Edu presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiKH2nMtd4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
here you can view my presentation on E palling

Good/ Bad Example of Portfolios

http://www.immaculateheartacademy.org/.../ (bad)
I picked this portfolio as the bad example due to her set up being somewhat confusing and unorganized.  If I was to look at this it was all over the place and not really appealing to me.  This person is interested in art and has some example of her work.  Although the pictures are nice, the info on them is quite boring.



http://publish.bsu.edu/mgdoublestei/frameset.html (good)
In this portfolio this man is a music teacher.  I like how everything is simple and direct.  He has a picture of himself and gives his explanation of how he became interested in music.  He has places his resume and some a flyer of a concert that he put together ( didnt like how he used single letters, should have written out the word). He also included an article that was written by him that ties music into sports.

Copyright for teachers

Some of the things that were considered a violation of copyright had me surprised.  One wouldn't think that just by copying something for usage in an educational sense is a violation.  I found out that something that is copyrighted comes from the point of fixation.  I was under the impression that it had to have the little copyright symbol ( I know I'm not the only one who thought this)!!!  The idea that I could do something and have it copyrighted is a pretty cool idea.  From classroom discussions I learned all about the "poor mans copyright which is a resourceful way to have your items copyrighted if you don't have the means to do it the proper way.
Within school there are always violations of the copyright law. You can find a teacher that copies worksheets from a book and hands them out to the class and use them for a discussion piece or for homework.  Also video are shown within the classroom numerous times and probaly without the knowledge that they are doing something wrong.  Hey I found that out for myself ( something else I didn't know).
I think that the children show know about the copyright laws so they won't violate it somewhere down the line.  Who knows what path they want to lead in the course of their education and there shouldn't be anything that can negate any of the hard work they have done.

Video in the class

I think video in the classroom is a great tool to have within the classroom.  It will help those students that have to have a visual when learning material.  A good use for video can be in History.  When talking about different war or events that occur you can find that particular war and show it to the class and point out certain objectives within the video.  Also students can use video to help them with fears and participate in speeches.  If a student has stage fright, they might be able to record there speech and present it to the class.. There are numerous ways that videos can be useful in the classroom to just name a few.

PSA Project

The idea of the video was cool at first and when we were going through how to do things as a class it was quite interesting.  All this technology stuff is very new to me.  I was like "COOOL!!!"  Trying to figure up an idea to do with all the requirements was a bit challenging at first. 
  Once me and my partner came up with an idea the next thing we had to figure out was where were we going to tape our video and what scences were going in order.  The actual taping was the easiest part of the project.  We had some issues when it came to editing our video.  Our computer froze on us a few times which was becoming very frustrating.  Thye sad thing about it was that we didnt save it so we had to redo some parts of it.  Lesson learned: SAVE YOUR WORK!!!  Figuring out the correct sounds to go with out video was a bit tideous and working on how to cue the music up correctly.  Once we got that underway everything else was smooth sailing....sorta!!!