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.

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.

    

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.

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.

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 :)

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.

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?

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.