This weekend in class we were asked to design a classroom website. I have been contemplating creating a class website for a while, so this really interested me. I was initially contemplating creating a website on myteacherpages.com, however after John demonstrated how to use the templates on Google Sites, I was willing to give Google a shot.
I was able to quickly set up the site and arrange my pages in a way that made sense to me. Ideally, I would like to make some color and format changes before I am satisfied, but when I initially started working on those tasks, I quickly grew frustrated with the many different components that go into all of the different parts of the website. I wanted to change the header color on my website from a blue and white color to a red and gray/black to match our school colors, but there were so many parts and I was finding it difficult to make sure that my shades of red matched from one part to the next, so I decided to simply go with the colors in the template.
Other than that and some minor formatting concerns, I found Google Sites fairly easy to work with and I was able to create a fairly extensive website in a relatively short time. I plan to continue working on this and keep it up for the rest of this school year.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
YouTube Video
Last class we were shown how to take clips from YouTube, edit them, and then splice them together in Windows Movie Maker to create our own conglomeration of clips. I had decided to skip this initially due to difficulties with finding Windows Movie Maker, however I did return to the project simply out of curiosity.
I ended up taking several clips from The Big Bang Theory, a CBS sitcom, and splicing them together to create a tribute to Sheldon, one of the main characters. I enjoyed editing the clips and developing my collection, however I experienced difficulty when I tried to upload them to YouTube. My initial difficulty arose in the fact that my video was 16 minutes and 47 seconds long and I didn't realize that YouTube has a 15 minute time limit. I then had to return to my editing process and cut my clips back further to make sure my video was under the time limit. This was slightly frustrating because if I had known about the time limit I would have planned for it when I created my collection.
I have since re-visited my video and I have uploaded it to my YouTube account. I hope you enjoy my Tribute to Sheldon.
I then continued to work with the video and edited out a clip on the Best Number Ever to use in my math class.
I have also used my new YouTube movie snatching expertise to capture and share a Jack-in-the-Box commercial to use in math class when we talked about ratios and why order was important. The students really enjoyed it and it was fun to add a little humor to math class.
I ended up taking several clips from The Big Bang Theory, a CBS sitcom, and splicing them together to create a tribute to Sheldon, one of the main characters. I enjoyed editing the clips and developing my collection, however I experienced difficulty when I tried to upload them to YouTube. My initial difficulty arose in the fact that my video was 16 minutes and 47 seconds long and I didn't realize that YouTube has a 15 minute time limit. I then had to return to my editing process and cut my clips back further to make sure my video was under the time limit. This was slightly frustrating because if I had known about the time limit I would have planned for it when I created my collection.
I have since re-visited my video and I have uploaded it to my YouTube account. I hope you enjoy my Tribute to Sheldon.
I then continued to work with the video and edited out a clip on the Best Number Ever to use in my math class.
I have also used my new YouTube movie snatching expertise to capture and share a Jack-in-the-Box commercial to use in math class when we talked about ratios and why order was important. The students really enjoyed it and it was fun to add a little humor to math class.
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