Week of November 6

The new skill I acquired this week was learning to use MovieMaker. I was surprised at how easy it is to use. The most difficult part was adding the narration to correspond with the pictures. That is probably due to the fact that I had to use Audacity and still wasn't completely confident with it. However, I was proud of the finished product! We do a unit on land in the curriculum I use and discuss the three kinds of rocks, so the podcast and movie I created are things that I could actually use in my classroom (assuming one day I have a computer there!). In addition, MovieMaker could be used to create slide shows of class projects, field trips, etc. I think the program is user-friendly enough that younger elementary students could use it to make a movie of their own.