Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Garage band with vocals?
Kind of interested to see how garage band with vocals will go in calss. I would bring a recording, but I don't know what program to use. This should be interesting.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Garage Band/ Semester Summary
Last class, we kind of "started over" with garage band, because the majority of the calss was incredibly confused on it, including me. Our podcast assignment is going to come later. What we did is just simply play with the pre-programmed tunes on garage band to make our own songs. This was kind of fun, and I enjoyed listening to small songs everyone else made. I feel like I am finally really understanding some of the things that garage band can do and I am so glad we are taking it in small pieces.
In addition, since it's the end of semester I thought I would reflect on some of the things I have learned in ed tech.
The largest amount of learning I got in ed tech was from blogging and, suprisingly, the word processing unit. Blogging was completely new to me and I really enjoyed the challenge of trying to customize our page and post things different ways. In the word processing unit, I was actually surprised on how much I learned. I really thought I knew everything there was to word processing until we got assinged our 7 challenges. I now know how to resize a paper on screen so that it will print out on the same size paper, how to change backgrounds for an entire document, and a bunch of other fancy stuff.
Also, I have learned some new things from the other units too. For instance, during the slideshow unit, I went out of my comfort zone with powerpoint and explored google slides and prezi.
Ed tech has really taught me a lot this semester, and I can't wait to see what we'll be doing in the next.
In addition, since it's the end of semester I thought I would reflect on some of the things I have learned in ed tech.
The largest amount of learning I got in ed tech was from blogging and, suprisingly, the word processing unit. Blogging was completely new to me and I really enjoyed the challenge of trying to customize our page and post things different ways. In the word processing unit, I was actually surprised on how much I learned. I really thought I knew everything there was to word processing until we got assinged our 7 challenges. I now know how to resize a paper on screen so that it will print out on the same size paper, how to change backgrounds for an entire document, and a bunch of other fancy stuff.
Also, I have learned some new things from the other units too. For instance, during the slideshow unit, I went out of my comfort zone with powerpoint and explored google slides and prezi.
Ed tech has really taught me a lot this semester, and I can't wait to see what we'll be doing in the next.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Garage Band Update
Garage Band still continues to be confusing to me! It doesn't make any sense. I am starting to become more familiar with what the features do because I have found several websites that show you how to start working on garage band. However, I still do not know how to actually record, make music, edit, and stuff like that. Garage Band is definetely challenging for me.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Prezi Presentations and Garage Band
We had some pretty awesome Prezi presentations in class today. Some humorous some serious. After that we started working with garage band. I'm excited to learn how to use it, but I am lost! I have no idea how to do anything on it. I tried to make a song and couldn't get the instrument to work. I tried making a podcast and I couldn' t figure out how to record. I'm gonna need a lot of help with this one, but it's also going to be a fun challenge. :)
1/10/13 Learning
I didn't learn to much today. But I got to explore more on Prezi and started creating one of the Cell Phone. Prezi is a lot more complicated than it looks. It should be interesting to see how it turns out as I am making it from scratch.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Ed Tech Project Ideas
After everyone gave their pitches I hear quite a few ideas I liked and thought would be fun to do in ed tech such as youtubing, using garage band, using presentations in different ways, etc. I am especially excited for youtube, since I love to go on it, but haven't ever made videos for it. Next semester should be pretty fun if we can do the ideas pitched :)
Friday, January 4, 2013
Prezi
After presenting my pitch for a class project, Mr.A suggested that I check out Prezi, which is another website to make slideshows. I found this site to be incredibly cool! There are many slideshows and they also have 3D onces which bouce all around. The animations and side tranitions are pretty crazy . There are somethings I still have to learn, but I am excited to continue checking out this awesome site.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Happy New Years!
Happy new years to everyone! I can't believe it's 2013! One of my new years resolutions is to learn about technology to the fullest so that I can use it efficiently. What are your new years resolutions?
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