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!