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My favorite project was the my life project because I got to use pictures and use whatever song I wanted. My least favorite project was the music genre project, I didn't like this project because it took a long time to line up the slides with the appropriate music. I don't think that you should have taught us anything more. I think that it was a good class.

my life project

1. Create a new blog posting and call it: My Life - Final Project

2. Post your My Life Project and answer the following questions:

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A) Identify the different music in your project. Alternative rock
B) Tell us what songs you used and...  Audience of one by Rise Against
C) Why you chose the different pieces. because the song seems to fit the project.

4.Describe how you went about finding your information, pictures, and songs:
A) What kinds of search terms/phrases did you use? (Give some examples.) I typed in president in 1995 and things like that
B) What search engine(s) do you use most often? I use google most ofter
C) Did you find any unreliable websites or sources? yes I find reliable sources.

5. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...] keynote, imovie, zamzar, google, itunes

6. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project? I am good at making the imovie, Making the Imovie went well for me.

7. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you? I struggle lining up the movie

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A) Did you decide to use still slides? yess
B) Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?] because they are easy to make
C) Did you use a consistent theme throughout your movie? yes
D) Why or why not? because it looks more professional

9. Describe how you used video in your project. I used it to portray my interests

10. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted? For other classes and in business situations.

11. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information - citing is not enough...tell me how you transformed what you've taken into something new, etc., How did you transform the music, information, images, etc.? I used zamzar and cited my sources and used it for educational purposes

12. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not? no because it takes alot of time, maybe I needed a really good grade.

music genome project

1. A) Identify your chosen musical genre & B) say why you chose it. My genre was hardcore, I chose this because it is interesting to me and I listen to it quite a bit.
2. Describe how you went about finding your songs and information.  I used youtube finding my songs and for my information, I googled what I needed and used the websites that I found.
3. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...] I used powerpoint, garageband, imovie, zamzar, google, and youtube.
4. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project? I am good at collecting information, making my powerpoint was about all that went well.
   
5. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you? The transformation between taking it from powerpoint and garageband and making it an Imovie.
   
6. Did you decide to use still slides? Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information? Yes I used still slides, because they are the easiest to convey the information.
7. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?  I could use this for just about any class, or in a job situation.
8. How did your project use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? [...not just that you cited the information, etc., but how did you transform the music, information, images, etc.] I used zamzar to convert my videos, and for my pictures and information I sighted my sources.
9. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not? No I did not like this project, it was annoying trying to line up the stills with the music so I would not want to do another one like this.

Choir vid

 

1. Post your movie to your blog. Number and answer the following questions:
2. Identify your team's topic. Choir
3. Describe your role on the team. I was part of the filming team
4. What did you learn from being a part of this team? That we work well together.
5. What went well for you as a team?  We all had different parts and worked efficiently to finish the project
6. What did not go well for you as a team? nothing
7. Describe the process from storyboarding through the movie creation. Did ideas/concepts/focus change from one kind of technology to the other? If so, how?Well we had to change the powerpoint slides to form the effects, and we added video clips and other things, none of the ideas change.
8. What new tools and techniques did you learn by doing this project? we used imovie and the techniques adding effects for imovie slides
9. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted? no I don't think so because most classes don't deal with choir.
10. How did you use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976? We used it for educational purposes and had a works cited page.
    
11. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?probably not because it is a lot of work to do such a small project.

Vocal podcast

1.  What tools and techniques did you use to create your podcast? We used garage band to create this podcast.

2.  How could you use a project like this in other classes? You could use a project like this to present information to a class on a specific topic.

3.  In the “real world”, how could podcast projects be used (In what careers/businesses, etc.)? Careers, you could send information to peers in the form of podcasts so they can here and replay the information

4.  What part of the assignment was easy for you?   What was difficult? The editing was easy. The part that was hard was the recording.

5.  What part of the directions would you like to clarify? They were pretty well put. I understood it well.

I movie story board

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2. State the TOPIC your team chose and TELL WHY you, as a group, decided to explore it. [3 pts] My team and I chose  choir. We chose this because it was not taken and another group had taken hockey.

3. What different images did you include in your storyboard & why did you chose them. [3 pts.] We used the Peoria Notre Dame, Because we did it on the Notre Dame choir. We also have a picture of a choir, because that is our topic, we have a picture that says new choir members welcome, because they welcome new choir members, We have a picture of a calender because it talks about time commitment, we have a picture of the auditorium because the choir sometimes practices there, we have a picture of a church because they play at masses, we have a picture of a sign up form because that shows how they can join, there is a picture that says no money because it doesn't cost any thing, and there is a picture of a table of food because sometimes they have food.

4. What tools of collaboration helped you succeed as a team?  [2 pts.] We used teamwork, and we used open minds to others ideas to succeed.

5. Describe HOW storyboarding helped you develop the idea for your movie.  [10 pts.] It helps give you a base for what you are going to do when doing the movie. Without story board, there would be no base for the movie and it would be thrown together. With a story board it will seem cleaner and there was hard work put into it.

Mail merge project

1. List the name of your business and its charity. The name of the Business is Apple, the charity is victims of California wild fires.
2. What skills did you use/learn in this project? I learned how to use the mail merge manager tool and how to create a formal business letter.
3. What was the easiest part of this project? What was the most difficult part of this project? The easiest part of this project was finally merging the letters. The hardest part was creating the first letter and getting it all right so that I could merge it.
4. Describe how you might use these skills and apply them to a real-world situation other than writing a charity letter. You might use these skills if you worked for a school and had to make letters for the students you could use mail merge to do that.

5. Did you learn something new during this project that you did not know before?  If so, what? [Your response to this question can be related to the information, skills, or process of the project.] I really learned how to use the mail merge. I didn't even know that it existed before this project.