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.