Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is a basic editing program that allows you to make your own videos or edit videos already made. Windows Movie Maker contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, and an audio track that you can incorporate into your movie. Windows Movie Maker also allows you to edit your music such as fading in or fading out. Another feature of Windows Movie Maker is that you can clip out sections of your movie, if you feel that parts of your movie are inappropriate or if you just feel the movie would look better without certain sections.

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Pros of Windows Movie Maker: It’s very easy and basic to learn compared to other software editing programs, it allows you to create your own movie starting from the title screen all the way to finishing credits, and it also allows you to incorporate your music of choice along with special effects

Cons of Windows Movie Maker: Sometimes windows movie maker crashes as you’re making a movie which makes you start from the beginning, it can’t save huge movies you edited, and the video quality is basic, and often when you’re creating even a basic video, windows movie maker freezes a lot.

Windows Movie Maker is a good program to start with for making short basic films

Some suggestions I have based for educational purposes include the history and science classes. For the history classes, for example, if you’re showing a war movie and some parts are to violent for students to watch, with windows movie maker you can clip out sections of the movie that you don’t want, and with special transitions already included in movie maker, it will look like those deleted scenes never existed. For the science classes, especially biology, if you want to show a quick movie on the anatomy of the human body, then with windows movie maker you can add effects, pause the movie when you want, add transition slides to emphasize what you want to say and you can emphasize, for example, important sections of the human body through special effects already installed in windows movie maker.

Windows movie maker is very simple to use, but if you’re ever having trouble then this tutorial will help you learn the program in less than 10 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZXK68NS7gU

This link is from you tube and it’s a step-by-step tutorial that is easy to understand and learn.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/default.mspx This link is directly from the windows movie maker website and it’s an inquiry and answering page that answers any questions you may have. This website also has step-by-step tutorials for any question you may have on windows movie maker.

Blog Number 7- I Thought I Posted This

For this contest I don’t have any ideas on which original song we can make a parody that demonstrates or envisions the use of technology in the classroom, but I do have ideas on how we can make the video. One aspect of the video can be how we made surveys on the benefits of using netbooks in classes to help students create and learn more effectively. This is a good idea because we can possibly create lyrics for this.  Another aspect of the video can be how our classroom has a smart board, and how students are learning how to use the smart board to teach the other classes in our school. We can talk about how the smart board could be used for personal use to enhance one’s school presentations. We can also break up into groups and get teachers feedback on the video, or possible suggestions that will enhance the video.

Blog Number 6- Future Shop Contest

I think that this contest will work against us, because when reading the application it seems like this contest was created to help “schools-in-need” which can’t afford computers of their own, instead of asking to make a video of how our school would use a new renovated computer lab. I think that this contest is the one we should consider last for applying. One idea however, I think, that would assist the IDC class in completing this application is by showing the judges how our school is currently using new technology, and how we can improve and motivate others by being more involved in learning, if we had a bigger fund for proving the students with more technology to use at their disposal. We should also talk about how we have high academic standards, so the technology would be a privilege and an opportunity to increase our academic standards

Blog Number 5- Staples Contest

I’m not too sure on what you mean by brainstorming ideas, but if you are asking how the essay should be written and what criteria we should put on it, then I think that instead of every student writing the same essay on the same topic, the students should break up into groups and write an essay together consisting on how our school is environmentally responsible. We can talk about how one of our own teachers hosts the switch club which provided us with solar panels on top of our school, along with how we have courses at Mackenzie teaching the students about the damages and pressures humans have put on the earth, and how to change them, along with writing about our gardening club. I also think that by entering in this contest we will have the opportunity to upgrade our computer lab, although on aspect of the contest is to write about how we influenced the community, and I personally don’t see how we influenced our community around us. We will however I think be successful with environmental attributes and school and student leadership portion of the essay. Out of the three contests I think the Staples one is the more successful one.

Blog Number 4- I know Im late

My first choice in project selection is: In Depth Software Development
My second choice in project selection is: Netbook Cart Team
My third choice in project selection is: Web 2.0 Tools

I ranked the projects the way I did because I personally like Depth Software Development. I like working with software and experiment with different programs and teaching myself those programs.

I ranked Netbook cart team second because I like working with groups of people and like working with hardware and setting up programs but I just don’t enjoy it as much as depth software development

I ranked Web 2.0 Tools third because when reading the description it was the topic that least got me interested on working in this particular task.

Blog Number 3

I think that “doing old things in new ways” is more suited for schools at this time because this way you can integrate technology into he class room and work environment. Technology is rapidly being innovated each day and if schools don’t keep up with future and current trends in technology then the school system will start to fall behind. Students need technology incorporated in to their school lives. And teachers should include technology in school lessons which include: videos that students can watch to understand concepts that are taught in the class. Students can also email their teachers for further help or submitting work online. Teachers would contribute more to the education of their students if they used online activities to educate the students.

Blog Number 2

Although the course is starting off slow, I really am enjoying working on group projects along with meeting new people i haven`t met before. I also really like how different groups were established to work on different tasks that are all working towards integrating netbooks into the school. I really do hope we have more projects like these ones; however I would enjoy working directly with technology (ex. the netbooks) instead of going around class to class surveying groups, even though I do enjoy that aswell. At this time I do not have any suggestions on how the course could be improved.