Last week’s class was really interesting. I would like to take time to talk about a few of the cool things that I was introduced to while in class. The first thing that I want to say is, I have always been a person that has worked with Microsoft computers and have all of my knowledge and experience working with them. So needless to say coming into a class that is working with Apple computers made me a bit worried. With that said it took only an hour of this class to make me an advocate of Apple. I found that these computers are very user friendly and easy to work with. One thing that I was really impressed with was the program Photo Booth. While in class we were given the opportunity to “play around” on this program and I found that it was very entertaining as well as useful. As an educator I kept finding myself thinking “How can I use this in class?” That was pretty easy to figure out. In the program you can make little movies. I was thinking that as an opening week of school you can have students make a quick movie about them. In this movie, students could talk about themselves and basically introduce themselves to the class. How I pictured it working is once all the students have made their movie the whole class could watch them and get to know each other a bit more. Of course finding computers that have this program is very hard since most of the computers we have at school are not Apple which may pose a bit of a problem. This leaves me thinking: Is there a Photo Booth type of program for Microsoft that is as easy as the Apple version is?
Hey Andy,
ReplyDeleteI have on my computer "Windows Movie Maker." It claims it accepts digital or analog material, and that you can edit, and add titles & credits or special effects. Movies can be saved to your computer, the web, burned to a CD, or sent via email. I have not ever tried it, just reading from the program.