End of the Year Questions Blog Post

    I really feel that I learned a lot from this class. My favorite project was the MyLife Project. I thought it was really fun. My least favorite project was the PND Culture Project because my group didn't help me and it wasn't very interesting. I really cant think of anything else that I would have liked to learn. Overall it was a very fun learning experience.

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

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

3.
A) Identify the different music in your project.
B) Tell us what songs you used and...
C) Why you chose the different pieces.

A) B) and C)   Live Like Were Dying by Chris Allen, Time of Your life by Greenday, Who are You by The Who, Magic by B.O.B, Forever Young by Alphaville, and Umbrella by Taylor Swift. I chose the specific pieces because they fit in good with the theme of my life and I really enjoyed the parts I used.

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 used  phrases like ,"What was the price of milk, ect. in 1995?"
B) What search engine(s) do you use most often? I used google.
C) Did you find any unreliable websites or sources? Yes a website called http://www.1990sflashback.com/1995/Economy.asp.

5. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...] Web tools like google and Mac tools like  iMovie and GarageBand.

6. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project?
I like putting the music with the pictures and choosing the pictures and putting the slides together.

7. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you?
I struggled with finding all the information for the data part we had to have.

8.
A) Did you decide to use still slides? 
Yes, but I tried to make them move.
B) Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?] 
It was the best way to show my information.
C) Did you use a consistent theme throughout your movie? 
Yes I used songs that were that seemed like me and pertained to the project of life.
D) Why or why not? 
 It worked best and made it flow.

9. Describe how you used video in your project.
The video was of my siblings so I put it before my siblings slides.
10. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted?
For any class or project...I learned a lot!

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.?
 First I cited everything and then I cut the music so it was not exactly like the original.

12. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?
Yes it was very fun and it was about me so I liked it a lot!

I: Post your Music Genome Project to your blog (not a link), reflect on your project, and answer the following questions in complete sentences:

 

1. A) Identify your chosen musical genre & B) say why you chose it.- I chose country because I find it very relaxing music.
2. Describe how you went about finding your songs and information. - I looked in my itunes library and found a bunch of country songs and I looked on youtube.
3. What different kinds of technology did you use to compile your project? [Web tools, Mac tools, etc...] -I used imovie, keynote, and garage band
4. What are you good at...what went well for you in this project?- Picking the songs went well for me...I enjoyed this project.
5. With what did you struggle on this project...what was difficult for you?
   
6. Did you decide to use still slides? Why or why not?  [If not, how did you convey your information?- Yes i did.  I wrote my information on keynote and duplicated the slides.
7. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted? - I could use this for any class; biology, music, or lit. 
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 easybib and noodletools to convert the urls and sources into sources.
9. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not?- I thought it was too long so no...i did however enjoy this project to the end.

imovie

1. Post your movie to your blog. Number and answer the following questions:
2. Identify your team's topic.- Literature.
3. Describe your role on the team.- I basically did everything, I put the video slides together, and got all the movies.
4. What did you learn from being a part of this team?- That I have to take charge and do basically everything
5. What went well for you as a team?- It was nice that Roy interviewed me for the project and I didn't have to do that 
6. What did not go well for you as a team?- They didn't really contribute to the project except for Roy doing one interview.
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?- We took the slides from the keynote presentation, I put the interview in, and the youtube video in and revised a lot of stuff and thats how I made it.
8. What new tools and techniques did you learn by doing this project? - I learned to how to use imovie and how to put a youtube video in.
9. For what other classes, situations, uses could this type of project be adapted? - I could use this for almost every class so its a very useful tool.
10. How did you use the transformative property of borrowed images, music, and information to comply with the Copyright Law of 1976?- We cited everything and gave it credit.
11. Would you do another project like this on your own? Why? Why not - I thought it was a good learning project but it took a little more time than I'd want to spend on something.

Podcast Blog

1.  What tools and techniques did you use to create your podcast?
I used GarageBand and iphoto to create my podcast.
2.  How could you use a project like this in other classes?
To do a simple verbal project or a big project reviewing something is something I could use it for in other clases.  
3.  In the “real world”, how could podcast projects be used (In what careers/businesses, etc.)?
They could be used for a critic, a journalist, a big business man/women to present ideas in the real world. 
4.  What part of the assignment was easy for you?   What was difficult?
Writing about the movie was easy for me.
5.  What part of the directions would you like to clarify?
I'd like to clarify that you needed 5 jingles or sound effects and it works best to import pictures on iphoto.

story board project

2. State the TOPIC your team chose and TELL WHY you, as a group, decided to explore it. [3 pts] Literature Class  Veronica, Roy and I chose literature class. We chose this because we figure it's a good class to have knowledge about for future freshman. They need to know that if they're an average student they should just go into regular literature but if they're above average they can go into honors literature and many other things about literature class. It was interesting to learn how to use keynote to compose the project too. Overall it was a very helpful to look into the literature class more and for future PND students. 3. What different images did you include in your storyboard & why did you chose them. [3 pts.] We used pictures of books and other forms of literature because it tied in well to our literature project. 4. What tools of collaboration helped you succeed as a team?  [2 pts.] We all worked together in keynote to get information and special effects. 5. Describe HOW storyboarding helped you develop the idea for your movie.  [10 pts.] It gave me a templeate and ideas to make a great movie.

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