Youtubing in Ed tech!

So I think, so far, I have posted on absolutely everything I know about slideshows. However, Something I am excited to do in ed tech is youtube videos! I've always wanted to make youtube videos but don't know how to! Really excited to do this! :)

Compare and Contrast Word and Pages App

For my second slideshow, which I made on Google Slides, I compared and contrasted Microsoft Word and the Pages App. Over all my presentation told the facts about both of the products, and I tried not to make it biased so that the audience viewing it could decide. Overall, however, Microsoft Word has more options than the pages app and has better photo editing tools than pages has. On the other hand, Pages is an app and and it has a variety of options and does almost everything that Microsoft word does in different ways.
Microsoft Word or Pages? You decide.

Slideshow Learning

I've done quite a few slideshows before, but I have learned now how to organize my slideshows in a better way, have effective transitions, and how to not over or under write on a presentation. In addition, I have for the first time used google slides which I have found similar to word, but it is easier to share with other people and you can comment on each others slides.

What should we learn about in Ed Tech?

There are so many things we could do with technology! Here are somethings I think would be fun to do!

- Youtube Channel
- Make a textbook on Ipad
- Screen Videos
- Selling things online
- Make a class website ( Divide a page of the site to each person to work on and then put it together into a site!)
- Photo shop stuff
- Music Videos

Google Slides

Last class, we started working on google slides to make presentations on comparing different word processors. I have learned that google slides is quite similar to powerpoint and some more. It has different templates than powerpoint and some cool transitions, however, I feel like google slides lacks variety. It has only 5 transitions, though different than Powerpoint's, and there are only a few slide layouts, where as Powerpoint has many. In my opinion, Google slides is a good alternative but if you want to maximum amount of options, Powerpoint is the way to go.

Learning Reflection

I have learned so much in Ed Tech so far. I really thought that I knew that everything that there was to word processing, but I clearly didn't! Now that we have done word processing it has helped me in doing our slideshows. For example: Keeping my slideshow organized, and using tables to hold pictures and information. Some things that I will have to work on is presenting. Having more eye contact and maybe having the slideshow timed, so I don't have to bend down for every animation. Since I am taking speech and debate, it should help me. Also, maybe I could try making it on my iPad? That might let me hold my ipad in my hand while I am presenting, rather than bending down at a computer.

PDF Splicer

I was having trouble with random page breaks forming in my documents, and if I deleted them the formatting of my document would get messed up. I also had trouble making my magazine one document, as I made a new document for every page. To make the documents into one, I found PDF Splicer. PDF Splicer is an app for iPad that allows you to delete seperate pages, move, and rearrange documents that have been saved as a PDF. This allowed me to make my seperate documents into 1 and it allowed me to take out the unwanted page breaks in my planner. The only downfall is that they insert a 1 page ad at the beginning of your document. However, if you are printing it shouldn't be a problem, and if you don't want the ads at all, you can pay a fairly low price to get them off.

Update on Ed Tech Learning

So I haven't posted in a while, since we have had so many breaks in school, but here are things I have learned since the last time I posted.

November 5-8: I worked on my planner, which is part of the word processing challenge artifacts. I found this to be incredibly tedious and time consuming. Though it wasn't very hard, I did a weekly planner for the entire year (November - November). In the process I had to copy and paste my planner on 52 seperate pages, and change the dates to go in order. I also had to change the week heading. This took me about 4 hours total. Next time, I think I will go with a monthly planner. :)

November 9-14: I worked on my report on the pages app of my iPad! I found the report fun to do by adding many pictures, charts and small explanations throughout. Pages has many cool picture formatting options which I enjoyed playing with.

In class, we all made forms so we can evaluate each others blogs. Here I found that you cannot make a hyperlink in forms, and that its difficult to organize an evaluation for so many artifacts. However, there are at least two ways :)

At home I have been working on finishing evaluations.

Making a Magazine with Pages!

I have learned two things since last class.... Don't leave half of you magazine to be done the night before class, and that making a magazine on the Pages app for iPad is super cool. I learned a bunch of new pages that I never even knew about. The most I had ever used the app for was typing an essay. Now I have learned how to make pictures transparent and set backgrounds on documents. I also learned how to set page numbers and how to insert textboxes that I can move around as I need. I don't think my magazine could look as cool as it does without the Pages app. :)

Singularity Project!

So, I taught my sister how to start a blog! Since she didn't know anything about blogs to start with it was really easy to double her knowledge. I asked her to put a post on her blog on what she has learned. She has a picture and two posts and a gadget up. I also helped her with privacy settings. Here is a link to her cat blog. www.calleyscatblog.blogspot.com

Ed tech learning!

Wow, word processing has really been a challenge, the biggest challenge I have completed was surprisingly the buisness card. For homework, I completed my pamphlet. This was easy yet I did run into a few difficulties which I had to find out how to solve. Also, I started my magazine which I decided to attempt to do on my iPad on the Pages word processing app. This at first went really well, but I have run into some problems which I cannot figure out. Hopefully something will work! :)

Word processing learning!

At the beginning of the year, I thought that I knew everything there is to know about Microsoft word. Boy was I wrong. I found it incredibly challenging make a business card and invitation from scratch. One thing I never knew was even possible was to resize the page, which I still haven't quite figured out to work with my business card. However I did manage to make my buisness card using a picture, editing it so that it so that it didn't even look like it self anymore, and inserting text box and shapes. This word processing section of Ed tech sure is going to challenge me more than I originally thought.

New Tech Learning

Something new I have learned in tech is how to find templates for google spreadsheets. There are a variety of templates that range from budgets to schedules and a lot more. You can do pretty much anything with the if you know how. Knowing how is the step I am in right now. I know what I want to do and I tried to find a way to do it but I have pretty much no experiene with spreadsheets. Hoping that I will be able to figure it out in class.

How to Duplicate a Spread Sheet

The newest thing I have learned on spread sheets is that if you want to duplicate someone's spreadsheet. All you have to do is hit File at the top of google docs, click "Make a Copy" and re title it as your own spreadsheet. Then you can move it into the HS logs folder! :)

What I learned in Ed tech on 10/11

Something new that I have learned in Ed Tech last class was how to move a chart from one spread sheet to another. This was a bit difficult, because I wanted to move all of the data so that I could edit right on the other spread sheet. Instead I had to save my chart as an image and move it to the other spread sheet.