Oobleck Podcast

I decided to do my podcast on a science lesson that I taught when student teaching related to states of matter.

F- podcast

A- teachers

T- science experiment

P- to share Oobleck lesson and recipe with teachers

Script outline

Introduction to podcast
Materials needed
Goals of lesson
Discus before hand properties of liquid and solid
Let children experiment and observe Oobleck
Introduce new term suspension
Wrap up

I created a podcast video for my presentation that I am unable to download off my camera at this time.

http://www.wellesley.edu/ChildStudy/pages/oobleck.html (materials needed)
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical_Sciences/PHY0205.html (goals)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anothercodemonkey/2955870522/(picture kid experimenting with oobleck)

The overall experience of creating a podcast was actually fun once I had decided on the topic of the podcast. I am late in gettingn the assignment turned in and still it isn't complete. Not to excuse my tardiness but to explain that things have been out of my control to an extent with my computer crashing and trying to save everything on it that I need (the entire four years of my sons life in pictures and video, assignments) and multiple family members that have been hospitalized over the last week and a half. My mind hasn't exactly been honed in to classes.
I think that podcast are a great way for teachers to share their lesson ideas. If a podcast was thorough enough it could take the place of students actually doing an experiment hands on. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this but science is a subject that is weened out of classroom time due to teachers needing to meet the requirement of standardized test, in these instances podcast could be beneficial.

YERT: your environmental road trip

I subscribed to an Itunes podcast titled YERT:your environmental road trip. The episode that I viewed was the feature film trailer 1. I chose this episode as I was intrigued by the concept of the podcast. Here's what it was about, 3 people, 50 states, 1 year, and 1 planet to save. The video was informative, creatively shot in my opinion, facts and statistics were used, the idea ot travel the 50 states over the course of a year and document how various folks are approaching environmental sustainability. I was intrigued enough by the trailer that I want to see more podcast and the entire film. I felt that this was one of those videos that presented the issue of protecting our earth because it is the only one we have in a down to earth way that is educational. They use interviews with average people to help explain environmental issues.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=55843071&id=217704203

Sea Turtle Slideshare and Xmind part 2

Here is the slideshare presentation and mindmap that I created about Sea Turtles. I will incorporate this slideshare presentation into the lesson that I have on Sea Turtles which is what I based my mindmap on. The lesson is geared towards fifth grade but could also be geared down for younger grades.
I found the creation of the slideshare relatively easy provided I did it right. The subject matter was interesting and easy to get caught up in. I was also impressed with the Yahoo image search that sifted out the images that had creative common copyrights.
I apologize for having to submit my thoughts on the assignment separately my computer is having difficulties that have it shutting down whenever it feels like.

Sea Turtle Slideshare and Xmind

Sea Turtles A Species On The Edge

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North Pacific tropical gyre

This video isn't very long and the quality isn't fantastic but you are able to get the gist of it. Did you see the turtle?

The story of stuff

This video is about 20 minutes long but it is well worth taking the time to watch.

E Waste

I created this slideshare on E-waste as I felt that having some written information was beneficial to helping explain the e-waste epidemic. I did not add a lot of written information but what I thought was pertinent pieces of information.

E Waste

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China's Electronic Waste Village

I choose to describe this slideshow as it relates to a topic that I did a research paper on for Current Environmental Issues. I dont' feel that e-waste is an issue that one can fully understand with out the visual images provided in this slideshow what those in developing countries are enduring and risking by taking e-waste form developing countries. The toxicity of e-waste is extremely hazardous as there are 38 toxic chemicals involved in each piece of electronics. E-waste is sent to develooping countries not because they are better equipped to take care of the waste but because the environmental and health laws are so lax. The green name of "recycling" implies that e-waste is being handled in a proper manner but contrary to this belief workers are handling e-waste without the proper protection, using acid baths, open burning, and such primitive methods to extract the toxic materials then discarding the rest. The air, land, and water are severely contaminated.
The pictures chosen to create this slideshow depict the environment of e-waste "recycling"; emphasis, artistic unity, and genuineness in media are all principles of design that are used. I think that the overall presentation is effective and that the only improvement would be a better picture resolution.

China's Electronic Waste Village

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Composition 101

Now I am not sure that I have completely gotten the right composition to each photo.

Converging composition (bamboo draws eyes upward)

Shoot angles

Subject

Rule of 3rds

Subject



Background


Rule of thirds

Leading eye (ram's horn)

Subject

Frame

Subject

Leading eye

Before & After

I used the picnik program to alter my pictures.

For the deer picture I did some cropping first and then under the create tab I went to effects and vignette. This feature I may use again. I also went into the stickers and chose the iconian and pheasant. I am not sure that I would ever really use the sticker feature but for the sake of trying something new I gave it a shot.

For the flower picture I went into the create tab and sandbox, from here I chose hypnotic advanced mode overlay, fade 11.

For the crow picture I had to crop it first then went into create, effects, matte, then edit, colors and adjusted the saturation to 4 and the temperature to -8.

Prior to this assignment I have used picnik to crop photos but never explored the other options. Because I was a tiny bit familiar with the picnik program I had tried GIMP but found that I was getting no where fast and wanted to accomplish this assignment in a timely manner. Still lacking a bit there.

OpenOffice Demo

OpenOffice has been developed over twenty years making it a mature and reliable product. OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages, works on all common computers, stores all your data in an international open standard format, can read and write files from other office software, can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

http://www.screentoaster.com/watch/stVU9VR0BIR11YQFxaW1tfVl9R/openoffice_demo

Greenshot overkill

I was having some technical difficulties with downloading Greenshot, there is a 50/50 chance it was user error or my laptop being on the fritz. Anyhow, I got it figured out so I did screen shots of the various stages of using SlideShare. I have to say that I found SlideShare easy to use and feel that it will be a useful tool to have in my bag of tricks. I don't know that I would use Greenshot often but can at least say that I know how to use a screen capture tool and add it to a blog, website.

Let's Go On A Bear Hunt presentation upload

Lets Go On A Bear Hunt

This is the presentation that I uploaded to SlideShare. I created this in a Technology in the Classroom that I took a few semesters back.

Slideshare webware review

SlideShare Quick Tour - Summary of features & capabilities

SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations with individuals or the world. Businesses upload presentations to share their ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their business. Anyone can find presentations on topics that interest them then tag them, download them, or embed them into their presentations, blogs, & websites.

SlideShare is a great way to get your slides on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. SlideShare is the way to get the word out about your product or service, reach people who could not make it to your talk, or share lesson plans with other teachers.

Here are some of the things you can do on SlideShare

• Embed slideshows into your own blog or website
• Share slideshows publicly or privately
• Synch audio to your slides
• Market your own event on SlideShare
• Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interest
• Download the original file

SlideShare is free to join and easy to get started at www.slideshare.net

I liked SlideShare’s user friendliness for uploading my own documents and the convenience of searching thousands of presentations by topics of interest to you.

Here are the screen captures that show the process of using SlideShare