Multimedia


 * === Multimedia Projects === ||  ||
 * === Video Segment ===

__ mms://media.k12.sd.us/ak063/Movie_5th_grade_Writing_20110531.wmv __
|| === This video segment is a introduction to a 5th grade writing project about Places to Visit. There are different sound clips, photo editing, and text included in this project. This video is used as an introduction to a writing project. In the writing project, student will have to write 5 page paragraph on a place they would like to visit. I showed examples of things that could be used to write about in the informative paper. === || __ mms://media.k12.sd.us/ak063/Camtasia11_20110601.wmv __ || === This tutorial was created to show my students how to take a spelling test on the website www.spellingcity.com. This is a frequent occurrence in my classroom, as we do these test bi-weekly. To create this tutorial, I used the program Camtasia. Within this, I recorded myself walking through how to get onto the website, complete the test, and print out results. I used frequent hot keys, such as T (transition), Z (zoom), and C (Call Out) move around the program easily. Callouts were used to draw attention to specific items that were being shown. I also used text to reinforce what was being said in the tutorial. === ||
 * === Photo Editing Pictures === || === These photos have been edited using Picasa software. They have been edited by adjusting, cropping, resizing, and contrasting. These photos were taken for a video project. I used them to describe a writing project on places to visit. I am also using these photos for a SD History project with my class, where they will have to research a town or county in South Dakota and put together a PowerPoint presentation on the city/county of their choice. Photo 1 was cropped and used enhancement to make the dark objects "pop". Photo 2 used color enhancements to make the green brighter and then I used a soft focus enhancement. Photo 3 use a sepia look to show an antique style to the picture because of the age of the water tower. Photo 4 was cropped to show an up close view of the school. Also, the blue color was enhanced through using tuning. This made the sky look blue on a rather cloudy day. Photo 5 was taken at an angle, so I used the straighten tool to change the picture. It was also cropped and made black and white. === ||
 * === Digital Audio media type="file" key="Mr Brown Can Moo Onomatopoeia.wav" width="300" height="50" === || === This digital audio clip was created in Audacity. Onomatopoeia is a type of figurative language used in stories. This sound clip introduces onomatopoeia and uses the story __Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?__by Dr. Seuss as an example of different types of onomatopoeia. This will be used in the classroom during my figurative language unit. After listening to the story, the student will be asked to do a variety of activities with Onomatopoeia, such as looking through comic strips to find different examples used in different comics. === ||
 * === Desktop-Recording:Tutorial on taking online Spelling Test ===
 * === Visual Organization 1: ===

[[file:All About Me Projects.pdf]]
|| === In my classroom, my students do projects with a younger class. Through this organizer they can see which project they have a choice of and what each project entails. The middle of the web is the topic, the next layer is the project choices, and the outside layer tells what needs to be included in the projects. This organizer was created in Inspiration to be used for this purpose. === || || === Cause and Effect is a difficult concept for elementary kids to understand. I created two cause and effect chart based on the book__Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day__. I read this story to them first and then show the visual organizer so they can see that one cause can have many effects, or many causes can have the same effect. This organizer was created in Inspiration. I created two of them because even though there is the same information in both, different students understand different charts easier. === ||
 * === Visual Organization 2: ===