Feb 8 Photostory and Jing

Today in class we learned about how to create a vidcast. Doc Waters showed us cool tools called Jing and Photostory. Jing is a cool tool that can share a snapshot of a document, Collaborate on a design project, Narrate photos, post info on twitter or facebook, teach a friend or family how to use email or other technology tools, basically a Print Screen on steroids! It's really cool and Free :)


Photostory is a windows program that allows you to create vidcasts. You can import pictures, add cool effects to the picture like charcoal, water color, etc, you can import music or voice recordings and create a video. Really cool and simple to do. 


I can use these in my classes right now for my assignments and projects. I can also use this at work or for my person life. When I become a teacher I can use this for my lesson plans to help teach the students on the curriculum.  
Here is the link to the homework assignment: https://sites.google.com/site/mrsitrisclass/resources

Feb. 1 Podcasts

Today in class we learned about how to create a Podcast. I had never heard of a podcast before so it was cool yo learn how to create one, record it on my phone, and put it on my website. That was also our homework was to do that. Maddie and I worked together and did our podcast on washing your hands to prevent germs.

This technology is important because I can use this for creating lesson plans and doing presentations in my classes while I'm in the program. I can also brag to my husband that I know how to do something with technology that he doesn't.

This will really help my students in the future for homework and in lesson plans. Especially when there is a sub and if I want to make sure they understand something fully, I can have the sub play it for the children. Also, I can put it on the websites for the parents to listen to ass well.