Alan+Uher


 * Alan Uher**
 * I believe I have met the requirements for a 3 credit assessment. Please let me know if I am deficient in any of the course requirements.**
 * June 21, 2012**

Response Entry for Day 2

I began to get a better handle on the course today. I had the opportunities to work with Audacity, Photo Story3, Ning, and Animoto, as well as Soundzaround through Badger Link. Of those applications, I liked Photostory and Animoto the most. They seemed most adaptable to incorporate still photos and video to tell a digital story. I also joined each of those software applications at my home computer with little or no problem. I was able to join Photo Story and Animoto as an educator and look forward to introducing my students to these sites and the possibilities they offer. I could see my 7th graders creating digital travel brochures for my geography course, digital biographies of famous composers for my music class, and digital book reports for my reading class. I currently have my students make weekly journal entries in a spiral notebook. Perhaps by uploading photos from their mobile devices, they could produce digital journal entries as well.

Alan Uher June 19, 2012

Animoto and Photo Story 3 are really easy to use and create really nice looking projects....perfect for students. Great ideas for using these digital storytelling tools!

Here is a project. I am not sure if I should characterize it as a mini-project or a larger-than-mini project. It is designed to inform viewers about the annual Festival of San Fermin, where people run with the bulls of Pamplona, Spain. It took me four tries to finish and save it. I especially enjoyed inserting the voice-over with the Flamenco soundtrack.I don't see the file on this page, but it does show up as Pamplona Photo Story 3B in the recently uploaded files section. I also had a fun time working with Alantonio Banderas. Here is a Smilebox Mini Project on what my students do for Saint Patrick's Day.

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Visit the pages menu on the left side of this Wiki to view a Ning Mini Project recalling the Blizzard of February 2011 that socked Southeastern Wisconsin. I neglected to upload it correctly to my home page. It exists. It was a very friendly software application.



Here is a Glogster Mini Project I developed to introduce the String Family of Instruments for my 4th Grade Music Class. media type="custom" key="19415828"

Here is a Mini Project I developed using Animoto. It recalls a 7th Grade field trip to Crites Field in Waukesha, WI.

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Here is a genuinely Mini Project. I used Cartoon Yourself to show a former colleague of mine and me at my 25th Anniversary as a Teacher dinner.

What follows is the story board for my Big Project. Again I used Photo Story 3 and incorporated numerous audio tracks, personal photos, CC clip art, voice-over dubbing, and a credits slide. The topic is Waukesha's Water. It is designed to inform about the where water comes from and goes in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I showed the project in class. I let Chris Longe know that its size as a WMV.file exceeded 20 MB and therefore would not upload.



In the event that I need further mini projects, I developed one using Little Bird Tales. The subject matter is a family vacation to Kentucky. media type="custom" key="19486632"

Here is an original story I wrote using StoryJumper. It is about a bee named Buzzy. I kept it very simple. I am not sure how to save it to this page however.

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