home. :)

A Website Made Outside of Class

Hey Everyone! :) So it would be awesome if you guys would please check out me and my friends business website. We make cake pops for many occasions and the first order we get through our website gets 25% off! Check it out here!

The End of Wiki and the Start of the Final Project

So we've finally kind of finished the wiki, minus the fact that we have to complete the final project part of it. Now we are starting the final projects. For my final project I am making a youtube channel called, techsamurai23. Here, I'm posting screen recording tutorials that show how to do several of the projects that we've done throughout the year. I think this would be awesome because not only could I display what I learned, but I could help people from all over learn some new things.

Class Wiki

So, now that we've completed making our own websites, we are now making a class wiki! A wiki is pretty much one website with many people working to create it, instead of just one. Our wiki goes over everything we've done throughout this entire year and showcases every individual's projects. It took about 2 weeks but it's basically done now. We just have to figure out how to blur some personal info on peoples word processing artifacts. Our next project which we have to complete is our final project. It has to be mind blowing and awesome!

Website Evaluation Reflection

So for my website evaluation I found that I need to work on the content of my site and this visual appeal. I didn't have any widgets or audio in the background which I totally forgot we had to have. It may have been helpful to have a list in docs where we could follow the criteria. Also on the visual appeal, some of my pictures are bigger than the others and others aren't in line. I tried to figure this out but google sites is really stupid and there really isn't a way that I know of. Maybe a google search might help me figure it out. So, my websites not to bad just a few little things :)

Here's the data I collected with my survey evaluation

Video Project Summary

So our video projects are finally done and I think they turned out pretty cool! :) It was fun to watch every ones different ideas. I think some things I could have fixed on mine was the quality of the video as it wasn't very clear, but I didn't have time to re film. Another thing was that mine wasn't very entertaining in my opinion, so I need to work on my creativity. But otherwise I feel like I learned some cool features of iMovie I never knew about like adding music in the background, and separating the audio from the video. One of my clips actually had the audio separated and I lined it up. One thing that I would change that was kind of annoying was the block out. It took forever to do and I didn't find it very useful at all. So yeah, to sum it up I reviewed a few things but I learned some new things as well and it was an easy project to do.

Video Projects Concludes

Hi everyone! So, with spring break and all this catching up, I totally forgot to blog. Not to much has happened in the past two weeks though. In class, we filmed our movies and then we spent a week splicing them together and such. I learned how to extract the audio from a movie so I could line it up with different videos and how to add sound effects. Next class we are uploading them, so it should be fun to watch. Next I think we are doing some social networking stuff and then our final projects, so that should be fun :)

Video Project Block-Out and Script

So, I finished my Block out and Script. It took me forever because I am not super creative when it comes to these things, and I couldn't make my script long enough because there is more action rather than dialogue. I feel like it will still be at least 3 min though, but I added a commercial just in case :) Next, I have to figure out who my actors are going to be and all that stuff. Should be fun and interesting.

Video Projects

So, I haven't posted for a bit, but what we have been doing in class is a video project. I have found this to be REALLY challenging because I'm not super creative when it comes to things like this, so I came up with this really dumb block-out about this games show. Now I am working on the script but this is also super challenging because I don't know how to add any humor to it or make it interesting.
So ya, this project is going to be a harder one :)

Photo, Sound, and Video Editing Software

       So for our assignment, we had to find a photo, video, and sound editing software and blog about it. Here is what I found.
       For a photo editing software I found an app for Ipad called Snapseed. I only have the lite version, as I don't want to pay the full price, but even for the lite version I really think that you can do a lot with a photo, you can add several effects, change the saturation, brightness, color tone, etc. Also, since there is a new update, there are a lot of other cool features too.
       Last, I found an app that does both sound and video editing all in one. It's called VideoStar. This app allows you to create music videos and you can edit the video by slowing it down, speeding it up, changing the color, etc. Also, when choosing a song before you start making the video, you can adjust the speed and pitch for the song. I have found that Taylor Swift sounds great as a guy when you turn her songs down to a lower pitch. LOL! I totally recommend this app. Check out Ellie's blog if you want to see a music video we made with her, her sister Abbie, and Elise :)

So these were some of my findings that hopefully you will find cool and useful too!

Photo Editing

So, today we started photo editing, which I am excited for because I love taking photos! :) However, I found the fireworks application to be confusing and hard to work with. I much rather prefer photo editing apps on my iPad. Hopefully fireworks will become easier to use. I'll post a pic of the photo edit I made later :)

3/4/13

In class, we showed our storytime projects. There were actually some really great ones that I enjoyed watching. I was also able to help Abbie B. with uploading her storybook from iMovie on her iPod to Google Drive, so I definetely learned something new. This wasn't anything to new for me but it was a quick and easy project that let me learn a few more things about iMovie.

Storybooks Finished :)

So the storybook project is finally done! :) I found this way easier to do than the garage band project and I really liked the way my story turned out. I think the hardest part was making the Kens Burn effects work right so that you could see both the pictures and words from the page.

Storybook

I am enjoying the storybook project way more than the garage band one. In class I was able to get my recordings in. Now I just need to time it and record the name of the title of the book.