Monday, January 26, 2009

YouTube in the Classroom

I love YouTube. Love might actually be an understatement... If I could, I would adopt YouTube, name it Ralphie and have it live in my sister's old bedroom. I think it is a wonderful tool to waste time. Using it in the classroom, however, can be tricky. 

As a future teacher, I feel that I should familiarize myself with all the media possibilities that I can use, so that I can try to come up with ways to integrate them into my class. I think having students (with parental consent for those under 18, of course) record themselves for projects could be interesting, however I do not feel that they would learn much about how to upload videos, since most sites simply ask you to "click a button" to upload.

If I want to teach my students about video editing, recording and whatnot, I would have to ask a media teacher, or someone qualified to teach, seeing as how I can't really do all that fancy video stuff. 

When I was in high school, I had to create a video documentary, edit it and show it to the class. Sadly, the teacher did not offer any tools to help us edit our videos. We ended up just recording everything in sequence to minimize any editing necessary.

All in all I adore YouTue and everyone should check out my videos!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Photo Album assignment

Well, here's a small sampling of some photos I took when I visited my friend Lainie in BC. I miss her so much...




BubbleShare: Share photos - Play some Online Games.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Disc One, it's where we begun

It's all our greatest hits... Oh wait, I guess this blog can't be me ripping off BNL lyrics, can it? Okay, so here we go: this is starting as a school project (boo school!) but I'm hoping to turn it into a regular thing. 

So here's a little bit about That Randomness That Is Me: 

I'm a girl and I like girly things, like pink (cause you haven't noticed at all with my choice of blog colours, have you haha). I'm Canadian, so expect to see the Canadian spelling of words (like in colour back there). Humm what else? I love, love, LOVE music (favourite band is the Barenaked Ladies, aKa BNL), movies (ask me anything about Moulin Rouge), traveling (leaving on my third cruise in less than 3 weeks), photography (as you shall all see soon), cooking (sugar pie anyone?), and many other things. 

I think that's all for now... Catch you guys later!

Ciaos,
Michele