Today I found EVERYTHING that we learned can be used in my second grade classroom. I was very encouraged by this technology. My "aha" moment was the whole day, because I am amazed that I was able to do all of the assignments correctly.

I learned a lot today. I made a video with pictures, music, and me talking. I want to make an open house video and record my students voices as they read to increase fluency. "AHA" I actually did it- ME!

I hope to use photostory; if not with my students individually than as a group to produce one project. I enjoyed using this program. I may invest in a better mike. Aha moment was during audacity.

On this second day of class I learned the procedures for digital storytelling and videos. The teacher is so pleasant in directing our activities. It was so exciting to realize that I was able with some help to complete these activities. Thank you.

How to use all of this great stuff?!? I hope to create my own photo story as an example to students and then have them complete a project in which they make their own photo story to summarize what they have learned about a topic. Maybe I could even add audio to my web site or make a video of my students learning in my classroom!

Making movies was FUN. I can imagine my students using this tool to enhance their autobiography projects. The programs we used today were relatively easy to understand. The "aha" moment for me was when I watched my movie and saw all of today's work in one finished product.

Today was packed with new information. I was pleased to learn more about Photostory. It seems to be very user-friendly and not as daunting as I thought.
I enjoyed finding music on Free Play. I can definitely use these programs to make end of year/open house presentations for parents.
I could use photostory or moviemaker for presenting the children's stories.

Yesterday was outstanding. I learned many new skills and was floored by all the free sources available. The file converter will be very useful.

The material presented today was amazing. I love the photostory and have already begun to think of projects to do with my class. My aha moment was being able to transfer files! A great class today with a great deal of information that can be shared with my students. I can't wait to use photostory for my own personal use as well.

The most effective program that I enjoyed using was moviemaker. I had trouble with the mouse and a very slow computer. I believe that I will be able to share the moviemaker program with my students and encorporate them into my lessons. I know the students will have a blast with the effects!

Today I learned so much about how I can put things together to create most anything I want in regard to movies. I gained a lot of confidence working with the various tools for movie making and digital storytelling. It will be great to try making stories and movies with the children.

I loved what we did today! I am planning on using audacity in my listening center rather that the old tape and story. I would also like to use photostory to allow the students wo make a photo journal of sorts. The movie maker seems like a wonderful way for me to present some new informaiton the the kids in a fun and interesting way! I think the the most important thing I learned is that I really don't need to fear technology! I can't wait to use it in every subject!

I had so much fun today. I can see making a movie of my Kindergarten class this year as an achievable goal now!

I love that we were able to work with images, video, and auto. The different programs gave me serveral options. By goal will be to master one before I get into another. I would love to hear from others to see how they plan to use each of the programs especially audacity. My Aha was to know that I can use both video and still images in the same project.

Today was even better than yesterday! I enjoyed learning Photo Story and think that my students and I could use this tool in Church History and math. Audacity was great! It was fun to select music and do the narration. Making the video was also interesting but I would like to learn how to make the video segment that was provided for us today on the CD. I've never used a video camera. I would like to make mini lessons for students who are absent or just need the repetition. It makes me want to go home and create!

Tilt! Tilt! Tilt! I have used movie maker before without any instruction. This was much more satisfying and I will definately use these tools with my students to create paperless writing projects.

I was so tired after yesterday and thought I could not possible add anymore information in to my brain. But AHA! Today was great! I learned how to make a movie and do a digital story with pictures from my camera! I am going to try to have a digital story with images of my students fro my open house this year.

I would like to use photostory for my Back to School Night presentation for the parents of my class.

I enjoyed using the audio and video. I didn't really like the music I created in Photostory, but I did like the music on Freeplay. My "aha" moment" was that I really need to be animated and project my voice. I was surprised at how meek I sounded when I recorded my voice.

I think I would like to make book reports with Photostory or MovieMaker. I liked MovieMaker better than Photostory, though. I may use audacity to record and play writing prompts. I would like to listed to some of the Grammar Girl podcasts, but I'm not sure I'd play them for the class.

Describe your experience today with digital audio, video or images (Photostory). How would you use these digital assests?

I learned today about Audacity, Photo Story, and Movie Maker. I personally liked Photo Story and Movie Maker the most because it is easy to use and I think students will enjoy learning how to make movies and using storytelling from things that we do in the classroom.

WOW, that's ALOT of information. I LOVED learning how to use the audio, video and digital programs. I am still trying to wrap my brain around how to use it all in the classroom!
My AHA moment... photostory! It really is as easy and fabulous as everyone told me. I can see MANY, MANY uses for photostory in the classroom.

I don't believe I have ever worked so hard in my life, but it was worth it! Our project turned out very well and we had fun with it! My "aha" moment was when our project reappeared after our computer had crashed! That was a close one! I not only learned about technology in this class, but I learned what stress students go through while working on a project.

The experience of completing this assignment was difficult but I was lucky enough to be working with the group from school who were very efficient and knew just how to do this work. I was very impressed with the work done by so many of the groups. I hope to be able to use many of these ideas in my classroom this year.

The group project was a great idea. It allowed our group to come up with a presentation that we can take back to school. As far as challenges, our group had a hard time with the audio piece, but eventually figured it out. If we had more time we could have made the voice over and pictures match. Overall, the project today showed everyone the amount of time needed if we were to do this in our classroom.

Today was a little stressful for me. I think the women I work with - including myself - all took the class very seriously. Our movie was pretty good for such a short time limit. I'm happy we did a good job, but felt lots of pressure. I LOVE making movies and will certainly use the technology I worked on in this class. My students will love this too!

The project was exciting. There were a lot of obsticles to overcome. The headphones did not work on the Dell monitor so we had trouble recording and hearing sound. Remembering to save to video; and not 'my video' was a challenge.

Wow! I really stretched myself to complete the project. I had a great experience working with my group. We worked well together fine tuning the skills that we have learned this week. This is something I can use with my students and hope to give it a try when school starts. I learned that although I have not mastered it all, I am at a good place to "play around with it" continue to learn more. It is great that two other teachers from my school came so we can continue to help each other.

What was your group experience like? What were some of the technological obstacles to overcome? If you had more time and the perfect conditions, what would you do different? What was an "aha" moment today

Our group worked very well together. We divided the work so no individual was stressed more than another.
Had there been more time, we would have converted to Movie Maker and added music.
My "aha" moment came when I was able to do something on Storybook without asking a group member.

Our group experience was great, though I think we probably chose to do it differently than maybe was expected. We worked together almost the entire time on the same computer. So we didn't have individual roles so much. We did realize that Photo Story created video clips when imported into Moviemaker, rather than a continuous stream of video. So we had to pull the pieces together into the storyboard. Strange! If we had more time, we definitely would have imported what we did into Moviemaker to add some effects, including music for the couple of slides that did not have audio. Would have loved to have used Audacity, but the narration feature in Photo Story really worked so well.

Thanks, Karen!!!!!!! We WILL use this knowledge!

The experience of today was at times overwhelming and other times so much fun! We worked well together and learned from one another. We learned some dos and don'ts of movie making. When we wrote on slides and then later edited postions, the wording switched slides. We learned teh program was by time not slide. The aha moment was we succeeded with our gruop project and survived this week!

I had a blast with my gorup. We were able to work well together, but we did everything together, next time we need to split up and work on our parts alone. The only problem we really had with technology was how our files transfered form photostory to moviemaker. I would have liked to add some music and more graphics. My "aha" was how easy it was to complete this project. Using all of the tools we played with this week was fun and rewarding! Thanks!

Today was frustrating. Although our final project was quite good, working in a group under severe time restraints is a daunting task. Five people may have been too many for a project of this type. In retrospect, I will probably appreciate today, but right now I don't feel as positive and upbeat as I did the last two days.

I found it rather frustrating to spend so much time on something and then have it not work. I guess that is part of the learning cycle. Try, Try, again. I found all the information very useful and hope that I can make it work on my own. Thank you for all the help!!

Today was a challenging day putting together our project. We were pretty ambitious in what we wanted to achieve and it was hard to do in the time available. We worked really well as a team though and we managed to get a finished project that used most of the programs we had been using in class. It was a lot of fun! Thank you.

Group experience was great. It was great to be able to use each other to fill in the "blanks". I don't think we really had technological obstacles. If we had more time I would just like to "play" more, which I will do at home. That's how I learn new programs best! My AHA? Putting it all together!

Time was an issue. I wish we knew the day before we had to do the project what the topic was going to be. that way we could have used the drive time to think about it and plan. We could have gatherd pictures and stuff to add to the movie. Just an idea. As far as working with a group, with three member it was nice. Any more would have been pushing it.

This would be very enjoyable if we had more time to just work out all the kinks however we did find out quickly what they were. I have a dozen things to try at home and learned a lot from my group. We all had different strenghts and helped each other as we would hope to teach our students to do. I still want to know how to convert video from my camera to movie maker so I can take some stills from my video. I will be working on it!!!

The group experience went very well. I liked the way the project turned out, but I don't like being photographed. It was difficult to be patient with everyone and to compromise on the topic, but it still turned out well. We had some technological difficulties with setting up the google docs and with converting files, but we were able to work them out. Also, it would have been nice to have more access to audio so we could all hear the presentations. If we had more time we could have taken video with better lighting and found a realistic looking DCCP certificate. I had an "aha" moment when the movie was done and people were laughing and enjoying it.

The group experience was great. Everyone had a task and completed it through trail and error...we worked well together. I think we made the project more difficut than it needed to be. We did have trouble with uploading audio and timing within the program. I am sure with more time devoted to the project.... all the bugs could have been worked out. Loved the class!