Multimedia+Production

media type="custom" key="13899432" "Found Poems" - I had created a podcast before in an undergrad edtech class, but I used Garageband for that project. I was excited to use Pod-o-matic for this assignment because I love applications that I can just access through the Web. A lot of times I can't or don't want to download programs to my personal PC. Using an online application means that I don't have to download anything, I can access my work at any machine, and handy-dandy embedding codes are posted with the published product. I had difficulty with recording my podcast. The first browser (Firefox) I used was running too slow for Pod-o-matic to record, so I switched to Google Chrome. I had success with actually getting the record button to work, but I then had trouble finding where my recordings went! Finally, I found all 4 of my attempts to record and voila! It took about 2 minutes after that to completely publish the podcast. I would use these on our class website, hopefully the majority being student made. I like the idea of having a weekly student poetry reading via Podcast throughout the year with episodes published on the library website. Listen to this podcast to learn how to write "found poems." Enjoy!

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 * Poster** - April is Poetry Month Glogster! I have made lots of posters in Glogster before, but I wanted to use this website again because I enjoy it so much! My twist for this project was creating a short video in Little Bird Tales. Students love authoring and publishing work. In Little Bird Tales, they have the chance to draw their own illustrations (or just upload images from a computer) and record their own voices narrating. I thought this was a great way to tie in other multimedia into the poster format! I had no troubles completing this portion of the project.

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 * Video** - I really struggled with this one. I've made movies before for various things using Animoto, which is really user friendly. I decided to make a book trailer for the young adult book, "Bird" by Ms. Elliott. This is a free-verse poem that tells of how one little boy uses art to deal with the deaths of his brother and grandpa. It's an amazing story! The book trailer is supposed to "hook" readers into wanting to read the book. I decided to use iMovie to create my movie. I found all of my images on Flickr using a Creative Commons search. Editing the film and adding images and sounds was not the problem. I struggled for hours trying to figure out how I could compress the movie enough to upload. I had no luck putting in on YouTube, but I finally succeeded in uploading it straight into the Wiki as a file. Pheww!


 * Reflection** - I really wanted to create a cohesive product for this module so all of my pieces focus on poetry. I think that students could do the same for a unit on a genre (or really anything) and have a mini-portfolio as a result. I like using different types of multimedia so students can see how visual images and graphics combine with sounds to make a more meaningful and captivating experience.